Training Your Puppy
When a new dog or puppy makes it’s way into your life the journey has just begun. As real children need to be taught life lessons so do puppies.
When you have a dog that jumps up on people or your furniture it creates issues. This is why dog training is such an important part of any responsible pet-
owners life.
The training of your dog gives you and him quality time together so you should each have fun with it and have some much needed play time after a lesson.
When you have a puppy you will need to be incredibly patient and make sure that you do not confuse your dog. Puppies need to learn how to keep from chewing everything in sight as well as digging up the yard.
Teach them to sit and stay so that they can begin learning the basics. This is the stage when you let them know who is the boss. You are the owner and in control, not your dog.
There are certain hand signals that you will need to use in order to train your dog properly. If you do not use these effective hand signals, you are not going to get the right results.
Make your daily sessions around the same time every day in the morning before work or in the evenings after supper.
Training sessions should not be very long. Dogs especially puppies can become bored very easily and not as focused as they can be in shorter sessions. Routines on a daily basis are another thing that dogs rank on their list of importance as well.
Dogs that sit on command are easier to control. You will want to start your dog with one of the easiest commands to learn, it is the sit command.
You will need your pups favorite doggie treats to begin with. Pick one up and place it over their head out of reach from them jumping up to get it. Keep holding there until as you say sit he puts his rear end down onto the floor or other surface area.
Then say “sit” again and give him words of praise and the treat. They will quickly associate doing the right thing with the positive reinforcement of the treat and the praise and will be sitting when you say it in just a week or so.
The next command you should teach your pet is the one to lie down. This is something especially important if they will be traveling by car with you or other members of your family for long or even short distances. This command will keep them from moving around inside the car itself which could be hazardous to you as well as other drivers on the road.
Still using the treat method of training tell him to sit and then take the treat pulling it away from him across the ground or surface he is sitting on until he is in the lying down position. Then tell him the lie down command, give him the treat and give him praise for a job well done.
The last of these three tricks is also one that may take them the longest to get right as it is one called stay. Most dogs and puppies especially do not want to be still but do not forget about training them with this command though because it is a very important one.
Stay will keep them from running out doors, running away from you at parks and more. Again you will tell your dog the command of sit. Once they are in the proper place then with treat in hand and in front of them keep saying stay, stay, stay.
If they move at any time you must start all over from the beginning again until they actually do stay. Once they stay then give them their treat as a reward and keep working with them until you no longer have to use the treat only praises and petting.
We have different types of books for training tips and techniques we even have some specified for certain breeds and their behaviors. You will also be able to find training videos as well which will give you some insight on new tricks to teach your dog and some answers regarding some behavior issues you have concerns about.
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