Everything You NEED TO KNOW When Training Your PUPPY!

In this video, I'll be discussing everything you need to know when training your puppy.

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1) You want to start training your puppy the moment you bring them home. You should try to get in 1 - 3 sessions each day. Each session should be between five to fifteen-minutes. When training a new puppy, I like to use mealtime as training time. In the beginning, you want to do continual reinforcement, meaning you reward every correct behavior. If you don’t have time to train, don’t feed your puppy out of a bowl. Instead, put the food into a raw bone or Kong and freeze it. Once it’s frozen, you can give that to your dog in the crate. I will help keep them entertained, but it will also satisfy the puppy's need to chew. Don’t try to increase the value of the food. If you do, that’s a lot like giving your dog a pay raise.

2) You’re going to want to start potty training right away as well. I would advise staying away from puppy pads unless you want your puppy to learn to go potty in the house.

3) Confidence building exercises and exposure. confidence-building is simply taking new experiences and associating them with something pleasant, therefore creating a positive association for the dog. Make your puppy believe he’s a super dog.

If something scares them, don’t comfort them while they are scared, but rather act like it’s not a big deal. Dogs will often mimic those they are around most.

Examples:
A) Play tug and let your dog win
B) Have your puppy walk on different surfaces while being rewarded or making it a game.
C) Create a puppy obstacle course

Exposure: Take your puppy out into town as often as possible.

4) You want to make the training as fun as possible, creating a fun learning environment that the puppy wants to keep coming back to.

5) First, you want to start with markers/engagement training | Do 1 minute or so of engagement training before each session. This will help get the puppy into the mindset of learning.

6) Once your dog is conditioned to the markers you want to start implementing free shaping. This will help you create a pro-active dog.

7) Start shaping all the behaviors you would like your dog to perform by first using luring.

8) Next, teach all the behaviors using leash pressure.

9) Once you can get your puppy to perform all of the behaviors with either luring, leash pressure, or both, then you want to start naming all of the commands.

10) You want to teach multiple commands in each session. This makes the training more fun for your puppy and as a side effect, they will learn them more quickly.

11) Once you have a behavior down with the verbal command, then start working the stay command.

Links to episodes referenced in video:

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[TashasFamily]

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[gaurangsingh]

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[lloydwalters]

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[SomeMinorDogTraining]

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[yaimiefeliciano]

I have a 6 week German shepherd puppy and this is helping.

[bisarowood]

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[saarlooswolfhund]

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[binmarcy]

Training a dog and teaching it to be a perfect companion is a lifelong achievement for both the the trainer and the dog. There are so many things you can learn from the dog, one of the most important being learning to stay disciplined yourself. Everyone should train a dog if they want to be a better version of themselves. That's why I want to have a pet dog.

[toyairy]

I am such a bad dog owner, but am using most of the things i'm learning on these videos. My girl was a hoarders dog. 7 months old and the runt, they told me the other animals all bullied her. she was never abused, but she was very rarely handled or played with by humans, they merely fed her the rest of the time i think she was hiding from the other dogs. zero reaction when i wave my hand in her face, she's very happy with the attention now, but it took a few days to get even a little reaction to our attentiion. She wagged her tail first time on the fourth day when i was trying out names, the one she liked that tail just wagged. I think she's brilliant. she is learning so fast. thankyou for your videos, but she will sleep with me and live most of her life on my lap or at my feet or on a leash outside.

[JalikDaStudent]

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[alexisjones]

I have an almost 4 month old German Shepard and she’s so focused when I want to train her. Glad I ran across this training

[ladysabeha]

All you guys are great. I’m sitting here reading the comments, smiling.
I’m taking my 16 yo grandson to pick up his 8 week old GS puppy tomorrow. I will help (guide) him train his puppy, as I’ve trained my GS and other dogs.
I came across this video, and it resonated with me, so I’ve subscribed and sent the link to my grandson.
Bravo for all!!!

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