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toxicadrenaline53 User is Offline

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12/26/2011 2:59 AM
i will be picking up my first GSP (6 month old) on friday (5 days) and i was just wondering what a couple of you the fellow owners did as for boundary training? i cannot afford an underground fence at this time nor could i install one due to snow and frost in the ground. just lookin for some insight and methods used by others. thanks!

Texas Belle User is Offline

Austin, TX

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12/26/2011 6:40 PM
Without an electronic fence or a physical fence I am not sure you will have much luck. I would work on a reliable recall and then this summer put in a fence of one kind or another. The boundary work is tough with a shorthair, especially at 6 months.

Bev Quarles, the Pointer Sisters (Belle and Halo), the Outlaw GSP (Johnny Ringo) and the little Princess (Fauna) Yellow Rose GSPs "A dog has the soul of a philosopher." - Plato

bravepoint User is Offline

North Gower, ON Canada

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12/27/2011 4:59 AM
I would recommend that you put in a fence as soon as the weather permits. In the meantime, keep a close eye on your puppy or keep him on a leash when you're outside. As Bev said, work on that reliable recall!

Gail, Moka, Avery, Terra & Rayne Bravepoint GSPs

tgatto

Lake in the Hills, IL

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12/28/2011 10:26 AM
You could use (temporarily) a check-cord, or tie-out. But keep an eye on them at all times. Sadie used one when she was that young, and would pull out of her collar (or jerk through the clasp). We did the tie out primarily because she was small enough to fit through some holes the rabbits had created under our fence, and she was also getting under our pool deck, which none of us wanted to chase her under. As previously stated, once the recall is solid it becomes less of a concern. Good luck!

It is watching the dogs work that I thoroughly enjoy, and love. I could get by with just watching them work - if it weren't for all the training, and the joy they exhibit when they pick-up, and deilver to hand a bird that they pointed, and you shot. - Todd

DrWiffel

Prior Lake, MN

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12/30/2011 8:47 AM
I've heard of people laying a yellow rope around the boundary and putting an ecollar on the dog. When the dog would try and cross they would use the ecollar on the dog until the dog comes back across the rope. You would have to walk the dog around to make sure they understand where they are allowed to be and where they cannot cross... That is not the method I would use, and I don't recommend it... I would, like stated above, work on the recall. Get that to 100% and you'll be fine. Training takes time, and it doesn't happen overnight. Remember to be to always be patience, be stern when you need to be, quit training sessions when you start getting stressed, always end on a good note, and above all HAVE FUN! *also, when you give a command make sure they follow it EVERY time. If you don't want to enforce a command, don't give one. (Something I have been guilty of myself, and I work on myself every day to correct it)

kpwlee

Raleigh, NC

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01/16/2012 8:38 AM
first of all safety first so keep the pup on lead you could try to do the boundary teaching just as you do with the e-fence meaning set flags out along the boundary you want (keep it away from the road for passersby and for the pups safety) and you keep them on leash. Walk toward the flags and then as the pup approaches the boundary run back away towards the center of the yard and play with them. What you want to teach is to run away from the line and that fun things happen in the yard. Much harder without the actual fence but I do know of some dogs that have learned this way without the fence and have been fairly successful. Biggest mistake is to trust the dog before they are ready - that is handler mistake not dog mistake but typically the dog pays with its life

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