what marks out of ten would you give yourself

[RossM 8,119]

my old bitch 4/10 although she is by far the best lurcher i have owned with regards to catch rate, she will hunt up sometimes very rarely retrieves and has selective hearing, my other bitch 7/10 not as good as my old bitch but 100x more obedient, perhaps this shows in the marks?

[martync1967 64]

some people dont have the time or patience to train a dog but the end result can be beneficial to both dog and handler,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Simoman 110]

I have trained a NASDU winner, several kennel club working trial certificate and ticket winners but nowdays im happy with basic obedience from my mutts..............

 

Never knew one of your dogs won the stock car racing mate, well done.

 

 

Next year we are going for F1 status............

[skycat 6,173]

Once upon a time I had a heap of dogs trained to quite a high standard: I could drop them off individually in the 'down', walk on, drop another one and so on until I had 4 or 5 lurchers all lying and waiting. Then I'd call the furthest one up, so it had to come past the others and they lay and waited, until they were all called up. Send back and find something I'd dropped half an hour previously, and stuff like that. But I didn't have Saluki types then! Nowadays I just need them to come when called, heel, and retrieve what they catch. The Airedale is the best, obedience wise, but she's fun to train and really likes doing all sorts of stuff: drop at a distance, work to hand signals like a gun dog, water retrieve, go into cover where I tell her, etc etc, so I'd give myself an 8/10 for her (don't really do enough with her if I'm honest but she'd do anything if I taught her) and probably around 7/10 for the rest. Standards tend to drop the longer you go on in dogs, unless you're actually competing in obedience etc. As long as they do the job I need them to, I'm happy.

[bird 9,872]

( 9 ) trained lots of dogs over the years , was crap when i started didnt have enough (patience). But over the years have got lot better, so have done well with all my dogs. In the lurcher game, i think you have to choose the right x for your own personilty. Iknow saluki xs would not be any good for me, colliexs are to clever for there own good. The best types that suit me are bullxs and lurcher to lurcher xs, get good results from these xs.

[asanley 1,009]

A very genorous 4 .

[malc1 544]

ill say 5 carnt realy judge myself some people might say 0 some might agree with 5 some might say 10 who knows

[Guest vin]

im a number 2...in all ways...lol.

[wozzer 8]

Evrything was going ok and then ?????? 4/10

[turbotyke 62]

id say a 5

[old timer123 367]

10 outta 10 for being a no good lazy lay about bum

[Col_c88 41]

how are running dogs to train? what do you need to train them to do? just recall, possibly retrieve and walking to heel?

 

I ask because one day i do intend on getting a running dog to finish off my ferreting team (4 ferrets + patterdale terrier)

 

I trained my patterdale in no time at all.. got alot of tips of Ideation and Corkyjohn,, he is 2.5 to 3 year old,, broke him to the ferrets super quick, he recalls (Rakeaboot saw this at the show he did a daft race in) and he goes to where i point.. drops (unless its a rabbit).. stays and is getting good at marking up seeing as hes only been out 4 times hes not often wrong!..

only problem i have is his impatient and whines while waiting for the rabbit.. but will sort that out

 

anyways yea sorry for hijacking this thread about my terrier in the running dog section haha

cheers for any answers on my questions.

[watchman 256]

il be the first to admit im not quite sure how much training you really need for a good lamp dog but iv seemed to manage all these years,the word get is thrown around a lot with my dogs,get up,down,on ,off in,out,get the f**k for anything i just dont like the look of at the time suits me so dont matter what i score myself really

Edited September 17, 2011 by watchman

[gizmo88 1]

me a 5 always want to much from mut

[judge2010 196]

if i give myself 10 thats big headed so i will say 9 maybe 9.5