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"GBSD Don't Run Away When Off Leash"
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Tony, our rarest colouration 'Black Point'
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Training Your Weimaraner. Games To Play With Your Weimaraner
As soon as you purchase your puppy, send me the name you have chosen. I will begin the process of teaching the puppy its name, each day, during our play sessions together.
Please take some time on the Internet to read about Weimaraners and their special gifts, needs and traits.
Training your Weimaraner can be very rewarding and a lot of fun too. Our puppies learn just about everything in five minutes.
My suggestions about training your Weimaraner are not the usual technical training tips, but suggestions about having fun with your puppy. You can learn how to train a puppy by buying a book. Here is a way to teach your puppy to play with you and have fun that is rewarding for you and your puppy.
Start playing "Hide and Seek" with your puppy in your home. Hide treats for your puppy under a cushion located just a foot or two from his nose. When he finds it, reward your puppy with the hidden treat. Use bacon bites bits or a weiner. Play the game until your puppy begins to look forward to the next session with excitement.
Next, hide a favorite toy behind a cushion. Reward the find with the same treat. Establish that the idea that the game is about finding the toy that is rewarded with ample praise and the same treat as before. Sometime later, hide yourself. Always reward and praise your puppy for a job well done. Your dog has special tracking abilities and loves to pay this game. They love to have a purpose and playing 'Hid and Seek' is the best of all games for your puppy to play.
How to hide yourself.
First, start by sitting yourself ( You are number ONE) with your spouse or partner ( who is number TWO), a few feet apart in your living room.
Person ONE calls your puppy by name, but only to get its attention and to draw its attention to a bacon bit treat. Person TWO who is holding the puppy guides the puppy a few feet across the floor to its reward repeating 'Find ONE'. Repeat for a few sessions until the game is understood. Don't call the puppy again once it sees ONE and the treat.
In later sessions, make the distance greater. Eventually sit around a corner, but still not very far away. ONE calls the puppy by name but only to get it started and to give it a hint as to your location and TWO repeats the command 'Find ONE'. The goal is not really to teach the puppy to come when called, but to teach it to find ONE on command. In later sessions, and as soon as possible, eliminate the step of calling the puppy to give it a hint. As the game becomes better understood, you puppy will become a dogged tracker and keep searching until person ONE has been found upstairs, downstairs or in the closet.
Variations on the game can be accomplished by hiding objects. Your puppy is a natural retriever. Start as above with a ball or a toy. Play with the puppy and the toy. Play and say the name of the toy until it is understood and recognized. ONE holds the puppy and TWO places the toy a few feet away. ONE commands 'find (or fetch) toy'. Reward successful retrieves. Expand the game moving the toy to make it harder and harder to find. Teach the puppy to sit and stay until you issue the 'Fetch' command'. If you have any trouble, you can very the game by using a treat as the retrievable object, rather than the toy. Common sense can be applied to vary the games infinitely.
The goal is to move the game to the outdoors. We play with our Weims by having TWO covers the dog's head in a jacket while ONE hides in a bush. The game can be expanded to yards, many yards, hundreds of yards then to half kilometres and more. When ONE is found, TWO hides and the game goes back and forth. Play the game with your children. Teach them how to hide. Teach your puppy or your dog to find your children by name. Have two persons hiding. Teach you puppy to find only one by name, and teach it to ignore the other. Hide and Seek is the most rewarding of games for your puppy and for you. Good luck.