Dog Training Tips - How to Train a Puppy Yourself
By Melissa Simmonds
Dogs are lovable creatures and we just love them! Especially when a new puppy arrives in the family, we just can't explain the excitement that we feel particularly when the cute cuddly creature starts waggling his tail. But alas, cute as they are, puppies can be notorious! They can bark and bark endlessly even in the middle of the night and they can chew on your furniture and dig anywhere on your beautiful garden. Whew! You might summon all the patience you have left not to succumb to the feeling of kicking the animal out of the house. Before you lose all your patience, remember that puppies are puppies and they are like little children who need the guidance of their mothers and all the other older people around them. The puppy has a lot to learn and what better way for it to learn than for you to train it?
Yes, training. You need to train your puppy to behave properly. If you are thinking of the expensive dog training facilities and counting your finances right at this minute, stop it. We do mean you take your dog to any training facility. We mean train it YOURSELF.
"Me, train my puppy? How can I? I am not a professional!" Before you freak out and start cringing at the thought, read on and you may just find that training a puppy does not need the help of professionals at all and may be simple than you least expected it to be.
Here are some dog training tips that can help you in training the puppy yourself.
1. Start training the puppy as soon as it arrives in your house. The earlier it is trained the earlier it will learn to behave properly.
2. Always find a quiet place to train your dog - a place where there is less distraction. You and the pet will have more focus on your training with less noise and distractions around.
3. Never hesitate to give rewards when the pet does something right. Give it a pat on the head, praise it and give small amounts of food that are not usually part of its daily diet as reward. Also give words of encouragement.
4. Limit training sessions to short periods.
5. Be consistent with your training strategies. Keep doing the same thing everyday until the puppy has learned it by heart.
6. Start with simple steps which the puppy can easily adapt to.
7. Never hit your puppy when he does something wrong. Encourage it instead to do better. The puppy will enjoy your training sessions if you are not too strict with it. The more he enjoys the better he will learn.
Always be patient when training a puppy. Like a little child, it can be hard to teach sometimes. But once it has learned a trick and it enjoys every minute of the training session, learning other tricks will be easier for it.
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