Introducing Meera

She is very lovely. If you intend to show her, how can you tell which has the 'wow' factor at 8 weeks? Do they either have it or not, no matter what the age?
 
Clodagh said:
She is very lovely. If you intend to show her, how can you tell which has the 'wow' factor at 8 weeks? Do they either have it or not, no matter what the age?
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I was very lucky to have 2 champ judges help me assess the pups. The general rule of thumb is that the conformation you see at 6/7 weeks old is what you will see as an adult. All the pups were assessed as being showable with not much to choose from between 2 of the bitches. I picked the one that reminds me most of Tiva and the other has gone to a lovely home that wishes to show too.
As far as wow factor is concerned a pup that naturally stands 4 square with its tail wagging has a definite advantage
 
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satinbaze said:
I was very lucky to have 2 champ judges help me assess the pups. The general rule of thumb is that the conformation you see at 6/7 weeks old is what you will see as an adult. All the pups were assessed as being showable with not much to choose from between 2 of the bitches. I picked the one that reminds me most of Tiva and the other has gone to a lovely home that wishes to show too.
As far as wow factor is concerned a pup that naturally stands 4 square with its tail wagging has a definite advantage
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That makes sense. At least with the flatcoats and also the labs they seem happy to be in the ring and don't have to be strangled.
 
I so agree Clodagh. When I first discovered flatcoats,I went to look at them at Crufts. I had never seen so many happy wagging tails in my life. That was it, sold to the lady ASAP!!
 
Chiffy said:
I so agree Clodagh. When I first discovered flatcoats,I went to look at them at Crufts. I had never seen so many happy wagging tails in my life. That was it, sold to the lady ASAP!!
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Flatcoats and goldies, I have never seen a sad one!
 
I remember doing a demo of clicker training to a group of teachers once and the comment was how optimistic my dog was. I think this is 1: being a flatcoat and 2: being trained using operant conditioning
 
cinnamontoast said:
Beautiful girl!

Who named her? I’m itching to correct their grammar! Sorry. :redface3:
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That’s would be me and the kennel club. I did check online how to spell it! Cirque du lumiere is a performance group. I couldn’t have Cirque du soleil.
 
What a cutie. What is "operant conditioning"? (I'm new to this dog training lark and trying to learn as much as possible before my pup comes home).
 
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Operant conditioning is the method behind clicker training. Very simply the dog has to work out the behaviour that earns the reward. If you look up models of learning then the man to look at is BF Skinner. Operant conditioning allows he dog to work it out and therefore gives a stronger behaviour but you also get a creative dog that tries different things. Sometimes I set my criteria as “a behaviour you have never done before” great fun for dog and me
 
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