Competitive Obedience

[bailey04]

Hello everyone. I am a first time rottweiler owner but not a first time dog owner. I currently have a 3.6 year old siberian husky and about 2.5 weeks ago we brought home a 5 week old rottweiler. I know that is early for a pup to come home, but the mother had rejected all of the pups and stopped feeding them after 2 weeks. Plus the pup came from my cousins litter so he sees the remaining pups still. My husky has taken over the mothering part for him and he is learning a lot from her as well as plays at all times together. He already knows come, sit, bed, and other things we want him to know around the house. We are working on other aspects also. He is very intelligent and we are thinking of training him for competitive obedience. I am not sure where to start with this. My cousin had two rotts and decided to breed them. They come from very good backgrounds. If anyone could by chance give me a place to start and any information that would be wonderful and greatly appreciated

[damp]

Welcome to the Forums!

Even the dam has rejected the pups the litter should stay together. No one can replace, what pups learn from each other and that’s all “ training” a 5 week old pup needs at the moment.

I would bring the pup back to the remaining siblings. (Seems like you still can go and visit him.) That will be an advantage not only for your pup.

When he is 8 weeks and old enough to leave, bring him back and concentrate on housebreaking, socialisation and manner.

[Luvs]

Originally Posted by damp

Welcome to the Forums!

Even the dam has rejected the pups the litter should stay together. No one can replace, what pups learn from each other and that’s all “ training” a 5 week old pup needs at the moment.
I would bring the pup back to the remaining siblings. (Seems like you still can go and visit him.) That will be an advantage not only for your pup.
When he is 8 weeks and old enough to leave, bring him back and concentrate on housebreaking, socialisation and manner.

Welcome to the forum and congrats on your new puppy.

I totally agree with Damp. If you can get your puppy back with it's litter mates it will benefit them ALL a great deal.

As far as obedience goes, keep all training sessions short and sweet. Everything should be FUN, FUN, FUN for your puppy. Start looking for a club to train with now so that when your puppy is old enough you will be ready to go. Enroll your puppy in a puppy class to get him started and then go from there. I would also look for an instructor who has titled dogs if you are wanting to do competitive obedience. If you do a search of the forums you will find a list of some great books to help get you started as well.

Good luck! Enjoy your puppy! They grow up way too fast.

[bailey04]

Thank you for your replies. I understand that he is suppose to be with his littler. The litter is 10 minutes from me. So what we have been doing is in the morning dropping him off with the litter and then at night we bring him home so he can get use to us and the two dogs can get use to each other. We are doing this so he doesn't get scared and so we can really see how the two are together. While he also gets his litter time.