Training a Puppy

[KevinmH9]

I lived with a few people during my last semester of college and we had a little golden retriever puppy. I think the most cruel training you could do would be to resort to a shock collar. We kennel trained him for awhile before he became used to it becoming his bed at night. The most important training you can do is potty train your puppy, though. After several weeks of taking him outside, letting him do his business, rewarding him both by treats and verbal reinforcement, he became used to going to the door when he needed to go out.

Find your nearest pet store, too. Most will have some books you can leaf through that will give you step-by-step training schedules you can follow to ensure that your puppy is trained properly.

 

[The Granny]

I lived with a few people during my last semester of college and we had a little golden retriever puppy. I think the most cruel training you could do would be to resort to a shock collar. We kennel trained him for awhile before he became used to it becoming his bed at night. The most important training you can do is potty train your puppy, though. After several weeks of taking him outside, letting him do his business, rewarding him both by treats and verbal reinforcement, he became used to going to the door when he needed to go out.

Find your nearest pet store, too. Most will have some books you can leaf through that will give you step-by-step training schedules you can follow to ensure that your puppy is trained properly.

The Grandpa, is a rare moment of stupidity (OK, more a rare moment of being flat-out cruel) thought about getting something called a "shock pad" to keep our cat off the couch. I told him, sure, spend the ****ing money to get it. But, when we get home, you're going to sit on it first then decide if you want to use it.

He brought it back an hour after sitting on hit and got his money back. What did I get out of this? ****, 20 years of comedy to come.

 

[KevinmH9]

I lived with a few people during my last semester of college and we had a little golden retriever puppy. I think the most cruel training you could do would be to resort to a shock collar. We kennel trained him for awhile before he became used to it becoming his bed at night. The most important training you can do is potty train your puppy, though. After several weeks of taking him outside, letting him do his business, rewarding him both by treats and verbal reinforcement, he became used to going to the door when he needed to go out.

Find your nearest pet store, too. Most will have some books you can leaf through that will give you step-by-step training schedules you can follow to ensure that your puppy is trained properly.

The Grandpa, is a rare moment of stupidity (OK, more a rare moment of being flat-out cruel) thought about getting something called a "shock pad" to keep our cat off the couch. I told him, sure, spend the ****ing money to get it. But, when we get home, you're going to sit on it first then decide if you want to use it.

He brought it back an hour after sitting on hit and got his money back. What did I get out of this? ****, 20 years of comedy to come.

Thank you, Granny. The shock collar is only going to strike fear into your puppy and may result in a more cruel personality when it gets older. If you have a shock collar, get rid of it immediately because you wasted your money.

 

[slappy4428]

Changing crates can be expensive. You can start with a large one, one big enough for it when it is grown, but "make it smaller" for now by putting something like cinder blocks in there to block of access to the back part of the cage. The need to have just enough room to stand up and turn around when crate training. After they are fully trained, they can have access to the whole cage.

Be sure to take them out to potty very often. Pups have tiny little bladders and can't hold it for long. Punishing for potty accidents will confuse them. If they start to go inside, calmly say "no, outside" and take them outside, even if they have already finished doing the deed. If you punish them, they start to think going potty is bad all around.

Also, especially with puppies, they will usually need to go to the bathroom right after eating. This is the best way to start with the potty training. Every time you take them outside, say some kind of command like, "go potty," or "do your business," and they will start to associate it with going to the bathroom and will know what you want them to do.

Exercise, whether it be from walks on the leash or chasing a ball in the yard is very important. The more you exercise a puppy, the less trouble it will find to get into in the house, because it'll be too worn out to find too much trouble.

I'm currently training a puppy right now, and it can be a lot of work, but getting it done while they are puppies is much easier than having a full-grown, untrained dog. Although, I adopted my older dog when he was already a year or so old, and I think he was much easier, but he was already house trained.

You know your puppies

 

[qtlaw]

Great advice. Thanks a lot.

Have already started reading up on crate training and potty training.

 

[Boom_70]

Great advice. Thanks a lot.

Have already started reading up on crate training and potty training.

Crate training is the way to go . Everytime you take puppy out of crate be sure to take them outside,

As far as crate size buy largest needed and make smaller with Milk cartons that you can remove as dog gets bigger.

Keep the crate in a main area of house so they don't become territorial.


Whenever you see puppy sniffing that it tell tail sign they need to go to bathroom. Pick them up and take them out.

I use invisable fence for my dogs - there is a shock element but once they get one "correction " that is pretty much it for the shock. The tradeoff is that they have free reign of the yard to roam.

When puppy is eating mess with them a bit - pull their food away ect. they are then less apt to be too protective when eating and bite someone . some dogs can get pretty testy

 

[Ace]

Crate training is the way to go . Everytime you take puppy out of crate be sure to take them outside,

As far as crate size buy largest needed and make smaller with Milk cartons that you can remove as dog gets bigger.

Keep the crate in a main area of house so they don't become territorial.


Whenever you see puppy sniffing that it tell tail sign they need to go to bathroom. Pick them up and take them out.

I use invisable fence for my dogs - there is a shock element but once they get one "correction " that is pretty much it for the shock. The tradeoff is that they have free reign of the yard to roam.

When puppy is eating mess with them a bit - pull their food away ect. they are then less apt to be too protective when eating and bite someone . some dogs can get pretty testy

That's how 21 trained Boom, so it must work.

 

[21]

Still have to use the shock collar, sometimes, but only during Jets games.

Actually, Boom trained my puppy, and I have never had a minute of trouble with her. Be consistent, use the same routine and the same words over and over. Don't let the kids change the routine; the puppy has to know there's only one way to do something.

You're still going to have accidents, don't freak out. Get some good pet cleanup spray, like Nature's Wonder.

 

[Buck]

Enjoy your puppy, but leave room for dessert.

 

[txsportsscribe]

Enjoy your puppy, but leave room for dessert.

why are you so evil?

 

[Buck]

Enjoy your puppy, but leave room for dessert.

why are you so evil?

I blame society.