Getting Started Training Your Puppy

Getting Started Training Your Puppy

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1. Establish a routine for your puppy. This includes feeding times, potty breaks, and learning sessions
2. Socialize your pup early. Introduce them to other dogs and people in a safe, supervised environment.
3. Use positive reinforcement. Offer treats, affection, and verbal rewards when your pup behaves well.
4. Crate train your puppy. This will help them feel secure and make potty training easier.
5. Exercise your puppy often. This will help them stay healthy and tire them out, promoting good behavior.
6. Supervise your puppy at all times. This will help them learn what is acceptable behavior and what isn’t.
7. Teach your puppy basic commands. This will help them feel secure and give you control.
8. Be consistent with discipline. Don’t reward bad behavior or they may learn that it is acceptable.
9. Groom your puppy regularly. This will help them get used to being handled and will help build a bond between you.
10. Provide your puppy with plenty of toys and chews. This will help entertain them and keep them from chewing on inappropriate items.

Taking care of puppies can be a wonderful and rewarding experience. They bring joy and love to their owners and it is important to provide them with the best care possible. Puppies need a lot of attention and love, but also need to be taught proper behavior and obedience. As the owner, it is important to provide them with a safe and comfortable environment, proper nutrition, physical exercise, mental stimulation, and regular veterinary checkups. It’s also important to socialize puppies to ensure they are comfortable around other people, animals, and environments. With the right care, puppies can become happy and healthy members of the family.

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Summary:
When you decided to get a dog, I’ll bet you daydreamed about the great times you’d have with your new best friend. However, there are many things that you need to consider in order to keep your pooch happy and healthy. Things that perhaps you’d rather not even think about!

When you decided to get a dog, I’ll bet you daydreamed about the great times you’d have with your new best friend. However, there are many things that you need to consider in order to keep your pooch happy and healthy. Things that perhaps you’d rather not even think about!

When you go to the veterinarian he may ask you to bring along a urine sample from your dog. How do you do this? Your dog surely won’t be able to hit a sample bottle. The easiest way to accomplish this is to tape a polythene container to the end of a yard stick. While your dog is out doing his business, position the container underneath his urine stream. This is easier to do with male dogs than female dogs but you can usually get a sample with one or two tries. Your veterinarian will want as fresh a sample as possible so if you won’t be taking the sample to the vet right away, keep it refrigerated until you bring it in. Your veterinarian will be checking the sample for a variety of things like bacteria and crystals. If bacteria is found it could mean that your dog has a urinary tract infection and will most likely require your dog to be put on a course of antibiotics. Crystals form in the urine whenever minerals bind together, there are several different kinds of crystals and these are most often treated with prescription diets.

If your veterinarian asks for a stool sample it could mean that he suspects that intestinal parasites are bothering your dog. They can get these by eating fecal matter from another affected animal, carcasses, or other unsavory things. You will want to bring in a fresh sample. The doctor will examine it under the microscope and look for telltale eggs of parasites. Commonest parasites are roundworms, hookworms, whipworms, and tapeworms. Several of today?s monthly heartworm medications also protect against roundworms and hookworms. If you live in the country or your dog is outside for much of the day, he may need to be treated with a tapeworm wormer on a quarterly basis. Other diseases like coccidia, can also be seen under the microscope from your dog?s stool sample.

What about anal glands? The anal glands are two small glands located just on the inside of your dog?s anus that secrete a foul smelling liquid. Usually the glands will be emptied when your dog defecates. Unfortunately, in some dogs, the anal glands become impacted and do not empty properly. If your dog is urinating more than usual or licking his hind quarters more often, there may be a problem with his anal glands. In this case it’s important to make an appointment with your veterinarian who will check the anal glands by gloved touch. If the anal glands are full, he will be able to empty them manually. it is possible, however, to learn how to do this yourself at home. Some dogs require their anal glands be manually emptied regularly. Some owners have their dog?s anal glands surgically removed but if you choose to do this, discuss the possible outcomes with your veterinarian as there is often a risk of fecal incontinence if the surgery goes awry.

Occasionally in dogs, dandruff is just dandruff caused by skin allergies, nutritional deficiencies, or improper grooming. Sometimes, however, dandruff can be a sign of a parasite called mange of which there are a few different types:
a) Demodectic Mange is caused by a mite which all dogs have but are rarely adversely affected by it. Sometimes however, there can be an overabundance of these mites which causes skin irritation and hair loss.
b) Sarcoptic Mange (also known as scabies) is caused by another type of mite. A female mite buries herself in the dog?s skin and lays her eggs there. When the eggs hatch, the cycle begins again. This causes severe skin irritation and hair loss in dogs but is easily treatable.
c) Cheyletiella Mange is caused by a large mite that lives on the surface of the dog?s skin. This infestation is also known as ‘walking dandruff’. This type of mange causes minor skin irritation but is easily treatable with topical medication.

