How do you bring your dogs up to peak fitness?

[stroller 341]

How do you get the best from your dogs?

 

How much and what type of exercise do you give?

 

How old is a pup when you start this regime?

 

what and how often do you feed?

 

what obedience training do you consider a must before entering a pup?

 

What care do you give your dog after a session on the lamp or out mooching or ferretting.

 

Im sure this has been answered a mllion times in fragmented threads but its a chance to get your thoughts down and give a comprehensive guide to the younger up and coming hunters, and dispel the myth of macho lurcher owners who think nowt for their dogs and who change them more often than their socks. which in turn may help a few lurchers live a long and healthy career.

[stroller 341]

For starters heres mine

 

i keep my dogs inside and out which gets them used to living as part of a family and i beleive builds more of a bond

 

the dogs get 30 - 45 minutes of free running every morning and two 15 minute walks during the day or evening. If they are being built up for the season i will get the bike out and they will do a couple of miles of roadwork. at weekends they get a lot more as we do organised dog walks.

 

it depends on the pup and its breeding but from about ten months on i wil start to concentrate more on the individual dog and increase the roadwork building it up to between 2 and 5 miles as well as its free running. road work toughen s the feet tendons and ligaments.

 

I feed twice a day after excercise, mainly chappie dry food supplemented with skinned and gutted rabbits that have been frozen for more than a fortnight (To kill the worms)i also feed tinned chappie, sardines and eggs as well as a small amount of cows milk and a calcum supplement as well as fish oil capsules. to the pups until their knuckles have grown out then i switch to dry food. if i had less dogs and more time i would definatey feed a BARF diet (Raw meat. i just think its the best for the dogs and it means less shite to pick up)

 

a pup must have re call, wait, retrieve and heel off the lead before i will take him out. the rest is field craft and he will pick that up as he goes, and if he is a big dog then jumping is good cos you dont want to be lifting him over gates etc.

 

afetr working the dog i check its feet wash them out if need be. eyes, mouth, belly, under legs etc for rips and thorns. i make sre the dog is dry before bedding it down.

 

just common sense stuff

[huntingalltheway 2]

How do you get the best from your dogs?

 

How much and what type of exercise do you give?

 

How old is a pup when you start this regime?

 

what and how often do you feed?

 

what obedience training do you consider a must before entering a pup?

 

What care do you give your dog after a session on the lamp or out mooching or ferretting.

 

Im sure this has been answered a mllion times in fragmented threads but its a chance to get your thoughts down and give a comprehensive guide to the younger up and coming hunters, and dispel the myth of macho lurcher owners who think nowt for their dogs and who change them more often than their socks. which in turn may help a few lurchers live a long and healthy career.

started my lurcher with basic walking to heal in the fields at 8 weeks just for a few minutes. im now at the point of 7 months and i havnt got the legs to walk him as much as he could probly go for so 4-5 hours a day i aim for more but this has been a very gradual process. i feed him chicken with a pacted dry food. dry food is down all day so its there when he needs it and he has a chicken carcass every morning. i dont do any as such obedience training as i see a dog at his best as natural as he can be as long hes walking to heel thats fine. im a true believer in almost rearing them like a wolf cub would be. i let them observe the hunt from a very early age watching a very experienced dog i never have them on a lead and when there finally ready to give chase thats there choice but you find at by 4 months they have good goes on the rabbits that are running back at your feet. its done in a controlled manner so the dog isnt thrashing his nuts off young but like a wolf experiencing the hunt like this i find brings all the natural insticts out alot better than the later entered ones. after the night out i make sure the water bowl is topped up to the brim and if there young give them a bit of boiled rabbit so they no there not running for no bennifit. then check there feet,leg and bellies and snout just to make sure there still in top order. then bed them down for the night

[stroller 341]

thats a different approach mate and if it works for you then im all for it. it definately makes me look like a control freak though.

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

: Well done guys,...you got to look after your workers,...and they will look after you...

[huntingalltheway 2]

thats a different approach mate and if it works for you then im all for it. it definately makes me look like a control freak though.

not really you cant do it with all breeds your giving the correct training for your breed of dog. i only took this method on a few years ago after watching some very incredible dogs work and asked him what made them this successful and he said the above what i told you. now hes got 30 odd years in bring dogs up this way so its tried and tested. i my self have lamped with hundreds of other people and no ones dogs yet have come close to the bar he set, dont get me wrong seen some good dogs and some great but still his are way above so hence why i use the above method and i gotta tell you it does bring dogs in to there own league way above the rest. a good example is we took my 6 month old bedlington/whip x bull/whip/grey out with a 12 month old alaskan malamute which is owned by flint08s son and we had 16 rabbits. now you cant say that is bad. his malamute had same up bringing. my current dog i only stated him watching at 5 months when the rest have been out watching at 10 weeks. you just know when there ready

Edited February 20, 2010 by huntingalltheway

[woodard 32]

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Edited February 20, 2010 by woodard

[sh 08 17]

i take mine on a 4 mile trott along side the bike everyday she seems to be quite fit

[Dan Edwards 1,134]

How do you get the best from your dogs?

