Puppy Training Towards Having A Well Behaved Puppy
When you’re beginning your puppy training to teach how to become a “good dog”, it’s important to teach him not to beg whenever you eat something. One of the best ways to do this is to let him know that he is not allowed to climb on your lap or paw at your leg when you sit down to eat. By teaching your puppy to move to a spot away from you and lie down, you will be doing yourself a great service later in life.
One of the best ways for you to train your puppy not to beg when you eat is to walk him over to a spot away from where you’re sitting and make him lie down. Once he is resting comfortably, you can go to where you are eating and sit down. Keep reaffirming what you want by telling him to “stay” or “stay there”. When he tries to get up you tell him no, or put him back where he was. When you’re done eating, it’s important to go over to him and tell your puppy what a “good boy” he is. Make sure to rub his belly and give him lot’s of positive reinforcement – he did do what you wanted after all. This will take time and diligence, but if you stick with it you will find that your dog learns how to behave while you eat.
Another thing that you need to teach when puppy training is to be polite with his food and dog bones. Often, when we don’t teach our puppies to behave when these things are taken away from them, we find that later they can become very possessive and even violent in some cases, if someone takes food or bones away from them.
This can be a little bit tricky, but from the time he is little, you need to begin to take his food away from him while he is in the middle of eating. Make him wait for a moment or two without getting aggressive, then put it back. This teaches your pet that he can wait for his food without fighting for it because he will always get his food or bone back. When you give it back because he has been patient, give him positive praise for being good and patient. In the training of dogs, this is almost essential, because too many times, children will take food away from a grown dog and wind up getting bitten because the dog wasn’t trained properly.
Also, when you’re puppy training for your pup to be polite, it’s important to teach him what items are forbidden and which ones your puppy can pick up with his mouth. Throughout his life, he will be “bringing” you things with his mouth and not all of them will be for him to pick up. It’s important to teach him a command early on that will tell him that he cannot have a particular item. When working with this type of training, it’s usually a good idea to leave the things your puppy can have within easy reach for him and keep other things out of his way. Of course it’s inevitable that he will get into things he shouldn’t have. This is when you make sure he understands that he is not to have your “treasure” in his mouth. Usually a firm voice will do the trick. When he drops your toy and grabs his own, make sure to let him know how good he is.
Puppy Training Tips For Puppies That Steal Your Clothing
Just like children, puppies require a constant attention in order to keep them out of trouble. They also need to be disciplined in order to get a feel for the rules and what is acceptable in your home. Also just like children, you may have a puppy with behavior issues. There are puppies who think it is a game to steal clothing or other small things from around the home.
Puppies are actually known for scooping up things in their mouths and galloping off with them. When you first get a puppy, you may find yourself laughing this off. However, you will eventually have to stop laughing and deal with the problem. If you let a puppy get away with chewing on or running off with small things, they will become a full grown dog chewing on larger and more expensive things.
There are multiple techniques you can employ to break a puppy of this habit of stealing your things. If your puppy has scooped up an item of clothing or other small object, leave the room immediately and shut the door as you walk out. The next time a puppy sneaks into the corner and grabs a sock in his mouth and proceeds to gallop around waiting for you to chase him, you will see this is all a game to him. If you simply get up and walk out, closing the door, the puppy will undoubtedly drop the sock and cry for you to retune to him.
One more puppy training tip which may get your dog’s attention away from stealing your clothing is to go to the door and rattle your keys. A dog associates this action with you getting ready to take him outside. They actually learn pretty early on that particular sound is followed by someone leaving the house.
Take this opportunity to take you dos for a short walk outside. This will teach the dog to stop trying to engage you in a game of chase over your clothes. This will help your dog focus on something other than breaking your house rules. If you learn to distract your dog’s attention from these bad behaviors before he does them, you are successfully puppy training.
One last puppy training tip you might resort to if others seem to fail is the water trick. You can simply spray a small amount of water towards the puppy when he starts misbehaving. This little squirt will not hurt your dog, but again it serves as a distraction to keep your little puppy from getting into trouble.
So sit back and keep an eye out for your adorable puppy to grab and run off with your clothing, spray a squirt and firmly yell “no!” Your startled puppy will immediately drop the clothes and learn to stop this bad dog behavior.
