Big Baby Blue eyes, long ears, skin that looks like Nora Batty's stockings. Who could fail to fall for that? The 8 week old above is now 27" tall, weighs in at 34 kilos and he's not yet 2 years old. He lives with a 4 year old child, a 6 month baby, 2 Burmese cats ad a budgie. He has been taught to fetch toys for the child, never to enter the baby's room unless an adult is present, and always to walk calmly beside the pram. He has learned he is below the cats in the pecking order and to leave the room when the budgie is out of its cage. He understands he will get three gallops a day, time to play with the children, time to sleep, a space to himself and time to cuddle up to Mum and Dad. He is a social, well-mannered member of society and is welcome everywhere. He is greatly loved and gives 1,000% in return. Sounds idyllic, yet even now his owners still talk of the amount of work it took to get him to this state of perfection.

                                    Teach Him!

This would probably lead you to believe that Weimaraners are difficult to train. Quite the opposite is the case. They are extremely easy to train, teach it once, reward with food and a Weimaraner knows it. You just have to be all the more inventive and imaginative. He is so quick to learn, if you don't teach him the acceptable way to behave, he will teach himself …..and it won't be acceptable.

The puppy in the photo is sitting, why? Because there's food. How? Take the treat over & above his head, his bottom has nowhere else to go but on the floor. You say the word as it happens. He has learnt to sit on command. It's not a great sit, but his feet are not jumping on you.

Someone comes to the front door, the puppy goes with you, you say 'sit', he sits, he gets food. He has learned 'front door manners'.

He's sitting, you drag the treat along the floor away from him, his front feet slide along the floor, you say 'down' as it happens, he gets food. He has learned to down on command. This is the most important lesson for a dominant breed.

He's sitting, you say 'wait', you count to 10, he gets food. He has learned to wait on command.

Bit by bit, you and the puppy build up a vocabulary based on action (what he does) and reaction (getting the reward). After all, if you were working, would you not want the reward of being paid at the end of the month?

Put the work in while he's young and you will reap the benefits. Don't do it and he will be a thug by the age of 6 months. He will have gone back to the Breeder (if the person who bred him wants to know) or he will be in Rescue (see Contacts Section under Independent Weimaraner Rescue & Re-Homing Charity No. SCO24308 registered working title Weimaraner Rescue). The dog is as YOU made him.