Guest Anthorien Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Hey everyone, I'm looking at doing tracking with my puppy and am wondering at what age people have started training? I'm not sure whether to start soon or hold off until she's older. Thanks for any information! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 The sooner, the better. Julie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nekhbet Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 encouragement can never start too early, in fact the young pups are better at learning then older dogs at times. Start hiding food around in boxes etc and get that nose working! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erinonthefarm Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 My puppy has been tracking with us since about 14 weeks and with his breeder before that. We started with hiding his food and getting him to find it. Now we use a ball in a sock and he is fairly reliable over a couple of hundred m at 4 1/2 months, the hardest thing for me being a newbie is reading him but it is amazing how good he is for such a baby and I put it down to that he was conditioned from an early age to use his nose. However his breeder has only taken up tracking in the past four years and successfully tracked both her show dogs as adults to titles. My biggest hurdle was motivating our puppy who has a very high food drive to be excited about his toy instead, I spent a long time making a big deal of playing with his toy while he watched and it didn't take too long for him to value it more highly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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