I received this recently from a friend of mine. I have heard it from many others. “…our little Lucy! She is perfect of course the only real problem we are having is jumping up on people when they come in. She LOVES people but that doesn’t mean we have to be all over them when they arrive! She does settle down after 5 mins but would just sooner she [...] Read more »
Patience Rewarded
Can’t say how long this will last. Perhaps tomorrow the leash-pulling puppy will return but today’s honeymoon was truly a treat! Not once did I have to stop and click because Molly was pulling. Even though she was often at the end of the leash as she checked out some interesting smell, she never pulled it taut and certainly didn’t even consider taking off at a gallop. She trotted [...] Read more »
Training Puppies to Like, Accept, Tolerate, Everything!
Training your puppy to like everything… people, big and little, old and young and all manner of things…bikes, skateboards, vacuum cleaners, big trucks, coffee grinders, mixers, hats, big bags, masks, big dogs, tiny dogs, umbrellas and hats is not really ‘training’. It is exposure. It’s super important that you begin immediately – as soon as you bring your puppy home. The learning window in puppies that is wide open at birth [...] Read more »
How to Train Your Puppy to Walk on a Leash
Start training your puppy to walk on a leash as soon as you get him home. You don’t need a leash to begin… in fact, I recommend you simply teach him to follow you off leash. You will need a leash, of course, within the week, if you haven’t already got one. Retractable leashes are fine for a walk with an already leash-trained dog, but for training purposes, you need [...] Read more »
Why Training Puppies is Important
Do we really need to bother training puppies? If we just love them, they’ll grow up to be “good dogs”, won’t they? The truth is we’re training puppies whether we mean to or not. Puppies, and later, dogs, read our body language and actions extremely well and they do it all the time. That’s the canine method of communication. If you haven’t said a word and your dog goes into [...] Read more »
Easy Steps to House Training a Puppy
It used to be that puppy training was a haphazard affair until puppies reached five or six months of age. In fact, from time to time, I still hear that theory promoted. New puppy owners grumbled about in-house accidents but accepted them as part of bringing home a new puppy. About thirty years ago, Dr. Ian Dunbar ( his website is: http://www.dogstardaily.com/ )developed new ideas and methods of training puppies. [...] Read more »