building grip and drive - Page 1

hi wanted to know any advice on building drive and grip on my young dog hes 5 months and will be 6 months coming on the 25.

maybe show me in the right way on doing things. 

just be very careful. Whoever you take advice from. If a person is not proficient and expert you can easily ruin a grip\\so be careful whom you take advice from


cheers

99% of the time grips and drives are genetic whoever tells you that he can build grips and drives are money makers. It may appear good for the time being but with a serious helper the grip will fail again. Also building grips and drives where they are lacking genetically is avery long ardous job and requires much work on the dog.

Here's my 2 cents take it for what it's worth. There's a fine line between what a dog has and what you can make. I've seen dogs that don't have it get it through training. Basically they took their anxiety, insecurities and all the bad karma you don't want in a dog and find relief in the desired  behavior causing a dog that has none of the desirable traits to acquire desirable traits.

My thoughts are you can take a good dog and improve through training and offer this video of a puppy similar in age to yours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5yNLkASu7E

Grips are genetic...that being said....just play with your pup...targeting is the objective at this time.

I've just spent 3 days with Bernard Flinks at our Club, my dog has a very good genetic grip, however that said it's gone a bit wrong over the last year.

Bernard did a lot of work, but a good gentic grip can be screwed up. Lots of K9's have excellent genetic grips yet when deployed revert to nature, slightly different subject.

Have a look about for a used DVD on Building Drive, Grip and Focus, that will give you something to build on with a very young dog.

regards


Ronin

Becareful on puppies at that stage he is still teething, playing tug will cause either dental problem or be chewy . wait till he is finished teething .One way to find out is use a white rag or towel and when you don't see anymore blood give it few more weeks .play with soft tug with him as he gets better use harder and bigger you should be fine as long as it is done on pry drive .AS building drive frustration from missing the bite will build drive .Some trainer like ball and some will prefer tug .Tug has lower drive in dogs but will teach them how to target  . ball build more drive and usually recommended on older and trained dog