Great video. I just got our gsdxbm pup at 2 days from 6 weeks old. The situation was what it was and the mom was ready to move on. The pup was super mature and I went into the pup meeting not %100 I was gonna take a 6 week pup. This pup was very social with us so he won me over and glad he did. What a wonderful pup he's turning out to be amazing and smart. I can already tell I have imprinted on him, he is happy as can be. I said the same thing you are to my wife. When a pup is ready you will know, 2 weeks of bad behavior with litter mates can't always be positive. I was in another trainers live stream and mentioned the age of my pup I just got and wow did I get called every single bad pet parent name in the book by the chat and trainer. I have 3 months off work for this dog to dedicate to him. It's not like I would just throw a 6 week old in a crate for 6 hrs. Ppl are soooooo damn fast to judge . Your info is one of the only one I trust.
Thanks so much for these vids, I'm constantly learning new techniques and they are working well with my 18 week working line gsd. She's still a pup but coming along amazingly.
Can you do a series showing a puppy first brought to you for training or some type of issue. Then do a every other day update or something until the puppy leaves
My just shy of 8 week purebred GS is wonderful. I’m learning a lot..a bit panicked as sleep deprivation sets in. He came from a big litter, 6 brothers, four sisters, mom, dad, and a family of humans. I thought it was unfair to cram him in a cage at night and ignore him (it’s a big change, huge change!) pre-8 weeks, so, I got the heartbeat stuffed pup and throw my pillows next to the crate at night and sleep next to it, or try to, he calmed right down and went to sleep. We’ve had..three nights together, each one the time between waking and yelping to go out is getting longer. (He is learning to sucker me into going out where he just flops down in the grass/clover like, “hey, thanks for the change of scenery..”..lol..) We’ve only had one poop accident, I’ll blame the worming meds and my inattention to that. He still doesn’t “get” the leash, or..his name, or..any commands, he’s too scattered. However, he loves to pull on the tug, he’s very into playing with that. He chases without giving up, keeps pulling if you maintain eye contact and pull it close to your face, but doesn’t get “drop it” either. I’m not going to get “correction happy” as he has a couple more days to even get to be 8 weeks old. My house and yards are minefields of stuff I don’t want chewed or ingested, so when I’m not directly supervising him, he’s in the very large wire crate.
Only thing that threw me off in this video was Haz said he “sold” the runt to the kennel tech. Love will make u do crazy things. Your in a facility with some amazing dogs and trainers and the tech gets suckered into the runt lol.
I have a beautiful sable working line GSD. At 10 weeks old she sure does get bitey when over stimulated or tired. Is the pressure force normal? It's not soft. I have always been told to get a gsd pup to play with other pups to help teach the pup bite inhibition. Is that true?
I have an 8 week mali pup and I’m curious on how I should manager her harassing my Pomeranian (who likes to be left alone). Right now I’m just ensuring they both have there own space and keeping them separate aside from parallel walks!
