Tryin your advice what do you think of this plan(mya Trials)

[andrew_kirby]

Ive been watching this topic. A lot of these guys have made some excellent post. I have a female that is 3 that is had only been in 4 trials and i know that i can trust her. I have female that is almost 2 that has ran with the older female since a pup and is excellent i just aint gonna put her in a trial for a little bit longer until i knwo she can go. I ruined a 18 month old female when i first started by putting her in to early with two much pressure. Your only been to 2 trials I understand you placed at the last one but i wouldnt get used to it. Trials are 90% luck 10% dog. I have been out and watched the best dog lose because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time and another dog made a jump or check and won the hunt. Trials are fun I enjoy going to them and when i sold the 18 month old dog and just had young ones i still went just to hang out. Dont get caught up to fast with wanting to enter trials and risk ruining your dog. Just run your dogs. hunt your dogs and when there ready there ready. Like posted previously your not training a olympic athlete. Run your dogs let them make there mistakes then correct them dont set them up for failure before they have a chance to do it themselves. When the dogs ready youll know it theyll let you know it. I know a lot of guys that set a age on a dog before they put a dog in a trial i also know guys that can tell when a dogs ready and enter them in at a younger age. Ive seen some dogs less than 2 that can flat out dominate. Let the dog tell you and youll be a lot better off than pressuring it into something. But i am assuming the dog is less than 1 year by your post and I would never run a dog that young against dogs 2,3,4 years old in a trial but thats just me, Let it be a pup thats like putting most 9th grade students in college class if they dont have the basics how do you expect them to learn the advanced stuff. It comes with time and age
Just my 2cents.

[deerhost]

Bunnyblaster, No insult taken here. What I've done is just one persons way of doing it and I've enjoyed reading your post and how you do it. When I was a teenager and up tel the last 15 years or so I lived in New York city. My brother in-laws ran beagles and thats when I got my first beagle. We ran our dogs in a big bunch of woods by city Island which was our beach area. It was loaded with rabbits but we had no deer. We started and trained our dogs there and so they were never exposed to deer. Usually after the pups second season we then hunted them in upstate new York were shooting was permitted and where there were plenty of deer and very few if any of those dogs ever ran deer after just being exposed to rabbits there first year to year and a half. Thats what has lead me to do the same now. I just keep them away from deer and let them run plenty of rabbit. I do believe though some pups will run a deer regardless. Safe running and again no insult taken....DH PS I do agree with Silversuk..Besides giving them a ride to the hunting spot and teaching them to handle, What a beagle pup does while running a rabbit is 90% genetic. Let the pup be a pup and don't make a list, just enjoy it and take it hunting It will turn into what its genes have planned....DH