Toilet training your puppy will make life much easier and more pleasant for the both of you. It will make you stop having the accidents that make you clean up after him several times in the day. Start potty training immediately the puppy arrives in your home. The following training tips will help you get your puppy toilet trained in no time.
Before you start, understand that your puppy is a baby that has not learned much about controlling bowel movements. He could urinate or defecate without restraint. Therefore, you should be as gentle as you can. Praise him when he gets it right for reinforcement but do not punish or be harsh when accidents happen. Punishment when he goes in the wrong place will make him associate it with punishment and he will learn to start hiding the evidence.
The first thing is to know the signs to look for when he wants to “go”. He could start running in circles, sniffing the floor, scratching at the door or whimpering. Puppies go to the toilet mostly after eating or immediately they wake up. They like to ‘go’ on surfaces like grass, wood, or soil.
Start by placing a placing a wee wee pad or some newspapers in the place you want him to use as his toilet. It should be far from where you keep his food. Choose a word like pee pee or poo poo that he will associate with ‘going’. As soon as he shows signs of going, take him to the spot and stay with him until he goes. Praise him as he is doing it so that he knows he is doing the right thing. With some persistence, he will know and accept that spot his ‘going’ spot and you will not need to take him again.

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As a child you probably remember instances where you did something good and were rewarded for the action – good behavior, good grades, etc. The basics for training your dog really is not that much different. Although a bit different than a child, the positives that your dog will appreciate are attention and praise as well as food. You will use these things to encourage your pet to repeat the positive actions that you approve of and can be one of the most powerful tools that you have when training your dog for good behavior.

Here is some basic information that will help you successfully use positive enforcement training. Firstly, timing is so important! You want to immediately reward your dog for the positive behavior – they have very short memories and attention spans. Secondly, consider using a clicker to mark these behaviors that you want to encourage – this is helpful for the dog to make the connection between the positive behavior and the resulting treat.

Keep your commands as short and simple as possible. If you have not ever owned a dog and have observed others and their dog training commands you may have wondered why the commands are so short and simple…well, you are talking about a dog and no matter how smart they are there are limitations to what an average dog can learn. The typical sit, stay, down, leave it – they are used so often because they work and dogs can easily be trained to know their meanings.

Lastly you need to remember that consistency is the key to successful dog training. When the dog does something good, make sure you reward, make sure everyone in the family does this too as well as having everyone use the same commands. Also, make sure you are not inadvertently rewarding for bad behavior, for example. Your dog barks and barks, louder and louder so you let him out. This is a perfect example of rewarding bad behavior; instead require him to perform a good behavior for you before opening the door. If you try to think like a dog now and then, you just might end up with the best behaved dog on the block.

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Fundamentally, dog training is about communication. From the human perspective, the trainer is communicating to the dog what behaviours are correct, desired, or preferred in what circumstances and what behaviours are undesirable.

A trainer must understand communication from the dog. The dog can signal that he is unsure, confused, nervous, happy, excited, and so on. The emotional state of the dog is an important consideration in directing the training, as a dog that is stressed or distracted will not learn efficiently.

Don’t get frustrated. There will surely be times in your dog behaviour training that you aren’t going to like how things are going. If this happens, stop the training session right away. Your frustration can cause you to want to force the issue and end up taking two steps backward with your progress.

Don’t forget to praise your dog. Dog training should be fun for both you and your dog. Give your dog plenty of praise for performing correct behaviours. Dog training by nature is oppressive; you are asking your dog to submit his will to yours. This can create stress. Praise is a great way to alleviate that stress. A stress-free dog learns quicker and has more fun.

It’s easy, you have to watch them, start as early as possible and never allow them to make mistakes in the house. If the dog has never peed in the house, it’s foreign to suddenly start..

Positive reinforcements can be anything that the dog finds rewarding – special food treats, the chance to play with a tug toy, social interaction with other dogs, or the owner’s attention. The more rewarding a dog finds a particular trainer, the more work he will be prepared to do in order to obtain the trainer. Just being happy about a dog’s accomplishment is a reward to them.

