So, Which of you breeders here on the forum...

[Achielles UD]

I was curious as to which breeders here on the forum implement the "Bio Sensor Puppy Program" with your litters?

I am a believer in the program after seeing puppies/dogs that have been exposed to the program and seeing how well they have done.

It may be a while before I am ready for another dog after losing Hella today. But, I am curious as to who here does the program?

[WarrantsWifey]

Oooooh, what is that???

[carmspack]

I've been doing this before it had a name. Would describe this and people would look like I had grown a third eye or something.
Carmen
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[carmspack]

just thougth of this.
You can overstimulate the pup also. You have to have a feeling for something , not just follow steps as in a recipe or think that if a bit is good then more is better.
Carmen
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[Lucy Dog]

could someone explain what this is?

[KZoppa]

Paul its basically starting all the pups on experiences and socialization with surfaces, various toys, sounds, etc. they use it a lot with pups who are supposed to go into a military working dog program or service dog training. More and more breeders have begun using it to help begin socialization for different surfaces, sights, sounds. . .

[Lucy Dog]

Sounds like something all breeders should be doing in one form or another.

[carmspack]

neural stimulation to create pathways in the brain .

In the earliest part of the pups life , within the first 2 to 3 weeks , you can give gentle stimulation which will make the dog more physically competent , able to jump tall buildings ! , when it is older.

So lets say in the first few days you would craddle the newborn pup in your hand.
You would incline the dog somewhat head down , raise to head in different degrees of elevation , rotate dog right to left , slowly . Here you are working on the inner ear centre of balance.
Hold dog and repeat this time with bellly side up.

Take you finger and gently trace the topline from tip of nose , gentle touch all along the spine , down the tail .
Take you finger and trace with gentle touch foot , leg, across shoulder , to leg and foot on other side. Do the same for hind limbs.

Cup pup so you apply gentle pressure. Open hand so no pressure .

Dip paw into slightly different temperatures of water , warm to cold .

Engage olfactory bit of brain by taking a cloth and introducing new scents . At this time dog can't hear, dog can't see, but they can smell , and they can feel temperature, pressure , and "righting reflex" so that they find balance.

The cloth could have been in your armpit, that will give them something to think about, the cloth could have a drop of vinegar, a dop of coffee , just something to stimulate the brain.

You have to have some sensitivity -- like a massage can be good , or irritating .

When I did it was because the experience in a normal whelping room was totally not natural . I was looking at the experience a pup would have in a den . The depression in the earth would be irregular so pups would roll , would have to be able to right themselves. Temperatures would change, heat held when dam in the den , cool when she left , changes in temperature from sunlit day to cooler evening/night.
Dam would vigorously lick to clean the pups, which would roll around . Dam would come back to the nest with exciting scents of the fields she had been in , or with scent of the rest of the pack members she had recent contact with. In any case the mother would bring home some of the outside world on her . Just more brain stimulation the a sweet pup lying under the heat lamp on an even floor.

I wrote something for dogs in canada magazine in the 1970's on this.

And then they call it bio sensor.

Carmen
Carmspack Working German Shepherd Dogs

[carmspack]

bio sensor typically is used long before toys. Neural connections are formed in the first 14 days to 21 days -- pre- social , pre eyes open and pre walking around
Carmen
Carmspack Working German Shepherd Dogs

[carmspack]

early mild stimulation and changes in environment are controlled stressors to which the body responds to. You are developing an immune response. This is the development of a competent - central nervous system - brain / spinal cord.

You can prepare the digestive system and the acceptance of a wide variety of food, the dog is afterall somewhat of an opportnistic carne-omnivore . Give the mother changes in her diet , which will "flavour" the milk, introduce different compounds .
Now did the military think of that --hmm?
Less "allergies" -- less picky . The digestive system , is essentially a second brain and is the enteric nervous system.
There is a constant chemical communication between brain and gut .
Animals fed in a calm environment , pleasure and satisfaction of eating are bathed with serotonin. They tend to be good-doers.
Animals fed in a stressful , rushed environment have an exchange of adrenaline , and they tend to have digestive problems and are poor-doers, not evil-doers, poor doers, unthrifty.
Temperamentally sound dogs tend to have no problems in either the central or enteric nervous system.
You can't seem to get away -- everything is connected . No problem exists in isolation. Wholistic.
OMMM

Carmen (good night)
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