This is a touchy spot for most people, how much is too much? When do you send your monster on it's first errantry? Should I use hard drills? When should my monster be rested? These are all tough questions, a lot of it has to do with the responses you recieve from Colt. When she says that the monster "seems" well, then its time to rest it. Depending on how you answer the initial test questions will determine when she says this though, so you may end up working your monster entirely too hard, in which case you are shortening its life span.

My answer is rest after every third drill, wether you use hard drills or soft, the monster will need rest after about 3.

When it comes to errantries, I prefer to send my monster on its first errantry around the age of 6 months to 8 months. At this age I probably have placed (forced) my monster into the second stage of growth. Does your's look a little bit bigger, if so send it. It probably won't be able to make it through all 4 weeks but it will attain a new attack and you will see the stats growth jump at this point. When you force your monster into stage 2, you are also possibly shortening its life span, so keep that in mind.

Rule of thumb never send your monster on too many errantries. I recomend no more than 5, some people recomend no more than 4. I think 4 is too little and more than 6 is out of hand, so stick with between 4-6 errantries and your monster will still live a rather long time. Also never send your monster on errantries to gain stat points. It is a waste of time and your monster comes back more tired than if you had just run it through 4 hard drills anyway. Also only send your monster if you will gain a new attack, this is actually the only reason you should send your monster on errantries anyway. If the guy says "It might be difficult for your monster," don't send it, it won't get a new attack. Also just because you have one Special Attack (gained from the Def errantry) doesn't mean you can't get another. You just have to use the attack you already have a few times, most attacks work on chains. You have to perform a certain attack so many times before attaining a new attack.

Make sure you only send your monster on errantries during the first week of the month. By sending them at any other time, they will miss their meal at the beggining of the month and fatigue as well as weight loss will occur. I recomend feeding the monster a Tablet after every errantry to reduce stress and fatigue, followed by a nuts oil (week 1) and then a mint leaf (week 2), rest them during this period as well (2 weeks).

And finally, always try to find out what errantry will fill up that missing attack range. Here is how my newest monster Dastard a Selketo[Arrowhead/Joker] looked.