So, now you can talk about those unpleasant things! It’s important that you are properly educated and can recognize signs and symptoms so that you keep your dog as healthy as he can be.

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To teach your dog tricks even easy ones you need to have some small reward treats, be in a quiet suitable place and keep the training sessions to 10 – 15 minutes or your dog will start to get board, remember when he gets something right lots of praise and a reward treat, just be careful not to get him over excited or he will loose concentration.

Getting your dog to give you his paw, first get your dog to sit, then as you say the word ‘paw’ take your dogs paw in your hand, give the dog a treat, repeat this, after a few times do not take his paw so quickly, say the word, count to one then take it, you should notice he is bringing his paw up as you say the word if he does not go back to saying it at the same time, do it a few more times then slow your response again. After 2 or 3 sessions most dogs pick this one up quite happily.

The high five, like a lot of tricks the high five is a progression of an earlier trick, in this cast the paw trick. Hold a treat in your fingers and raise your hand slightly higher than you would for the paw trick. You dog will think you want to do the paw trick and will reach for the treat with his paw as we taught him earlier, as he reaches up you say “high five” and give him the treat. Once your dog has mastered the paw trick this one should be very easy to learn and with just a few sessions he will be doing it on hand signal rather than voice control.

Getting your dog to jump through a hoop. Before you start this one I would just like to ask you to be a little sensible and not hold the hoop too high as you do not want your dog to hurt himself while doing the trick. Sit your dog on one side of a hoola hoop, get the dogs attention on your hand on the other side of the hoop. Take a treat in your hand and give the dog the command to release him from the sit.

At first they may attempt to go around or under the hoop. If this happens start again. Your dog wants the treat and will soon learn that going around or under does not get it so they will soon start going through it. When he does say “hoopla” and give them the treat. They will soon be jumping through the hoop on the command of “hoopla”. When I started doing this trick I had a medium sized dog (a Labrador) so I started with the hoop 6 inches from the ground and slowly raised it to waist height. If you have a smaller dog you might want to start with the hoop touching the ground so the dog just goes through the hoop and then slowly raise it as they gets used to the trick.

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Leash Training Your Puppy or Dog

How to get your dog to stop pulling on a leash. So many people struggle with walking their dog, right? I’m going to give you 6 things, 6 very basic small things, that will help any owner and any dog master this very easily. We’re not going to use any tools no prong collars, no e-collars. This is so very simple that anyone can conquer this very important task.

Getting Out The Door

1.) The first thing you have to conquer is going out the door. Give your puppy plenty of space and don’t ask for anything. All that you need is for them to respect that space. So that means when the door opens they are not to blow through it. They should respect your space and relax and then you can move forward. That is number one! If you come blowing through the door with your dog you fail right there. You’re not ready to move ahead to walking, you have to conquer that first.

Verbal Markers and Release Commands

2.) Now the second thing that you need is a release word or marker. Some people use clickers but I use verbal markers like a lot of people do. So for the people that know nothing about dog training what that means is you either use a clicker or a verbal marker. Some examples of verbal markers are sit, stay, heal, stop. no, etc. You ask your puppy to do something using your verbal marker, they do it and then you follow with the reward.

The release marker is also very important. You won’t believe how many people I work with that don’t have a release command for their dog. It’s very important that your dog knows when they are to be in command. But it’s also important that they know when they don’t have to be in command. Commonly used release words are “okay,” “break,” and “free.”. It makes things very confusing when you don’t have that release command. Use a reward marker and a release command.

Leash Pressure

3.) The next thing we have to talk about is the dog has to understand leash pressure. What I mean by leash pressure is straight line please pressure. Your puppy has to learn how to yield to leash pressure. When I say straight line I mean you put it flat, parallel to the ground,and you apply a little pressure pulling toward you and they move toward you with the pressure. That’s very light pressure moving them. I know that’s very basic and very simple but you’d be amazed on how many people don’t teach leash pressure and the dog has to understand it.

Turnabouts

4.) Number four is turnabouts or 180’s. What that means is if your dog is on your left, which they’re going to be, you are going to turn 180 degrees away from the dog. So you are going turn to the right and go the other way. One of two things are going to happen. Either your dog is going keep going and when they get to the end of the leash they will feel the tension and turn and catch up to you. That’s a good thing, that’s what we want.

The other thing that may happen is the social pressure of staying with you will cause them to turn around. Just practice turning walking up and down the street. Turn in a 180 degrees away from the dog get them to follow you whether it’s the leash helping or them seeing your body going the other way and they just follow. Both are very beneficial!

