I read in this article posted above that all basic training should start before the dog is 7 months. Now I am in the position that my female CO Tamara was already 9 months when I got her, due to import regulations. I have started to train her, first step she has to become familiar with our lifestyle. Now after two months in her new home she has finally set in, now she is guarding property, brave, tail up and confident on her territory. So far so good :D Now to my question, have anybody here experience with starting obedience training with a CO or similar breed already close to a year old? Did you have success? Any special difficulties compared to starting with a puppy? I would like to have her obey the basic commands like sit, stay, come and stop. Wishing everybody a good summer :D Cindy B. Andersen

[quote=gsicard]A good read on training the Caucasian and Central Asian http://security-dog.org/english/training/index.html Take a look and then lets discuss it here.[/quote] In Natural conditions Caucasian Ovcharkas have not any training. Theirs instict is to provide optimal behaviour. Most Natural CO even do not react on theirs names - actually they have not name - they are dogs and members of Pack (human owner and family members, including sheeps and cows of owner also are members of a Pack). But CO can be trained (some of them). Generally human shephers think that good leader of pack is to be ageins any training - training discussed as lowering leadres narural rank inside pack.

[quote=YL]Beso, where is your experience with COs come from? Just curious. Yelena.[/quote] :) I am grandson of Georgian shepherd - real one and my first toys were puppies of Nagazi and baby sheeps... http://bpg.sytes.net/nagazi/bpg/publication_view.asp?InfoID=11333&iabspos=1&vjob=vsub,26

[quote=cindyba] I read in this article posted above that all basic training should start before the dog is 7 months. Now I am in the position that my female CO Tamara was already 9 months when I got her, due to import regulations. I have started to train her, first step she has to become familiar with our lifestyle. Now after two months in her new home she has finally set in, now she is guarding property, brave, tail up and confident on her territory. So far so good :D Now to my question, have anybody here experience with starting obedience training with a CO or similar breed already close to a year old? Did you have success? Any special difficulties compared to starting with a puppy? I would like to have her obey the basic commands like sit, stay, come and stop. Wishing everybody a good summer :D Cindy B. Andersen[/quote] Starting young is best (do as I say but not as a do), but I started my Frol grandson Viktor this past spring at 9months old in ObedI, we missed 1/3 of the classes, and practiced in the parking lot only on the way into class, and he still passed easily (whew). The sit -stays and down-stays with recall across the ring were much easier than with a young puppy.