Make sure you always check your dogs hygiene, a healthy dog always give good response to training than unhealthy ones. Experience has shown so many dog illnesses, but, of them all Canine Distemper, is a serious illness and it is recommended that any dog with an acute outbreak should be taken to a holistic or homeopathic vet to monitor treatment. Home treatment of acute Distemper is not advised and Vi-Pro Plus should be used under the supervision of a holistic or homeopathic vet for cases of active Distemper infections. Also for any other contagious illness, the affected dog should be singled out and treated properly.

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Dog training is the way to go if you want to get the best out of your dog. You can build a lifelong bond between you and your dog through obedience training. A trained dog is more effective and enjoyable as a friend companion and playmate. Though a dog can be trained for different purposes such as hunting, law enforcement, dog sports etc what most dogs require is just basic obedience training.

Dogs are ‘pack’ animals. They live in families called packs where there is a dominant leader. This leader is followed by everybody in the pack. Your dog sees your family as his pack and will naturally follow the leader. If he sees no apparent leader, he will take up the leadership and start dictating the laws. This is the general picture of an untrained and unruly dog. Dog training will help you to assert your leadership so your dog can follow you.

Basic obedience training usually aims to condition your dog to the following six commands; stay, sit, down, come, close and heel. Your dog can be trained by different people. A friend can help or you can get a professional to train him for you. However the best person to train your dog is you. Personally training your dog helps you to create a special bond between the two of you. Understanding grows as you work and play with him and you create the best possible relationship with your dog.

Although you can train your dog at home, the best place to train him is a dog training class. He can get trained with little distraction. You will see experts in action and you will be able to watch, learn and practice. This will reduce the frustrations of training for you and your dog. You will learn how to use commands, teach them to your dog and give proper reward or praise. Your dog will also have the opportunity of socializing with other dogs. Dog training classes will motivate you by giving you help and support.

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Successful dog training is the goal of responsible dog owners. It is not only beneficial to everyone in a household or family but also to neighbors, mail carriers, other pets, and children.

The hard part of course is making a decision on what school of thought to use when training a dog. The best thing to do is to just use some amount of trial and error and decide for your self what will work and what will not.

Training Goals

Training your dog successfully may take some time, but in the end it will be worth it. Consider your goals when training your dog, such as the following:

* To build a report of trust and respect between you and your dog

* To obtain the power to control your dog at any time or at any place

* To wean your dog from a very young age in order for it to be properly socialized

* To achieve results while working with the learning instincts of a specific dog breed

There are many other reasons you might want to train your dog. One of them may be simply so your animal does not tear your entire house apart, and another is so he/she does not drive your household crazy!

Types of Lessons

One major area of training involves teaching your dog to obey you. This requires quite a bit of repetition before your dog is able to understand your commands, such as “sit” or “stay” or “come.”

Another primary type of training of course is puppy training. This usually includes such aspects of “breaking in” your beloved pet: Potty training, behavior correction, and boundary setting.

Of course, potty training is often done while your dog is still a puppy. There are a variety of schools of thought regarding this. Sometimes an area in the house is designated for this or the master of the dog takes the animal straight outside.

One of the latest potty training trends is to train the dog to use the bathroom toilet, believe it or not. Sometimes real or turf grass patches are installed in homes, or even a litter box may be used for this purpose.

Behavior correction of a dog usually involves such aspects of training such as preventing the dog from chewing everything in sight or stopping the animal from digging holes. Boundary setting usually involves activities such as teaching your dog to stay in the yard or teaching the dog where he can go in the house or not go in the house. Additional training you may give your dog would serve an entirely different purpose.

Believe it or not, there is ways to make your pet feel more useful. For example, some people teach a dog how to fetch a newspaper or how to spot hunting prey.

Of course, there are more specialized training schools for pets. For instance, companion dogs and guide dogs are available for blind or otherwise impaired or isolated individuals. This would take additional time though.

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