Thoughts on my new puppy's personality? - Page 2

Sorry if I misled you guys, he's with my during the day but is being crate trained, which means he sleeps in his crate at night. No way is he gonna be allowed on the bed.

he needs to be away from you (on his own with you out of sight) during the day for a couple of hours
he will be more attentive / people orientated :)

being hyper vigilant about all details of the dog's upbringing might be productive to you as an individual - but not necessarily good for the entire breeding population.

If everyone worked extremely hard providing perfect environments - the result would be that dogs NEED perfect environments.

If his parents weren't great dogs with a LESS THAN PERFECT ubringing than they shouldn't have been bred.

therefore, my thought would be not to sweat the small stuff.
so what, if he's a little more independent than perfect!? So much the better for him; he'll miss you less when isolated from you.

etc...etc...

emphasis should be placed upon the really important stuff (like not biting people, not attacking small animals, not destroying your house, not eating strange objects...etc....)

as far as his personality goes- accept it as is - and worry less about his possible lack of perfection.

Alirod,
You've only had the pup for 4 days, give him a chance to settle in.  In a couple of weeks you'll see his true personality.  He sounds really nice, good luck with him.

Jim

Slamdunc makes a good point... the pup has just gone thru the largest adjustment he may ever have to make in his life.  Be patient and give him some time.  Plan some fun training exercises to help the bonding... There's a great article on the Mohnnwiese site about free heeling training with very young pups.    www.grammozis.de/  It seems so simple when you see them do it. 

  Plan specific times each day to work with your pup, so that he has 100% of your attention for that time.  While the tendency toward being independent is there it can be modified by the effort you make

You might try exsposing him to a child,that will usually get a pups attention and is fun for both,you will also see its natural behavior, he might start herding or who knows what, kids are not as intimating and they will relax a little.

Thanks guys! I don't think he's less than perfect, I think he's great, I would just be a bit worried if he grew up and became v. dominant/alpha. Although that's really under my control isn't it...He's an absolute legend, Ill post some pics soon.

It's hard to say anything since you've only had him 4 days but you're experience sounds a lot like my experience with my Czech girl when we got her at 12 weeks.

Very confident, nothing backed her down, friendly but independent.

I did some reading and found that this independence is something you find in the Czech lines and I've had no trouble training her or with her desire to please!

I can't say I wanted a dog who was a lap dog or a velcro dog myself but I did sometimes wonder about that indepence, wonder if she cared if I was there or not, up until the first time I took her to the vet.

We had a very awkward vet trip (the tech was scared of her and didn't know what she was doing) and so I ended up holding her head.  She very quietly licked my hand and looked at me with the most trusting eyes, a pure expression of "I don't like this Mom and it upsets me but you're here so it's going to be okay" and I knew then that for all the rest of the times she was Miss Independence, she was 'my dog' and I was her pack leader in whom she trusted.

Sounds like a fine pup, everyone seems to have hit on all the good points.
Give him time and begin socializing him little by little.
Build a strong bond but understand he may always have an independant aloof attitude about him.
This is not a bad thing.
There are so many things you can do to build a bond between the two of you.
Hand feeding
Grooming
Talking
The right kind of touching
Face on face contact
So many more.
P.M me if you like.

He sounds great to me.

Moons.