 

How much and what type of exercise do you give?

 

How old is a pup when you start this regime?

 

what and how often do you feed?

 

what obedience training do you consider a must before entering a pup?

 

What care do you give your dog after a session on the lamp or out mooching or ferretting.

 

Im sure this has been answered a mllion times in fragmented threads but its a chance to get your thoughts down and give a comprehensive guide to the younger up and coming hunters, and dispel the myth of macho lurcher owners who think nowt for their dogs and who change them more often than their socks. which in turn may help a few lurchers live a long and healthy career.

started my lurcher with basic walking to heal in the fields at 8 weeks just for a few minutes. im now at the point of 7 months and i havnt got the legs to walk him as much as he could probly go for so 4-5 hours a day i aim for more but this has been a very gradual process. i feed him chicken with a pacted dry food. dry food is down all day so its there when he needs it and he has a chicken carcass every morning. i dont do any as such obedience training as i see a dog at his best as natural as he can be as long hes walking to heel thats fine. im a true believer in almost rearing them like a wolf cub would be. i let them observe the hunt from a very early age watching a very experienced dog i never have them on a lead and when there finally ready to give chase thats there choice but you find at by 4 months they have good goes on the rabbits that are running back at your feet. its done in a controlled manner so the dog isnt thrashing his nuts off young but like a wolf experiencing the hunt like this i find brings all the natural insticts out alot better than the later entered ones. after the night out i make sure the water bowl is topped up to the brim and if there young give them a bit of boiled rabbit so they no there not running for no bennifit. then check there feet,leg and bellies and snout just to make sure there still in top order. then bed them down for the night

 

 

Very very good answer and that is alot how we bring our pups up. We raise them pretty much wild running loose on the farm. I dont like to pen our pups up until they just get to that age where they are constantly tearing shit up or running amuck all over the country side. At about 6 months old or so we have to start puttin them in their kennel during the day but we will let them out to cause havoc and hell at night and just kennel em back up in the morning. They are on dry dog food at all times and we give them as much meat and such as we can affor and or find. As soon as they can jump in the back of the truck by themselves we will start takin them out with the big dogs roading them and gettin them in on all kinds of stuff. They might get in on a coon kill or two when they are 7 or 8 months old and then if its about time for the coyotes they will start gettin in on this stuff also. Dont matter if its running hounds or greyhounds or crossbred mutts thats how we do things. The pure running hounds have to be kenneled alot earlier cause they damn sure will start causing problems between 4 and 5 months. I dont mind when they are just running rabbits and such in tall grass or timber patches but when they start running deer all over the countryside its time they go to "jail". LOL!

[craigheff 12]

hey lads some great information here

 

i myself have just got my first lurcher and was wondering if someone could explain how to train a pup to walk to heel???

 

thanks alot lads any info would be great

 

craig

[Stuart O Connor 1]

hey lads some great information here

 

i myself have just got my first lurcher and was wondering if someone could explain how to train a pup to walk to heel???

 

thanks alot lads any info would be great

 

craig

 

 

For my first lurcher i used the extendable leads and all the others learn from him after that !

[craigheff 12]

hey lads some great information here

 

i myself have just got my first lurcher and was wondering if someone could explain how to train a pup to walk to heel???

 

thanks alot lads any info would be great

 

craig

 

 

For my first lurcher i used the extendable leads and all the others learn from him after that !

thanks stuart..do you just make him walk along behind you while on the lead?

dose it work well?

 

cheers mate

 

craig

[Stuart O Connor 1]

hey lads some great information here

 

i myself have just got my first lurcher and was wondering if someone could explain how to train a pup to walk to heel???

 

thanks alot lads any info would be great

 

craig

 

 

For my first lurcher i used the extendable leads and all the others learn from him after that !

thanks stuart..do you just make him walk along behind you while on the lead?

dose it work well?

 

cheers mate

 

craig

 

No, leave him walk as normal and if he gets carried away give the command and stop the lead !

After a while it will click no need for the lead then !

[huntingalltheway 2]

hey lads some great information here

 

i myself have just got my first lurcher and was wondering if someone could explain how to train a pup to walk to heel???

 

thanks alot lads any info would be great

 

craig

as soon as hes injected take him out in the field and walk he'l stay as close by you as he can. keep doing this when hes really young and they learn to stay close. they do it naturally with repetition. but if you leave them till there older than you will need an extender lead because the older they get the more curious they are hence do it when there scared of everything and they want to be glued to you.