Puppy Training

We spent a lot of time, energy, and effort training our first dog Chops not only in basic obedience, but for bird hunting too. Two years after purchasing him he is a very well behaved, very skilled bird dog who can't bird hunt (more on this in a future post).I credit a lot of the training success first to Eric, who did a large majority of the training with Chops, but also to this book.

Of all the horrible things about our first dog breeders, they did suggest this book which was very helpful and taught us a lot about dog training. It has since been revised and now looks like this:

The Monks of New Skete are a  raise and train German Shepherds. They have a handful of dog books out there and their training techniques helped us a lot. Keep in mind this is the only puppy training book I have read, but it worked pretty good and baby Turk can already sit and is mastering down within his first two weeks with us.