At 9 weeks, I would'nt even be worrying about it yet. It will come together much easily if you can get her solid on basic obedience. You should be able to judge some natural god given ability at 9 weeks, but you are light years away from seeing her true potential, regardless of how much work you put into it, just due to the pups age. I consider myself to have grown up around some of the finest pointing dogs to ever hit the ground. My grandpa and his buddies lived for pointing dogs and field trials. He had a brood bitch from generations of National ch's and shooting dog championships, that was never trained, but would hold a point and naturally back from the time she was born till she died. She was never trained. But then again, some of her puppies were worked hard and some took a great deal of time to train to be steady to wing and shot, and also back another dog. It just all comes down to the individual pup.

But at 9 weeks, just let her enjoy being a puppy. At that age, thier attention span is very short. Start working on it in about 3 months.

We worked this morning again...she did better...gets better each time...she is coming to name and whistle really well now( maybe cause she likes treats lol)...we worked hard on whoa today...she did ok...some of the time she sat when I told her whoa but she stayed...its a start I think...didn't mess with wing today, want to get commands good first...

I'm not a big fan of treats as a reward, My dogs reward was always paise and positive verbal and physical reinforcement. I don't know what it makes any difference I just never done it.

But then I also encouraged my last pointer to point rabbits too. I did catch some flack for that, a little nontraditional I know but feild competitions were not of any intrest to me. And with the decline in grouse and quail habitat and numbers I got tired of getting more exercise than meat. She would point and hold to shot and retrieve most any thing she came accross. We came home many days with a mixed bag. That was her job and she was very good at it.