Training question

In answer to your question Stonewall, if I understand you right, the two pups are the only dogs you have? Charles is correct. Get the pig to squealing. Get the pups to showin interest. I don't recommend them getting contact with anything thats gonna hurtem though. Not @ 3mos. One good dose of pain might breakem. They need to get a little older in the head. Very controled though its ok to let them have contact. I love nothing more than to see pups workin on a pig. Get them interested now, work with them and develop them. Don't get impatient. Lots of people believe in hunting a dog when it will hunt, and there have been occasions where I have started them early. Where I start training a dog as early as possible, I don't believe you should actually hunt one in the field till they are at least 1. A dog doesn't reach mental maturity until 2 actually. There are exceptions to every rule, but I gaurantee if a dog is a jam up dog at 8 mos, he's gonna be 10x's that at age 2. In a nut shell what I'm saying my 35 plus years with hunting and game dogs has taught me is don't get in to big a rush or expect too much too soon. Give a dog time to grow. But its never to soon to get one interested and start training.