Slow maturing lines - Page 1

Hello everyone, I would  like to ask if anyone is familiar with bloodlines that produce slow maturing offspring. This is not a post to bash anyone or any bloodlines, this is to collect useful information for myself. I have a now 15 month old showline female that is a total spaz (sp). She has the attention span of a flea and very little focus. I did not breed her and only got her at 8 months but she just can't seem to focus. She is very high energy with very good prey drive; hence she is all over the place, not a real tough girl, but handles stressful things well and bounces back pretty fast. I just can't seem to keep her focus or attention very long. My 4 month old female pup has more attention and focus than she does. Does anyone have any ideas on how to build  attention and/or focus. She is a VA Karats Ulko daughter, and a VA Vierenheimi Nick and VA Ghandi v Arlett granddaughter.  Anybody out there with offspring from these lines maturing slowly??

Thank you in advance,

Debbie

I think some dogs are just "airheads."  Earlier this year I had the chance to work several puppies from the same litter till they were 4-5 months old.  One was a major airhead, all over the place, no focus, one was better but not great, and the other 4 were all very focused even at that age.  Of course you can improve on that with training and maturity helps but it may her be her personality.

Hey Debbie,

Let her see you train the focused dogs, puppies for awhile.... Do not train her for awhile. Let her only watch.  Give it about a month and start short training sessions with her (5-10 minutes). Do not allow her to play with any other dogs for a month. Shorten her feedings. Use the treats to make her come to you and want to train. It sounds to me that you do not have her attention. I had a male that I had to do like this. He is focused now!

DiAngelo

GOOD ADVICE   Di Angelo....some dogs require a different way of getting their attention..I personally dont like that kind of pup or dog..I am use to quick pups with ultimate attentions, I would not rebreed into that line.   Once I had a male pup that I bred and named Wally.  You know why?

I didn't like Wally..He was all over the place, high drive, bite happy, and I was worn out and short fused when I tried to work or imprint him..   so I told everyone at the Spring Valley  Schutz club , where we trained, that he came from Walmart.   lol

Six month later i sold him to a police lady from Houston City Pd and he turned out to be one bad apprehensions K-9.

Lesson learned:   NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER.  SAME THING APPLIES TO A GERMAN SHEPHERD.

LEARN TO THINK LIKE A DOG, AND ACT LIKE A DOG. YOU MUST BE ABLE TO SENSE AND READ DOG BEHAVIOUR.

YR

 Some times you  just have to let them mature plain and simple, have you talked to the breeder is this a trait of the breeding? The club i just quit this  fall there training director was notories for pushing pups to hard way to fast one of the other members in the club bought a male from a breeder  who told them at the time of purchase that these pups were slow maturing and that around 16 to 18 months they really start to come on, now knowing this the handler and training director were frustrated because the dog would not show tons of prey drive or aggresion(training director was fixated with puppies showing aggresion) so long story short at 11 monyhs they were tieing it short to a back tie flanking the pup till it pissed it,s self there idea was well it,s not going to work so we will experiment on it... so I bought it and took it home just to stop the crap... so please take your time with the young dog. 

p.s. Why did you state you havent bred her she is to young to breed in the first place. 

I have a 6 month old here who is very immature for her age.  Sire is out of Orbit Huhnegrab and Karat's Olly, mother is out of Baru Haus Yu.  She actually has brilliant focus in her obedience, though. It's her daily mannerisms and her growth that are late blooming. Sounds like your "spaz" puppy just needs to be kept busy and have her mind excercised. What ar eyou doing with her? SchH, pet, other?

Thank you all for your comments and advice. I will not give up on this girl, I know she has potential so I will give her plenty of time to mature. In the meantime I will try what diangelo71 said and take it slow.  I guess she is what she is and I should not compare her, she will blossom in her own time. 

Bob thank you for reminding me not to rush her because I may ruin her. All of this can wait for her to mature more. I spose I was not as clear as I thought on the breeding thing, what I meant was that I am not the breeder of this female,  I  got her at 8 months of age.

Respectfully,

Debbie

For increasing the attention span and focus sometimes I use Bach flower remedies. They do not do miracles (the way you would expect them to), however they work and give you an advantage and a clue where to start...

Take a look at http://www.bachflower.com/Pets.htm. Make a mixture of up to 5 remedies (the less you use the faster it works) and give her 4 drops 4 times a day. Expect to start see the difference after the first week. After 10 days try to work some bits in training with your girl (same bits that you have tried before).

Good luck!

PS: Rescue remedy spray has always worked wonders for me, my family and my dogs...