Bonding with your pup starts from day one, don't forget to enjoy when they are a spastic puppy; going from 100mph to zero within five minutes.
Taking small steps with a slow starting puppy can be the key to making progress. It took Maggy a couple minutes to start treeing a caged squirrel once I raised the cage off the ground. The next step is to get her to tree non-caged squirrels. She does have a beautiful tree bark and its nice to hear her finally open up on squirrels.