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posted 12-05-2003 10:02 AM         

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Ranger may have to go to a trainer for 6 weeks! Not my idea! He would go for 6 weeks, and normally we would go every 5 and work with him, so he knows to respond with us too, only we just happen to be too far for this, and therefore couldn't! (I think I may try anyway!) I know we want him trained well, but we have already started at home, and he has different hand signals for each command. I don't want this trainer changing all of that, as he is doing really good! Six weeks is an awfully long time for me to have to part with my puppy . He may be a nuisance sometimes, but he is getting SO much better!

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posted 12-05-2003 11:45 AM         

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Hi, Perhaps you could talk to the trainer, and inform him or her that you have begun working with him already. Or because they are a trainer they will know how to handle that situation anyway. I would think, you must feel pretty confident with this traner, to be sending your baby away for that long of a period. Did you hear that this person was the best! or what? Susan

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posted 12-05-2003 12:12 PM         

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Who is it that is pushing for taking him to the trainer? Believe me, I know what an agonizing decision it is!

Jamiya

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posted 12-05-2003 01:05 PM         

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I've never heard of people sending their dogs off to get trained until I came to this board. I'm not saying I disagree, I don't, it's just that I can't imagine anyone but me training mine.
When I hear Jamiya saying about 'breaking her spirit' and things I just feel that's how my dog would come back. I want a well behaved dog but I also want him to hold onto his personallity.
I've just signed up for a 9 week course where I take Floob for 2 hours, one night a week. He's already doing alot of 'commands' so anything they teach me different to how he already knows it I'll ignore.
I think with training courses you just need to take from them what bits you personally want them to learn. Like I never want my dog to give me his paw, so I'll skip that bit.
When someone else is training your dog how can you be sure you're gonna like the dog that returns home to live by your rules?

As you may be able to tell, I'm struggling with the whole 'training' thing lol.

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posted 12-05-2003 02:10 PM         

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I think 6 weeks is too long for a puppy to be sent away for training, otherwise he may never figure it out at home! That's why I like those where you take your dog every night for a few weeks, or something like that. I know Ranger still needs a little help with stay and stuff, but 6 weeks?!! He picks up commands faster than that! That is almost 2 months! There was someone else we were thinking about, who would come to our house, which I like, because I think Ranger would pay more attention, since there wouldn't be new sites and smells and such. As for why we like the place (aside from distance and length!), it was where his mom went, and she is the "perfect" dog! I just wish it was closer, then maybe it would be different!

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posted 12-05-2003 04:04 PM         

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Where is this place, and what are their credentials?

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posted 12-06-2003 01:34 AM         

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I have to agree i have never heard of sending a puppy away to be trained.

I must admit i think there is no better trainer than the owners themselves training a puppy or a dog creates that bond between animal and owner.

I trained my dogs myself as trainers dont teach anything different to what i teach them..

Only time i would have a trainer in is if there was an agression problem.

But each owner has there own idea of whats best for there animals.
keep us posted on his progress

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posted 12-06-2003 09:35 AM         

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Maybe I am mixed up, but I think Ranger is going to be trained as a hunting dog. If thats the case, many people send their dogs off to learn to be retrievers. I agree with Nik though, I couldn't do it. My dogs have never been in a kennel and would be bewildered to be thrust into that situation. I also think many of the kennels training hunting dogs still use old methods which I am not partial to. If I had a dog I wanted trained for a specific job or sport I would want to do the training with guidance from a trainer, but I wouldn't turn my dog over to someone else. I am also the mother who hid outside my daughters school room window for the first few weeks of school, so I'm not the most trusting person. Plus I truely believe that you gain the most in a relationship with your dog by doing the training yourself, and in my opinion(JMO) if you are THAT interested in a specific sport, you really should also want to spend the time learning what your dog has to learn.

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posted 12-06-2003 10:24 AM         

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We aren't sure if he is going to be trained in hunting, we want to do the basics first, and then we DEFINATELY want to do agility, so we are really just thinking about the hunting. I also think that it is best to have a dog trained by the owner, but I am kind've being overruled by others in the family (although if I use some of these arguments, I may not!). I think that if you go to a training class, you should go with the dog, and be the one training, the trainer just telling you how to do it. Ranger is being trained pretty well at home, and is getting a lot better than a bichon frise (sp?) we know who went to training.

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