[jazzking1971]

I am not claiming to be friends with Ceasar Millan but he is good friends with the president of my schutzhund club. Ceasar has been out on two occasions while visiting. He mentioned there has been only one dog that he couldn't rehabilitate and that dog is at his center. Some dogs are just not wired correctly and the danger of that dog is subdued by being a permanent member of his pack.

Congrats on your new pup. 8wks is not to young to start basic obedience. I start my male at 8wks. Since he comes from european working lines and bought him with the plan to do schutzhund, we played lots of tug games and tracking games to find his bowl of food. By week 11 he was walking perfectly with a loose leash (not heeling) and sitting by wk 16 we had short duration platz and bring and fairly reliable out.

Your dog may or may not be a high drive dog so work with him accordingly. Now at 8 months he has quite a bit of the schH1 obedience down. No jumps or hurdles. He will reliably platz for 20 minutes with me out of site or test up to 50 minutes with me in site.

The trick is be consistent and keep the session very short. When I startesd, I would do the exercise two or three times and that's it. Still I rarely train for more than 10 minutes.

My boy is not an angel either, he's becoming more and more dog aggressive and we're working to quell that. Which brings me back to Ceasar. When we're at the club all dogs are kept in crates. My boy has taken to charging any other dog that comes near his crate. Ceasar fixed that in about 5 minutes. I still have issues with him at the club on occasion when he is on leash and walked to the field. He's lunged at a few other dogs. He doesn't do this away from the field but Ceasar did in five minutes what I am still working to do otherwise.