Puppy Training For Beginners

See what to do and what not to do with your new puppy. Puppies learn by association and repetition just like adult dogs, so don't get too paranoid about moving ahead with training early.

For the most part, training a puppy is nodifferent than training a dog who is 4 years old. The primarydifference between puppy training and training a dog who is an adultis that the puppy has absolutely no experience while the adult dogdoes have experience. While in many ways the same, puppy trainingshould be approached from the standpoint that your puppy is muchsofter and more susceptible to emotional and physical trauma than anadult dog.


List of Do's:


  • Start training your puppy straight away

  • Take your puppy to your veterinarian for an exam

  • Don't leave your puppy unsupervised

  • Buy toys, beds, a leash, a collar and bowls for food and water

  • Teach your puppy the rules of the house as soon as he comes home


List of Don'ts:


  • Solicit advice from your family or friends about puppy training

  • Allow your puppy unsupervised freedom (not even for a minute)

  • Allow your puppy to get away with murder because he's young

  • Stay away from parks because you're unrealistically fearful of health issues

  • Cripple your puppy by being overly protective


Puppy training is really the process ofexercising primary prevention as opposed to tertiary prevention. Ifyou can eliminate problems before they occur, you will be ensuringthe happiness and well being of both your new puppy and your familyas well. For example, if you eliminate a chewing problem before ithas time to progress, you will have eliminated a much more seriousproblem in the future. You need to create an environment that willprevent bigger, more serious problems later on. Dont be shy, don'tbe weak, but don't be a jerk either.


Puppy training has to be approachedfrom the perspective that your life is going to change when you bringyour puppy home. You're not going to be able to do things like youdid them before. You're going to have to make some concessions andaccept the fact that you're going to have to spend time and energytraining you new little buddy.


That being said, you also have torealize that although there will certainly be some adaptations you'llhave to make, you can't start living a totally different life thanyou are used to living. If you do, you're not going to be very happyfor very long and your puppy training efforts will fail. The road todisaster is a road frequently traveled by new dog owners who fail toachieve a balance between their lives and the lives of their newfoundfriends.


In conclusion, understand that althoughyour puppy training efforts will at times feel a bit daunting, iffocused correctly, will bring rewards the likes of which aredifficult to describe. The joy of seeing your puppy develop and learnabout the world around him cannot be understated. Set limits,supervise and observe and don't be too mushy but, don't be a jerkeither.

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