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Housebreaking Your Puppy
When you bring home your new puppy, some training must start immediately. With just a few easy housebreaking tips, it won't be long before you can have a puppy and clean floors, too.
Understanding Puppy Physiology
To understand how to housebreak a puppy you must understand just a bit about dog physiology. Unlike humans, dogs have a short digestive tract. What goes in must come out – and rather quickly. That is basic information that makes the difference between a quick efficient housebreaking period and a long drawn out battle with your pet.
Why Puppies Need Frequent Potty Breaks
Puppies, like children, do not have the control over elimination that adult dogs usually have.
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Rule of thumb: The smaller the dog, the more frequently they will need to go outside.
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Puppies are very small! What they eat and drink doesn't stay in their body for very long.
Step One: Start with Newspaper Training
For the first few days or a week, place several levels of newspaper at the door that will be used to take your puppy out. Later he will learn where all the doors are, but at first just use one door to take him out to do his "duty".
Step Two: Establish a Feeding and Water Routine
As much as possible, take the puppy out into the yard about 10 minutes after he eats and 5–10 minutes after he drinks. Though dogs should always have water available, if you are there with him during the day it's fine to just give him the water dish every couple of hours rather than keeping it out all the time.
Step Three: Praise the Right Behavior
When you take your pet outside just set him down and ignore him. Don't play with him, just stay there with him. As soon as he eliminates, immediately praise him as a good dog and take him back inside right away.
Step Four: Handle Mistakes Calmly
He will make mistakes. If you see him in the process of a "goof", don't raise your voice at all. Pick him up (even if he's right in the middle of what he's doing) and place him on the layers of newspaper at the door. As you put him down to finish, tell him "good dog". Don't try to rush outside with him as you'll not make it in time and will confuse him.
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Why Crate Training Is Important
Crate training your dog should begin when he is a puppy, or at least when you first get him, and continue throughout your pet’s life. By making his crate kennel as much a part of his secure and familiar environment as possible you allow him to be comfortable and relaxed around it and neither of you will ever have to endure the horrors of an unhappy crated dog!
Introducing the Crate Early
If you are ever going to have to put your dog in a crate for reasons of travel or housing then the kindest thing to do is to introduce your pet to the idea as early as possible.
The Right Way to Start
That doesn’t mean pushing him in a crate to get him used to the idea! What it means is that you find an appropriately sized crate for your animal, and you put it with him in his room. When you first do this it is a good idea to place a treat inside the crate, put the crate on the floor and leave its door open so your dog can investigate it and enjoy the treat.
Creating Positive Associations
By taking such a casual approach you don’t even have to instruct your pet to go into the crate or teach him anything at all; you merely buy the crate and place it on the floor of his room and let him get used to it being a part of his landscape. It is a good idea to occasionally put treats in the crate so your pet makes positive associations with it.
Comfort and Rewards
By putting a comfortable cushion and even placing new toys in the crate your dog will understand it as a comfortable place where he will be rewarded and find enjoyment. You might even place the crate next to his bed and discover him sleeping there instead.
Closing the Crate Door Gradually
Once your dog has become entirely familiar with the carrying crate you can introduce the idea of the door being closed while he is in there.
Small Steps First
The best way to do this is to put some treats inside for him to enjoy then close the door while he eats them. The first few times this should only be done for a few minutes so he experiences no anxiety over the new situation; and remain by the crate throughout so he doesn’t feel any insecurity.
Making Crate Training Stress-Free
As with all training procedures it is all to do with taking small steps and slowly lengthening them.
Building Confidence
The first time you carry your dog whilst he is inside the case should be only a very short distance, perhaps to your chair where you will place him next to you. Always have the happiness and comfort of your dog foremost in your mind and by the time he is required to use the crate for real, he will be entirely happy with it and it will not seem unusual at all to him.
Crate training your dog should be a gradual affair at a pace which ensures the comfort of you both.
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Puppy training can be both exciting and exhausting; but the time and attention you put in will reward you with a well trained, and house trained, dog who is obedient and a pleasure to live. Training your pup properly is the foundation for a great friendship with your dog. Always remember that puppies are young children; supporting them, showing them kindness and rewards will cause them to be happy confident and loyal companions.
Teaching Toilet Training
Set Up a Puppy Room
The first and most important thing you must teach your new pet is where the ‘toilet’ is. Initially, the best procedure is to set up one room where the animal will sleep eat and play when it is alone; then you must entirely paper every inch of floor space with old newspapers. When you first get a young puppy it is unlikely they will be toilet trained and so it is possible you will have to start from scratch. By papering the whole of the puppy’s environment you ensure it gets used to toileting on newspaper; which is the first step.
