Had my female breed early this spring(whelped 3/6) and three of the six pups made it. Of these I decided to keep one and the owner of the stud(my uncle) kept the other two.
I've been trying to get this pup out two or three times a week solo and once with the mother. We also tried taking all the pups out together but it was too much playing.
Well, last week this pup opened up for the first time and ran it for about 60yards and lost it(this is pretty good for a 14wk old pup, right?).
At the loss he hunted for a while and then returned to me. I ignored him walking towards where he lost it, and he returned to the point where he lost it. He hunted around this area quite a bit but could not straighten things back out, but would get very excited in certain areas and would growl, bark, and dig.My question is should I stay with the ratio of solo to running with other dogs(3:1) now that he has started? The reason I ask is the mother was trained completely solo and now refuses to honor other dogs and I want to be sure I don't repeat this. The female is of medium-slow speed so I am not concerned about running the pup with her and once the litter-mates get started I'll have dogs of like abilities to run with. To me the true test for any dog is being able to work a rabbit solo, but I would sure like for this one to run with other dogs.
Brian ott
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