Here is the story I've acquired a three month old GSD and I've had him about a week now. My first question is about tracking. He has super strong hunt drive! He almost always has his nose to the ground. I've started some begining tracking and he is taking 20 paces and turns very well. He tends to want to go, go, go and misses peices of bait on the track, but he has so far found the end pad with out any trouble and he stops there. Should I be slowing him down enough to get the other peices of bait on the track? Now for question #2. He likes the rag a lot. Ball-on-a-string he is not so crazy about but I can somtimes get him to play with that also. So whenever we go out he wants to track and I'm having a hard time getting him to focus on the prey item so what should I do to get him more interested? Maybe I should just not track right now? Oh, and I have been doing 1 track a day.
Thanks
I also meant to ask this, he really likes other dogs and wants to chase cats. He is seperated from my dobie at all times unless I can be there to tell bond (dobie) to sit and stay so he pays no attention to the melee (GSD). The other day we were walking through the clinic where I work and there was a huge boxer at the other end. Melee saw him and instantly started barking defensivly, it was definitly a defense bark he had his hair up too. He did the same thing today at the bull dog next door, he was about 100ft away. Is this somthing I need to be concerned about?
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New pup w/high drive hunt vs. prey question
#172255 - 01/01/2008 12:46 PM 
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