Puppy First

Free puppy training tips:

Your puppy training routine should start the day you bring your new puppy home. Dogs are always learning, but they learn best when they are young. This is a vital time for influencing your dog’s future behavior. Without your intervention, your dog will learn, but not what you want it to. Start implementing some simple puppy training tips the day your new canine companion arrives in your home.

To help with training a puppy, make sure you provide him with a well-fitted collar, a private place to sleep, a designated play area, and suitable toys. These toys belong to you, the pack leader, and should not be left lying around. Your pup’s mind is most open to new experiences when it is under 12 weeks old. The more it experiences now – children, cats, other dogs, joggers, cyclists, baby carts, cars, and public transport – the more it will take these things for granted. Successful puppy training means you need to ensure your pup learns as much as is necessary, while it is still young, to live the life you plan for it.

Start training a puppy as soon as you bring it into your home. Teach the puppy your rules before it makes its own. All family members should routinely handle a new puppy while it learns to wear a collar and lead, eat only from its own food bowl, sleep in its own bed, come when called, and wait on command. However, only one family member should be responsible for learning and teaching free puppy training tips.

Free Puppy Training Tips

The bed as a refuge

Dogs are curious and sociable animals, so do not isolate your new canine family members. Set up a dog bed as a personal space for the puppy, and place it in a busy area of the home, such as a corner of the kitchen.

Curious chewing

Puppies investigate their environment by tasting. They play by biting, but you should discipline the puppy when it nips by saying “No” firmly. Never reprimand the puppy by hitting it.

Bitter spray

A non-toxic, bitter-tasting spray is available from most veterinary surgeries and pet shops. Apply it to articles that you do not want the dog to chew, including your hands.

Learning to wait

Your new puppy should learn that people eat before dogs, and are therefore more dominant members of the household, or pack.

Learning respect

A puppy must learn to obey the family in its new home, so all responsible family members should handle the puppy.

People go first

Dogs naturally want to rush through doors first. By teaching a puppy to wait and allow you to go first, you assert your authority over it. If the puppy does not understand this relationship, training can be difficult.

Positive enticement

By using food enticements rather than discipline, you will find training a puppy much easier as this will teach the puppy more quickly which activities are not allowed.

A private place

Train a puppy to enjoy being left in a crate with its toys. Start by leaving it alone for short periods at first.