Training the puppy

Here are some basics that allow you to better understand how puppy training begins, as a dog trainer would do. The dog who arrives in his new home is a being who expresses himself differently from those who already live in this house and communication is not always the simplest.

Training the puppy: the puppy between its mother and its new family

When he leaves his mother, the puppy arrives in a whole new family. He will quickly feel at home, receive affection and demonstrate his affection but he must learn with the members of this family, the rules of life with humans.

He has already learned a lot of things from his mother but that is not quite what he needs to live in harmony with men. The puppy, for example, knows that we do not do our business where we eat or where we sleep: it learned this from its mother. On the other hand, he doesn’t know that we don’t relieve ourselves where humans eat and sleep, that is to say, in their house!

The puppy is still a baby

Puppy training can begin from 3 or 4 months with the potty training stage. The puppy is still a baby who does not know how to hold himself well when doing his business. When the puppy begins to familiarize himself with his new home, he gradually learns which places are best not to do his business, because it is not pleasant for him. On the other hand, he is still a baby and he cannot show his owner that he needs to go out. He will do it without delay, however, once he understands that we do not relieve ourselves inside.

Puppy training: here and now

Puppy training is not easy to implement when you don’t understand

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not dog behavior. It’s not that the dog doesn’t have a memory because he does, but he must be able to understand what is done and not done, at the moment it happens and not once it happens. is finished.

Essential factor in puppy training: repetition
Also, it is essential to educate a puppy to always repeat orders, punishments, reprimands and rewards in the same circumstances and with the same words and same gestures. This really makes education easier. In fact, the dog will memorize much more quickly the context in which an action is expected from him or inaction.

Puppy education, the language problem

Dogs and humans do not speak the same language and this is what poses a problem in education. It is common for the owner to see his dog wagging his tail and showing joy when he should not. For example, this can happen when the owner comes home and his dog has done something stupid in the middle of the living room. The master is furious but the dog is happy to find his master and does not remember what he did in the living room.

It is also common for the dog to act in a way that is incomprehensible or confusing. For example, the dog lowers its head and makes itself small when the owner is angry, hoping that it will calm down, but this attitude is often taken for guilt when the dog feels none. Puppy training must take these “language” differences into account.