Establishing a Routine
For the first few weeks of owning a new dog his toilet routine will be foremost on your mind. A puppy, having a small bladder, can ‘eliminate’ as much as once every hour and if the pup is going to leave the papered room then you need to know when he last ‘went’. The best procedure is to keep an eye on him and if he is to venture outside his room then ensure you take him back to it after 45 minutes, wait for him to ‘eliminate’ and then he can come out again foir another 45 minutes; this way, your house remains smell-free and pup gets used to the idea of eliminating on paper and always eliminating in a specific location – ie, his room.
Gradually Reducing Paper
As time passes you will find that your puppy tends to eliminate in one area of his room and you can then begin to remove the paper from the rest of the room. Don’t do it all at once because there will always be ‘accidents’ but by gradually removing paper over time the puppy makes the association between papered floor and toilet as well as a particular location in the room.
Positive Reinforcement
Lastly, never punish your puppy for his accidents; remember he is a young child and learns best by encouragement and reward. Each time he uses his paper give him some love and praise and this will assist in the house training. Before long you will have a house trained dog and you will have had an enjoyable time puppy training!
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Why Reward-Based Training Works
Though dog training methods differ from one professional trainer to another, one theme emerges time after time – reward based dog training works. Depending on the type of training involved, the items used for positive enforcement differ. In guard and search dog training, it is common to give playtime with a favorite ball or chew toy only after the session.
Different Types of Rewards
Food Rewards
For obedience and trick training, very small edible treats such as dried liver bits are given during the training period whenever the dog properly executes the behavior they are being trained for.
Praise and Affection
A few trainers use only the pleasure the dogs takes from human approval, with playtime and romps and with much petting and verbal praise.
Why Negative Reinforcement Fails
Trainers know something that some inexperienced dog owners don't realize – negative enforcement such as scolding, jerking on a lead, or any harsh punishing behavior don't work. In training a dog it is necessary to be firm, calm and kind. If a pet owner loses his temper, raises his voice or his hand to his pet, he is teaching a totally different lesson.
The Dog’s Natural Temperament
The temperament of dogs is such that they want to please. The challenge of teaching them basic obedience, behavior modification, or advanced tricks is to be able to let the dog know what it is you want him to do. He does not have language skills; he does not understand when you point or push at him. Yet he is willing to do almost anything you ask – IF you ask so that he can understand.
Creating Positive Training Experiences
Anything that frightens or threatens your pet during training is detrimental to the results you will achieve. You want an animal that is excited when you get out the training lead or take him to the designated training area. You do not want him to cower in fear because he has been punished on that lead or in that area.
Building a Companion You’re Proud Of
If you are kind, firm and consistent in your dog training methods, you will in time have a canine companion to be proud of.
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Clicker Dog Training
Offering your dog praise and encouragement is a powerful training tool; but by adding clicker dog training methods to this tool you can cut your dog training time in half. The ‘clicker’ referred to in the name of this method is a simple sound making device; and could, actually, be a whistle or anything else. The clicking device is preferable just because it is distinctive and instantaneous. The method is as simple as the device, simply stated, you click when your dog does something you wish him to do; then you reward him.
The Power of the Clicker
The simplicity of this method is a little distracting; in practice, you train your dog in the same way you would without a clicker, so there’s nothing new to learn, exactly. The difference is more clearly observed in the effect. The clicker acts as a punctuation mark, or an ‘event marker’: ie, it’s sound communicates your approval the very instant that an approved behaviour or action takes place and your pet is in no doubt as to what he is doing which has earned your favour.
Teaching Your Dog the Clicker
Building the Association
So, there is a little time necessary to train your dog to understand the clicker; but once the connection has been made, the training continues at a much faster pace. To teach your dog to respond to the clicker it is necessary to associate, in your pet’s mind, the clicker with approval. So, initial use of the clicker will be followed immediately by food and praise. For example, you tell your dog to sit, he sits, you click and feed him while telling him how good he is in an approving tone of voice.
Primary Reinforcers
The initial training needs to be done close by so the click can be almost simultaneous with food. The food and praise are known as ‘primary reinforcers’: they are the specific rewards your dog works for and desires and by clicking exactly as they are rewarded, your dog makes a direct association between these events.
Advancing Training with the Clicker
As time passes and your dog begins to make the association between click and food, the food can be delayed. By doing so it means you can begin to train at distance; always remembering that the click must be made at the exact moment a desired behaviour or action takes place. In this case, the click becomes a ‘secondary enforcer’: is becomes a signal that the actual reward is to come.
Why Clicker Training Works
Much of the time spent in training can come from the difficulties of communicating effectively and this method cuts down on confused signals – clicker dog training has become extremely popular since it’s effectiveness seems unarguable.
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