I'd really like to learn what other breeder's pick

IF ANY HAVE THE GUTS...

 

getin' near full moon, y'all. Sorry. No offense intended, BH

 

Berno I’m in the navy. You don’t need kid gloves to deal with me. Besides, I grew up playing online games. You’re not topping that without getting a perma banned.

 

Well, insert multiple seaman jokes here.

It's mandatory. Sorry

Are you a MA?

 

thanks for playin' along, BH

 

I wouldn't dare stalk you without right AND left full size competition sleeves, BH

 

That will get you bit before I know what's happening.

 

Berno I'll let you know how I began my correspondence with a lot of breeders. Go on working dog. Choose a big time event, like BSP. Look at who the breeders with dog involved are and message them. You'll grow your circle. Or find websites of breeders you like and contact them.

 

got a better scent imprint vid, winners?

 

Yes

 

I know I saw a better one somewhere, but can't seem to find it now

little bitty pups

 

come to think of it, maybe it wasn't scent training? I think maybe they were clicker training pups just to stick their heads in the pipe? They were little. Pre 49 day/ 7wk

Anybody?

 

That's it. Open plumbing detection. It's the next big thing. Don't tell anyone.

 

kinda like this, but head in the pipe w/ food slot bottom rear

and no whining...

 

may have been a live find sar thing? I don't remember?

pups looked good. can't find it now. should have bookmarked...

 

I've never clicker trained anything. Gonna dip my toes a little.

 

Clickers are one of those things I wrote off as part of the positive only crap. Boy was I wrong. It's highly effective. It also opened me up to self discovery training. I could use voice markers, but they are less precise(for me.)

 

I think this is what your looking for Berno. You can tell Valor is a different type of dog than the ones in the first video you posted.

Here's Valor's first imprinting session. He's 13 weeks. Birch, clove and anise oil cocktail. It's the first time for the handler as well

They are both learning this together.

 

Feeling is mutual!

 

the vid I saw was a litter and they were little. 2 people, one w/ clicker and stopwatch, the other with treats. I think maybe they did it on a table top. Pups were tiny.

 

This is the one where he explains the theory

 

That's a good video. There was one where he showed this in action with a client dog. I don't think its on youtube. If I find it, I'll ask him to put it there so I can post it.

 

 

There are far better imprinting videos imo. How about some video of you and Igor?

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lookin' for LITTLE PUPPY vids. Pre day 49, if possible. Noteworthy all the little puppy vids are dsd? Maybe them folks are more into early imprinting than gsd folk? curious? anyway, this here's pete and re-pete. I'm not sure which one's which? I keep getting them mixed up?

DOB november 16 (10 days old)

they seem to have very dark undercoats? I'll need an extra pair of hands to get a foto

 

What are you trying to imprint that isn't on those channels? One is GSDs, one is everything, one is mals, dutchies and GSDs.

 

I know you know all this, Winners, but a lot of people reading won't.

@ 10 days old you can't really do anything other than handle them a little and maybe pop a few rounds off when the dam finishes eating/goes back in to nurse. But right around 28 days or so, when pups emerge from the whelping box on their own, it's on! and you've only got appx 20 days until vpat from there. So brief period, from wean (day 28) until vpat (day 49) is all you got.

Not long, and they're little, so it's all very gentle, and they tire out pretty quick. So it's not like "hard work" for a breeder to put the extra effort in, if only for the sake of the pups themselves. Setting them up for success now gives them an advantage as far as what kind of treatment they'll ultimately receive throughout the rest of their lives.

so, with all that said, and bearing in mind we have appx 2 weeks to think it all over before they emerge and we begin, for the time being I'll defer to all the resident experts (this means you). You tell me, what should we be imprinting?

I'll share all my old time hillbilly byb tricks as we go, but I was kinda hoping to take it "next level." I mean they're just mutts. It's not like I'm trying to sell them. It's perfectly understandable why other breeders don't host a "virtual open house," but me and these mutts got no reputation to protect. So lets have at it and see what we get?

 

Now this is an awesome video!

 

Here is another

 

If your goal is to pass a test, than the criteria of the test is what you should use for imprinting.

If that test is real life, use that. If it's a scorecard, use that.

 

We're not trying to imprint for vpat. We want to expose/condition/imprint as best we can for everything that comes AFTER vpat. I tried it both ways years ago, repeat breeding, and the difference was night and day.

I realize all you top tier expert trainers at least think you want a totally green pup and that's fine with me. I think top tier breeder's should by all means supply that demand. But I mean, c'mon now. Let's don't forget this is berno we're talkin' to over here. Remember me? Hello?!?

 

Here is the video I was looking for.