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Training Your New Puppy

by Tristan Andrews on May 11, 2009

Training Your New Puppy


When you decide you want to bring a new puppy home, you need to make sure you are ready for the training that goes along with it. You can't just bring home a puppy and think you can let it outside every now and then and be done with it. It doesn't work that way. You will have an adult dog that jumps on people and one that doesn't listen when you tell it something such as sit or stay or come, it will just keep doing what it wants and you really don't want that in a dog.

The reward system is a great way to train you puppy. This means if you puppy jumps up on you and you don't want them too, do not give them a reward or treat. If you say 'no jump' and the puppy says down, then reward her! One thing to remember is to keep the commands simple, dogs don't understand complicated sentences. Sit, stay, come, off, no, down, potty etc are all you need when training you new puppy.

If you get an adolescent dog or an older dog that is not trained, you must start...Read More >>



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