Tony, our rarest colouration 'Black Point' with Carol's daughter Isabelle.

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 #One cover the dog's head in a jacket while # TWO hides in a bush. The game can be expanded to yards, many yards, hundreds of yards then to half kilometre and more. When #TWO is found, #ONE 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. A later development in the game is to use an article of clothing for your dog to sniff to show your dog which person to find.

Hide and Seek is the most rewarding of games for your puppy and for you. Good luck.

Exercise Your Dog And Yourself

Take a look at this innovative 'Dog Powered Scooter'. A GBSD needs to run 'off leash' to get proper exercise. The Dog Powered Scooter is a great way to have fun with your GBSD and provide it with a proper amount of cardiovascular exercise. Exercising your GBSD with a Dog Powered Scooter is especially useful if you have limited time or locations where you can exercise your GBSD dog 'off leash'. The Dog Powered Scooter allows you to peddle and your dog to pull and run at speeds sufficient to give both of you a proper cardiovascular workout un 25 to 30 minutes. Its so much fun, you will likely stay out longer, go farther and exercise your dog more often. Check the Dog Scooter web site to see the four different styles available.
(Photo provided by http://www.dogpoweredscooter.com/).

Youtube video. Dog Powered Scooter

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"Pointers, hounds and retrievers will run off to hunt because hunting is the most important thing in their lives; the Weimaraner stays with you when off leash because playing with you is the most wonderful activity it can share with the people it loves."