When is the right time to start training a puppy? Puppies seem to
mature at different rates making it hard for many people to know when the most
useful time is to start a training regimen. House training, or potty training,
should begin as new puppy into your home. Keeping this positive and
anticipating when your puppy needs to relieve itself. Praising highly when he
goes where you want him to. I always tell people to avoid the word “No” with
their new puppies for the first week to ten days that it comes home. Just spoil
and pamper a new puppy focusing on bonding before anything else. Most people
think they should just let a puppy cry, they believe if they go to a cry puppy
it will make it a cry baby dog. This is not true that first week. Again bonding
with you is the most important first step.
Crate training, keeping the puppy in a small area or crate, can be
a very helpful tool in the house/toilet training procedure. Dog were den
dwellers in the wild. Their denning instinct tells them not to relieve
themselves where they sleep. If you keep your puppy in a crate at sleeping time
he will learn to hold it until you let him out. First thing in the morning, or
when he demands to go out, take him to where you want him to go and praise
highly when he does. It is also a go time to key him by saying “hurry up,
toilet, or do potty” anything you want him to associate with going so later you
can ask him to go.
After your puppy has settled into his new home, you can start
teaching basic commands and work on socialization. The more friendly
experiences we can set up with him the better for socializing. And it is best
not to repeat commands from the very beginning. All commands should be given
once and in your normal speaking voice. Never repeat and never yell. Never ever
hit, not with anything ever, for any reason.
0 comments:
Post a Comment