In my last blogpost i wrote about how best to receive and adapt a puppy to its new home. In this article you can read about how you get the puppy to socialize with other dogs, what you study at the puppy schools, what positive leadership does – and a lot more.

Now chances are you’ll have had the puppy a while, hopefully started at a puppy school and is considering possibly continue at a dog school – and do whatever you can so you can get as much experience as you possibly can.

Teach the puppy to socialize with other puppies

Initially let me mention socialization. It actually is very important that our puppies from the start learns to socialize with other puppies. In addition, it’s fun to observe their “language” with each other during breaks. When I write socialization, I believe that the dogs meet, they discover their position in the hierarchy and learn how to communicate – or really, how they adapt what they learned from their mom, in order that it also works when they are together with other puppies. The more new puppies your puppy may meet up with earlier in its daily life, the better it is really. This way, your puppy may have significantly improved tolerance for other puppies later in life.

The way to coach your puppy

For puppy coaching, there are numerous aspects which might be learned. Very first, not surprisingly coping with other dogs, then “sit” which means, “Sit down and continue to be till other is said.” You train your puppy to sit down using a treat in front of the snout of your dog, generally the dog will automatic sit down once the treat placed upward. Once the dog then finds out that it will get the treat, it doesn’t take long to teach it the term “sit” aswell. It is possible to teach the puppy to “lay down” in the very same manner. This means that the dog should lie down and remain, the second being said. At first, the puppy naturally is not going to lie down for too long – and that’s okay. Only if the signal “lay down” is well learned, you can begin to “demand” that your dog has to lay down more time. “Lay down” is learned by holding a treat close to the dog’s chest and little by little leads down towards the floor – and as soon as the puppy lies down, the treat is given. “Stand” is learned likewise. This implies that the dog must be at rest on all four legs till other is stated.

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So you’ve just brought a new puppy into your house. Surely, one of the first things that will come into your mind is training her. Your puppy must feel that she’s very welcome in her new home. Doing this involves regarding her not as a toy, but as an important part of your family. You may notice that your puppy will act strange on his first week and this is due to the sounds and smells in your house that may seem unfamiliar to her. But she will get used to it after a period of time. There are three steps on how to train a puppy without much difficulty.

The first step you must try is to teach her the basic commands like sit, stay, heel and others. It will be easy for your puppy to learn these things if you will do them at least twice or thrice a day. Nutrition is also important for your puppy so be choosy when it comes to the brand of dog food. You must also teach the puppy where she should take her slumber. As mush as possible, never change this spot. Remember that it will be her new comfort place, so it must be in a peaceful place in your home which she can consider her own. Secondly, familiarize your puppy with similar words and phrases for the same expected outcome. One example of this step on how to train a puppy is the familiar “go potty” phrase. While saying this, bring her to the area which she can consider as her toilet.

Third, avoid shouting at your puppy or reprimanding her heavily no matter how much clutter she has made. Do show her your displeasure while remaining calm. You can scold her by avoiding cuddling her and saying some reprimanding words in lower tone. However, when she did something right, don’t fail to praise and reward her. It’s so easy to follow these steps on how to train a puppy. Just let your common sense do the work and if you need help, read some books or visit some dog training websites. Moreover, don’t forget to have fun while training her and keep your sessions short. Try also to have short but productive sessions between you and your pet.

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Training your dog boils down to one concept-associating pleasure with good behaviour. By that, I mean rewards and positive response from you quickly trains a dog to behave in the desired way in order to win those rewards and positive reactions.

This dog training concept extends to dogs which, for whatever reason, react in fear to relatively benign incidents, such as loud noises, power tools, appliances, etc. The idea is to create an association in their minds between something pleasurable or exciting and whatever it is that’s causing them to react in fear.

If your dog has any irrational fears, or fears stemming from a scary experience, you need to address this immediately to avoid a dog who perpetually feels stressed. A well-trained dog is a happy, calm dog.

Say, for example, your dog is afraid to ride in the car. This is particularly the case when owners only take their dogs in the car when it’s time to go to the vet. The first step is to encourage and reward your dog for sitting calmly next to the car. Get him accustomed to the idea of being near the car without having to actually get inside.

Once he can approach the car without being frightened, sit with him on the back seat of the car. (If he sits in the boot, climb in beside him.) Take a favourite toy and be sure to have lots of treats handy. Take a book or magazine to read and just relax, rewarding him for sitting calmly. You want to do this dog obedience training exercise a number of times to reinforce the idea that there’s nothing to be frightened of.

The next stage is to start the car and let it idle. Reassure him with lots of petting and stroking, again, rewarding him when he sits calmly. Once you can progress to travelling, be sure to take him only on rides to a local park or someplace where the destination is fun for him. The idea is to train him that the car is associated with fun and pleasure.

The same dog training can be applied to fears stemming, for example, from loud noises. This is easier if you have a partner. Your partner recreates the noise, not too loudly and ideally in another room to start. Make sure you have plenty of tantalizing treats, such as bite-sized pieces of cheese. Let him smell one before you start to be sure you have his attention. When your partner makes the noise, the treat should be in your hand. Give him the treat at the same moment he hears the noise.

When the dog’s ready, have your partner move closer until ultimately the noise occurs right next to him. Eventually, you will train your dog to ignore the noise completely because it has now been associated with something positive and pleasurable. He’ll have put those fears and stress behind him forever.

In this case it is ok to use treats because you are specifically trying to change a strong behaviour. Also by only using treats in certain areas of training there effect is stronger than if you use treats all the time.

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There are much kind of new puppies training, one of the many popular ways to train puppies and dogs is clicker training.

What is dog training clicker? Dog training clicker is a type of operant conditioning used successfully by many animal trainers. It is one method of training your dogs using principles of consistency desired behaviors. Dog training clicker rewards an animal for performing desired behaviors, rather than punishing misbehavior.

Dog Training Clicker
The clicker is a small hand held box which emits a clicking sound when a button is depressed. Other variations of the clicking device can be simply snapping your fingers.

The concept of dog training clicker is to positively enforce commands, by clicking the device each time a dog completes a command properly, and handing the dog a treat as a reward. Conditioning the dog to hear the clicker causes it to snap to attention eventually, as it associates the clicker with receiving a treat. Here are three basic steps of dog training clicker:

1. Show a food treat to your dog and then giving her to smell the treat. It makes her understand that you are holding something she wants.

2. Perform any actions you want and click the clicker and praise her, as soon as your dog pays attention to what you are holding.

3. Do the steps six or seven times, and repeat over the course of several days, slowly raising the hoop each day.

No more shouting or yanking your dog around in the name of training. Clicker training is the fun, reward based method of dog training that you will both enjoy.

Using the basic steps of dog training clickers, you can teach other tricks and commands, such as ‘come’, ‘stay’, ‘heel’ and ‘paw’.

I thought you might be interested in this article, Potty Training Puppies and Becoming a Dog Trainer.

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