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How To Teach Your Puppy

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When teaching your puppy to "Sit-Stay," put him on a leash at the beginning of the training. Find a quite area without distractions. Command your puppy to "Sit" and when he does, tell him to "Stay." As you say the command, drop your voice at the end so that it does not sound like a question. Swing your flat open hand toward the puppy, palm facing him as if you were going to touch his nose with it. Stop short of touching him and withdraw your hand. This is the hand signal that goes with the "Stay" command. Take one step back and wait.

Do not be angry or disappointed when your puppy gets up and starts to walk toward you. Do not think that he is dumb or spiteful. Be kind, firm, and patient with him. Say "No," then walk him back to exactly where he was sitting. Again, command "Sit," signal him and tell him to "Stay." He will probably think that "Stay" means just that and he may want to get comfortable and lie down. Most puppies will do this on the "Sit-Stay" at the point when he figures out what "Stay" means.

You could be so excited he is "staying" that you do nothing, however, lying down on a "Sit-Stay" means that your puppy is breaking the command. This is where the test in your leadership comes into play. Your puppy knows that if you fail to correct his breaking of this command, he can break any and all other commands. So when he lies down on the "Sit-Stay," say "No, Sit-Stay!" Saying "No" tells him that he did wrong by lying down. "Sit" tells him what he should be doing instead, especially as you pull straight up on the leash and seat him again. "Stay" repeats and reinforces the second half of the command that he is working on.

As many times as he breaks the command by lying down or getting up, patiently repeat the three words "No," "Sit," "Stay" and place him back where he was sitting in the first place. This is the way for him to test his limits and to learn the exact definitions of vocabulary words. Know that he is not being bad and that he is trying his best to please you.

As he begins to understand the meaning of "Stay," you will want to gradually lengthen the time he will stay. Have him stay for one minute the first time, three minutes the second time, and then for thirty seconds the third time. Your unpredictability will make your puppy pay attention to you more carefully because he will not be able to second guess your timing.

How To Teach Your Puppy

Your happy face and squeally praises presses home the lesson, and te next time you say, "Wanna work?", he will be thrilled to have another session.

Of course, you want to start this training session with as young a pup as possible, 5-6 weeks is perfect. Hopefully he is 6 weeks old or so, before he has had access to something he should not have, and blissfully ruined it. But so many things entice a puppy to chew, since it is a natural behavior for him anyway, how do you teach him what NOT to chew before something valuable has been ruined and his feelings have been hurt with scolding? The method I use is so easy and fast you won't believe you didnt think of it!

Instead of teaching him one thing at a time, which works best with behavior training in general so as not to confuse him with too much information at a time, do it all at once! Place everything you can think of on the floor within his reach. Slippers, clean and dirty cocks, (two different things to a pup) a bunch of different items like keys, pencils, anything you can think of that someday could end up falling on the floor. Leave lots of space around each item so that he will have them separate in his mind.

Take him outside to do his business before beginning any lesson because we do not want him distracted. Place him on the floor in the middle of all this wonderful stuff, and get on your knees or haunches to stay very close to him as he explores each item. Share this fun time with him. As he approaches each item, give him one second to sniff it so that you know he has smelled it and placed it in his brain. If it is a good item like a puppy chewie, make a happy face and say "Good chew! GOOD puppy!" [use his name] If it is a sock or other "illegal" item, make a scowl and slam your palm on the floor beside the item and say "NO chew! NO chew!" and swap the bad item with a legal chewie as you say it, wiggling it to make it more enticing to him to play with and chew, and as he goes for it say, with a big smile, "GOOD chew! GOOD [puppy]!"

After ten minutes, he will be only going for legal chewies and having the time of his life. If you do this one more day with some different items, this will reinforce that only certain items are legal and some new items may turn up that are not legal because they are not the legal items. See? It works like a charm and they never forget it. Your smiling face is a huge reward to a dog or puppy, it is what they live for.

Learning the difference between what is legal and what is illegal to chew is the fastest and easiest thing your puppy will ever learn when you use this method, and it will save you and him much heartache and disappointment in the life of his training.

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