Puppy training begins the moment you bring your puppy home. Reinforcing training for your dog then continues over their entire life span. It is never too early to start training, the sooner you start the better results you will have as the dog gets older.
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My main goal with puppy training is teaching them to live in our homes and manage their mistakes before it spirals out of control.
Training Priorities
Housebreaking
Social
Behavior
Tolerance
to Touch
Puppy
Biting
Destructive
Behavior
I will introduce puppies to the basic obedience commands including:
But it is more important that we work on building a puppy that is confident, social, pleasant, relaxed, fun, and not vocal, destructive, nipping, fearful, anti-social, or pees and poops anywhere in your house.
Sit
Down
Here
Heel
When working with your puppy I shape the behavior while keeping the training fun, so your pup doesn’t even realize he/she is “working”.
In young puppies, we must shape behaviors and create good habits which allow us to avoid problems entirely instead of trying over the life of your dog to fix a problem that really began in puppyhood. I have seen many dogs with behavior problems that have good obedience behaviors because obedience was the focus in the beginning. Obedience is important but it can be trained at any point in a dog's life. I generally begin formal obedience in dogs over 20 weeks old.