This puppy thing won’t last forever, and they won’t learn the rules without your help. By training your puppy, you can establish good habits, and fill his time with new activities. Hopefully, there will be little time left over for getting into trouble!
Reliable potty training can be frustrating if you don’t know where to start, and even worse when your puppy has already started to develop a habit, but it’s not too late! You can help your pup settle into their new home with these simple tips.
Often, people react instinctively to this behavior by happily greeting their dog or pushing it down with their hands. In either case, this sends the message that jumping up is acceptable, and so the habit only grows. By teaching an alternative behavior you can begin to take back some control, and request behaviors you prefer!
After calling your dog to you, have you ever: scolded him, taken him inside to stop barking, put him in the bath, brushed him, or taken something away? Your dog may have stopped coming when you call if it is followed by things he dislikes!
Practice makes permanent! The biggest mistake dog owners make is in thinking their dog or puppy will just grow out of it. But by allowing your dog to practice pulling, jumping, stealing or soiling in the house will only reinforce these behaviors.
Attempting to soothe your fearful dog’s anxiety with treats, or coddling is actually encouraging the unwanted behavior. Through training. we keep your dogs mind on other things long enough to replace the problem behavior with the preferable ones.
What is the single biggest complaint from dog owners? PULLING on the leash! The truth is, the more time a dog spends practicing pulling on the leash, the more they make a habit of it! In fact, the more we pull our dogs close the worse it becomes! Here’s how