Puppy Obedience Basics

Puppy obedience starts from the moment you come home with your puppy. It is kept simple and you motivate your pup to do everything. There is no forcing here, keep it fun! Use small food treats and toys.

This will show leadership on your part and shape your pups behavior, which is much easier then changing bad behavior later on. Training your pup is a “lifestyle”! Remember you are training your pup all of the time and every time you interact with him. Even if you not thinking about training your puppy. Read more

Critical Periods In Your Puppy’s Psychological Growth

0 to 7 Weeks
Neonatal, Transition, Awareness, and Canine Socialisation. Puppy is with mother and littermates up to at least seven weeks. During this period, your puppy learns about social interaction, play, and inhibiting aggression from its mother and littermates. Puppies must stay with their mother and littermates through this critical period. As the puppies learn the most important lesson in their lives–they learn to accept discipline. It is at this time that they also learn not to toilet in the nest.

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Puppy House Training, 7 Easy Steps!

Puppy house training is really simple if you follow these 7 easy steps:

1. Crate train your pup: feed pup in crate and have special toy for crate this creates a pleasant experience with the crate. It also keeps the pup out of trouble and safe. It also prepares your pup to travel, or go to the vet, or be boarded and accept being confined.
2. Keep a schedule and write down when you take your pup outside and what he does. After a week you will know what times you can eliminate taking the pup out because he doesn’t go potty at that time most days. Read more

Tips On Eliminating Your Puppy Bad Habits Of Whining, Excessive Barking And Chewing

By: Jonathan Cheong

Anyone who owns a dog or puppy will eventually run into the need to eliminate unwanted habits. While most dogs are eager to please their owners and smart enough to do what is asked of them, it is important for the owner to properly communicate just what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable behaviors.

Each type of unacceptable behavior requires its own specific cures, and in most cases the cures will need to be tailored to fit the specific personality of the dog. Every breed of dog has its own unique personality characteristics, and every individual within that breed has his or her own unique personality. Read more

Dog Training and Your Relationship With Your Dog

By: Melissa Buhmeyer

My best friend is incredible! She’s one of those rare types who hangs on every word you say. She’s content to be quiet when I need stillness, even though she’s one of those high-drive types. All I have to do is call and she’s there in an instant, no matter what she was doing before. She puts me ahead of all her other friends, never fails to make me feel special, and is a redhead just like me. But she’s not a person, even though she’s sure she is. She is a butterfly dog; a Papillon. Read more

Benefits of Getting Dogs Neutered

Health Benefits of Neutering Your Dog:

• Your dog won’t be prone to developing testicle / prostate cancer
• Your dog will be at less risk of getting perineal hernias, and penile tumours
• Won’t have hormone levels that get out of control

Behavior Benefits of Neutering Your Dog:

• Decreased interest in marking their territory indoors and out
• Less aggressive, because hormone levels are more in control
• Acts calmer and will be less likely to wander away from home in search of mating

Source: “What Is Neutering and What Does It Do?”, About.com; Retrieved on December 6, 2008 from http://dogs.about.com/cs/disableddogs/p/neutering.htm

YOUR NEW PUPPY, and what it already knows..

When you bring home your new and adorable bundle of joy, it is probably pretty interesting to know that this infant-like pup between 8-10 weeks old, has learned all it needs to know to become the leader of your home and how to get its needs met from its Mom, and its litter-mates. A pup comes to us with 2 months of hard core training, before it ever reaches our doorstep and gets its new bed, and its new basket of toys.

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Puppy Testing When, Why, & How?

Puppy testing when do you do it, why, and how? These are common questions that people ask. I’m going to answer them for you in this next part of online dog training.

Puppy testing is done when the puppies are 49 days old. Part of the testing is to look at the pup’s physical structure. At that age, what you see is how the puppy will look when it grows up, provided you feed a good diet and proper exercise. If the legs are crooked or the hind-quarters look weak, they will not grow out of it.

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Dog Adolescents

Is your 1 year-old dog driving you crazy? Do you walk twice a day, but she’s still getting into everything? Did your dog behave beautifully in class, but now she sometimes acts like she doesn’t even know her own name let alone what “Sit” means?

Congratulations! Your puppy is growing up. Your dog is now an adolescent. Just like human beings, dogs go through different stages of development, both physically and mentally. A dog’s developmental stages are: Neonatal – 0 to 14 days, Transitional – 14 to 21 days, Socialization – 3 to 16 weeks, Juvenile – 4 to 6 months, Adolescence – 6 to 18 months, and Adult.

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