Have Fun Training Your Dog

An active individual looking for a dog will find the weimaraner a perfect fit into an active lifestyle. This gun dog breed packs great energy and sharp instincts in a handsome and streamlined package. But their devoted and loyal spirit also make them good pets. But this versatile dog also demands a lot when it comes to companionship, play and exercise. In fact, many an ill-informed or presuming owner have given the dog up for underestimating the dog’s brimming energy.

If properly raised, a weim will amiable absorb that is also receptive of weimaraner training and a natural sports animal too. Its form will easily turn heads, and still more with its intelligence, agility, alertness, and courage. The weim’s original breeders, German aristocrats developing a versatile gun dog, must have had their expectations surpassed in this breed. Just as then and up to now, the weim is an active dog with great demand for exercise and play, plus enough room to permit running and playing. Any weim owner is thus perhaps only rarely going to mention a tired and spent weimaraner.

If there is one thing to be wary about in the weimaraner, it would be the dog’s inclination to hyperactivity. It simply refuses to be some common hound or retriever that adorns the couch or the living room floor with its sleeping form when owners are distracted. It is an energetic dog that may prove too much to contain when agitated, but then again how much training for discipline the dog received will also be important. A game of tug of war with this dog will give you a hint of how much power this dog really has. But rough games may be out of the question, not because you will simply tire and give up first more than the dog, but because the dog may feel encouraged and tolerated to display aggression.

If you love running, the weim may just be the ideal jogging buddy for you. But it is likely that the dog will simply want to stay ahead though you hold the leash, like what happens in hunting or tracking trips. With its remarkable power, the dog will want to poke holes again and again at your leadership. So if you really want a weimaraner, but cannot personally give it some weimaraner training, try sending it to obedience school. If you enroll the dog between its second and fourth month, it may already know how to follow basic commands way before the start of its adolescent years.

To end, the weimaraner is indeed a superbly talented and hard-working dog that unfortunately is meant for a few. A prudent weim owner-trainer is ultimately responsible for making sure that the dog’s energies are spent daily on a variety of formative and productive activities. Running around blocks in the neighborhood is not the least of these ways. Tracking scents and hunting are other examples of work that will keep this valuable pet and friend busy.

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