Very young puppy trainng

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this one?

Found it!
 
[linkhttp://www.puppyprodigies.org/VideoClips.htm]http://www.puppyprodigies.org/VideoClips.htm[/link]
 
It was me that posted it originally and it took me forever to find it again! I was totally sapcing on the name of the organization that does this. I was thinking "puppy genius? no. puppy smarts? no." Duh. Puppy Prodigies!

WOW! That is really amazing, all these dogs want to do is please us. This really choked me up. I didn't see that the first time, I thought Bunni was talking about her own prodigies. That is great, and I see exactly what she is doing. I really wouldn't have thought you could teach a pup that young anything, until I saw Bunni's crew.

OMG how cute are those videos!! Puppy bellies, puppy heads, puppy tails... I must never watch that again, LOL.

Thank you thank you!  I didn't think they could be trained that young - mine never seem that coordinated at 20 days.   On the other hand, I didn't know a few years ago how well trained they can be by 8 weeks. I have pups coming in 2 weeks. I can't wait to try training tem this young. God forbid someone should have uppies better trained than I do by 8 weeks.
 

Hee hee! Welll, keep in mind that those folks do it for a living and have nothing to do all day long but train and work with teeny tiny puppies. Once those dogs are grown and fully trained, they're like $10,000 dogs.

OMG those smart litttle babies are the most adorable thing EVER!  Where can I get a job teaching the cutest baby puppies in the world? 

have nothing to do all day long but train and work with teeny tiny puppies.

 
Well it's not like I have a job (although grooming my dogs sometimes seems like one) and I've trained my pups pretty well. I think all you really need is to see that it can be done, the rest is just doing it. That's how I started getting them trained as well as I have and I have to say I think they can do some pretty impressive things by 8 weeks - or at least I did think so before I saw these videos.
 
 

I too love watching the Puppy Prodigy videos. It just goes to show that if you put your all into it, you can truly train anything, starting at very young ages, and they are open to learning many things from a very young age. Puppy and neonatal development is a science that fascinates me, since I've been raising puppies almost all of my life, it's not hard to discover the importance of raising puppies properly in their first weeks of life at home with litter and breeder before they set off to their new homes.

So many people think it's so easy to raise puppies......*sigh*......wonder how many of those know how to do it properly.
 
Kim MacMillan

Oh, and if I may insert a comment here, since I'm not sure where else to put it. Super kudos to you Bunni for your decision regarding tail docking. It's such a breath of fresh air to find other breeders in North America who are going against the grain with tail docking (and for us, ear cropping...which we have never done nor will ever do...ack).
 
We've been promoting intact tails in our Mini Schnauzers for over three years now, with such great success. In fact we just kept our second home-bred female with an intact tail (like you, for a few years prior we had been docking tails because "that's how it was", and we hated every moment of it....it was importing two pups overseas where it is illegal that started us on our path to a different way). Now, up until last year my mother had been still allowing docking to be done if owner's specifically requested it, but I do know she is planning on ending it all together soon. If it were my way, I'd just say "no", but she does have her reasons and I respect that. []
 
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Her litter, all fully intact pups:
[linkhttp://www.miniatureschnauzer.ca/Libbispups2006.htm]http://www.miniatureschnauzer.ca/Libbispups2006.htm[/link]?
 
So just a pat on the back for some very refreshing notice that there are other breeders out there in the world of docking that feel the same way as we do (they are still quite few and far between, so I like to make mention of it if I ever see it!).
 
Kim MacMillan

Kim, Shimmer is absolutely adorable and I love the tail. I wasn't sure how well I'd like the look of the poodle tails when I first stopped docking them but now my docked dogs look like amputees to me (which of course, they are).
 
Thanks for the thanks, and thanks for your tails.

Kim, great job. Let me say I've never seen a schnauzer w/o a docked tail, and what a difference, that is the cutest thing.
Bunni you know how I feel about the job you are doing w/ your poodles.

Kim, great job. Let me say I've never seen a schnauzer w/o a docked tail, and what a difference, that is the cutest thing.
Bunni you know how I feel about the job you are doing w/ your poodles.

 
You're not likely to see an undocked Mini in North America yet these days, and if you do you should ask where they got it. [] 
 
Kim MacMillan

[sm=clapping%20hands%20smiley.gif]VERY COOL!