What do you think (HONESTLY!) - Page 5

Rik:
I will.. Thank you. I do believe I will a busy bee when she gets here. But what to do till then lol!?! (I'll stay busy but still it seems like it will take forever!)
I pick her up in June and she's due in 5-6 days.... This will be the longest week ever! lol

Thanks again,
Tiffany 

Honestly? What Rik says - Galant, I do know,great sire and excellent pedigree, mother I really can't say anything good or bad as I simply don't know her or her lines. I think I recognized (kinda heard of them somewhere at some point) about one or maybe 2 dogs at most, in her pedigree. Can't have an opinion about something I do not know.

Best of luck with your pup and be patient.

Adi:
Thank you so much and I will try. It's hard to be patient when your excited about something. :)

I best be going to bed soon... its 2 am here and sleep makes time fly!

Have an amazing day/night...

Tiff

Get some friggin' sleep already, you impatient freak.

Honestly, patience is what you or any new owner of a small pup needs. Having asmall pup and a small child of mine I can tell you that living with them and rasing a pupand a smallboy is not all that different, in fact it's eerily and scarily very similar.

Of course, that lasts only for about a year, then it's different, as pups grow and mature much faster.

With all my bullshit talk about new puppy owners that I post here and all the crap and "advice" that I give, I have made some mistakes in rasing my puppy that now, in hindsight I see, but then I didn't - because of impatience.

For example- the pup would not bark for shit, until what seems to me - forever. He was 5, or was it 6 months old, maybe 7 - still no barking at the field trainng with a decoy. Wouldn't bark for the life of me. No  matter what I try:
withold the bowl o his food, till I get some noise, any noise, then mark and praise. All I got is a whine - giiiiive me the food, dammit.

Bark for the stick, for the rag, for the ball, for this for that - allhe did was his "silent" force, the drive is there, just not vocalized.

I got ONE bark ONCE for a bowl of food and ONE bark for a squrell in the backyard. Then, at the end of 7 months, a light bulb or a switch in his head went off and he is a deep, from the chest, good barker now. It used to drive me nuts that he would do his silent killer thing.

He is still not an excessive barker right now by any means (just a few weeks over a year old), but he barks deep and on cue when the situation warrant - at a helper etc...

What am I trying to say here? Learn patience, what most lack in this instant gratification society these days and you and your new best buddy will do great.

I am, for the most part, patient when it comes to training. I know that I have to adjust to the puppy to make sure that I give her sound foundation and a solid footing in what I want her job to be (her case we are aiming for Schutzhund) Everyone makes mistakes with every dog, i.e no ones perfect, hopefully its never the same mistake twice. Every pup puts you in a new situation. 

The story about your boy and his bark is a nice example of how the individual dog grows and matures. (Atlas is a talker, always has been always will be! lol) However your male is different, and my female will probably be different as well. Its the molding around the pup to its strengths that make the trainer great. And that can take, well, time.

I admit, when it comes to the announcements its killer to wait. But when she gets here it will be a step by step process. I will be knee deep with activities and great and glorious fun! Me teach and learning what she can do and us becoming a great team. Its amazing what puppies can do... :)

Every pup is a learning experience, needless to say I will NEVER consider myself a pro. I will always need to learn a thing or two. I will always need to have patience, for with what I want to do without patience you will get no where.

I'm not sure about kids. I can't have any so I'll definetly take your word for it :)

I do really need to go to bed! lol...

Have an amazing night

From my own -limited, limited!- experience I can say that learning with a Galant pup has been for me.  I'd never done Schutzhund or even heard about it before I got my girl and with a different dog I might not have stayed with the work!

One of the things I love about my girl is she is very attentive and responsive to me as her handler.  I very rarely have to give her a hard correction, even if she's in the 'red zone' of protection and she has never stepped out of line with me.  On the flip side, she has never, ever backed down from a helper and has given a very strong, confident civil side in her work.  It is definitely not 'all about the sleeve' with her, which has been a wonderful learning tool for me, to pick up on that nuance between a 'civil' dog and a 'prey' dog.

People talk a lot about hard dogs and everyone has a different definition of a hard dog.  My feeling is that my Galant girl is extremely confident and not about to take crap from anyone but her bond to me means I don't have to also fear her coming up the leash at me because her head is always clear in her work.

eta:  Now that I've had coffee and can think coherently!  What I mean to say is, in that post I explain why I wouldn't breed her but on the other side of the coin I couldn't ask for a better partner out on the Schutzhund field, through all 3 phases.

This should be a good puppy because Glant is one the best producer of working line czeck dogs.
one of the best thing about Galant as a stud is that he produces offsprings very close to himself,meaning not only he can produce dogs with working drives but also his look and structure and strong pigmentation.Also another good thing i know about Galant is that his owners Euro Sport have never really bread him to a weak female.so i am sure there is something about this female.have a nice one.

Thank you everyone for your responses. I feel that my choice was good. Everyones insight has helped a lot! Thank you all so much! Still keeping myself busy! Lol. Tiff.

Galant puppies!!!! Sooooo jealous!  Should be lovely!

Hi Tiffany!

Congrats on your new pup, her daddy is related to my mutts, so she'll be the best mutt you've ever owned!!

Keep us informed!

Paula