The First Week
Since puppies are so impressionable, it is important
to begin explaining the rules right away. Don't give her special
license to get away with anything just because she is a puppy. If
you allow her to have her way about certain things now, she will
only be confused later when you decide to change the rules.
From: www.perfectpaws.com
Puppy Training Tip
If you can structure the environment in such a way
that the puppy is never rewarded for jumping and make sure the puppy
is consistently rewarded for sitting instead, you will have an adult
dog that doesn’t jump when greeting people. In fact an adult
dog with this type of history will impress your friends by sitting
when it greets guests.
There are other great instances of this principal,
such as getting your new puppy accustomed to going potty on a particular
kind of surface. An example may be teaching your pup to potty on
gravel and it will be less likely to go on surfaces unlike gravel.
I find this principle particularly troublesome when dogs stay with
me that where conditioned as young pups to potty on concrete. When
these dogs stay with me for a short amount of time it can be almost
impossible to recondition them to potty in a more hygienically appropriate
area of my yard.
A good deal of this resistance to change can be
explained by the phenomena of imprinting. There are certain times
when a puppy’s brain is developing in a way that enables life
experiences and successful behavior to become permanently wired
connections. By training at this age you are actually building your
puppy’s brain and its future behavior.
During puppy training you need to remember, puppies
don’t have the endurance of an adolescent or adult dog. Puppies
can be very active for short amounts of time and then they need
to rest and sleep. Some believe this rest helps the puppy build
those important brain connections, as well as the muscle and bones
of a developing body.
When puppy training we must respect, understand,
and use the rules Mother Nature has imposed upon the system we experience
as a developing individual.
From: 101-dog-training-tips.com
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