Follow The Left Leg

5.) Next we have to teach the dog to follow the left leg. We want them along the left leg and only moving when the left leg moves. The easiest way to do that is to break it down into little baby steps. In order to show them what we mean by sticking by the left leg you move your right leg and you don’t want them moving. You want them moving with your left foot. Step slowly moving your right leg and make sure that your puppy doesn’t move. Now step with your left and have them move with you. Just repeat these slow steps and have your puppy move only when you move your left leg. Continue until they only move with your left leg.

Taking Left Turns

6.) The last thing is very, very effective and I never see anyone do this. It creates incredible results very fast. So a lot of people know that when they practice taking left turns they turn into the dog. The dog is at your left and you make a left turn into them and what happens is you wind up bumping the dog. So this method is a lot better than just making a left turn into them. What you’re going do now is as you are walking turn 180 degrees all the way around like earlier.

But this time not away from the dog but make a left 180 degrees into the dog. But most importantly is you take your right leg and swing it all the way around emphatically. What happens is the dog follows and is gonna stick to the left leg and it starts working on that rear end awareness where they start turning into it. So you are going swing the right leg and have the dog follow the left leg. Practice this over and over and it won’t be long before your dog is turning with with ease.

A Couple Of Tools

The e collar and prong collar. The prong collar works on the concept that evenly applied pressure is gentler and more effective on a dog’s neck than the quick jerk and impact of a choke chain. Also the steady, relentless pressure of a flat collar or muzzling and constant pull of a gentle-leader. The E Collar is a remote dog training system that usually consists of a wireless remote and a wireless receiver. E Collars allow you to remotely send signals to your dog to help them understand “good behavior” and “bad behavior.” If you start yanking the wrong way on a prong collar or you start hitting wrong buttons on the e-collar what you are doing right from the start is creating conflict.

The Prong Collar

Conflict is the biggest enemy in dog training. What a lot of people do is they put the prong collar on the dog the dog falls and they start yanking. That’s not how the prong collar is supposed to be used. And that’s why they’re always in the spotlight as a negative tool. But if you go through these 6 things and the dog understands leash pressure then the prong collar works wonderfully. With that I mean just fantastic it makes it very easy and effortless.

The E Collar

The same thing with the e collar. Don’t put an e collar on a dog if he has to be trained properly with it. How I do it is you go for a walk the dog starts forging and they’re pulling out. By using very little leash pressure just a tap tap on the e collar and the dog will fix themselves. The dog won’t even need leash pressure. If they start pulling ahead of you and they have their e collar on you just tap, tap they are going to fix themselves. It makes it effortless and the structured walk is the most important train training tool we have in dog training. It’s so beneficial and so effective and can create so many well-behaved dogs in the household for anybody. Every person and every dog on the planet should be capable of the most simplest form of dog training and what comes natural to a dog.

Conclusion

So what it does all of this mean? If you can master these things it creates happy owners and it keeps dogs out of shelters.

You have to master the structured walk. The structured walk again is walking at your side, you’re relaxed and there’s no tension. The dog is relaxed and their one job is to follow you. There’s no sniffing, there’s no pain there’s no stopping, there’s no fixating on anything. It’s just a very natural beautiful walk, very therapeutic for both you and your dog.

The release command is so important. Find a spot where you want your dog to be a free dog and let them be. You release your dog and now they know they no longer have to be in command. They can go do all their doggy things like pee on things for example. They can be a dog and that’s very, very important. This kind of simple stuff keeps dogs in the home and out of the shelter’s. It keeps dogs and owners happy. It is the most effective training tool we have and it’s not being utilized. You have got to utilize this piece of advice.

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A national Valentine’s Day campaign was launched today to pressure politicians to close down puppy mills in Canada.

The letter-writing campaign was inspired by Ruby, a survivor of a puppy mill whose health was seriously compromised by six caged years of life in a mill as a breeding dog. Ruby, who was rescued by campaign organizer and author Mary Giuffre of Bewdley, died just two years after her rescue.

“So that Ruby’s life was not lived in vain, we have made a commitment to educate everyone about the horror of puppy mills,” says Giuffre. “Our plan is to let her example lead the way. Ruby’s Love Letter campaign delivers a serious message in a peaceful way, so we believe February 14 is the perfect day to spread the word. Imagine a flood of red envelopes reaching government officials on Valentine’s Day every year.”

The Ruby Campaign is intended to urge politicians to toughen laws and stop the growth of this underground multi-million dollar business…..

Read the rest of the story click here ►► Ruby’s Love Letter

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