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5 Easy Ways To Help Your Puppy Be More Perfect

Updated: Nov 13, 2024

Here’s how you can prevent the most common problems people face with their puppies.  Remember that prevention is so much easier than cure:

 

Whining:  Once you know your pup is ok, NEVER respond to whining/barking.  They are doing this because they think it is the right thing to do to get them what they need - because it has got them what they wanted in the past.    We have to make sure we never reward this behaviour by responding, and help them see that it never brings any results!

 

Jumping Up:  Make sure you are not encouraging or teaching your pup to jump up without meaning to – this can happen through encouraging excited greetings, or excited play, or ANYTHING we do with our pup where they take their front paws off the ground. Think  ‘Am I training my dog to do behaviours I won’t want later?’

 

Biting:  Never allow chewing of fingers or any play fighting or tug of war games – as fun as it may be for us all.  Although we won’t mind when the puppy is tiny, this will encourage more biting,  and jumping up - and in the long run this will not be what we want at all.

 

Chewing:  Keep your precious things away from your puppy.  And keep your puppy away from precious things and where they can do no harm.  This prevents it all.  Your puppy can have toys to play with,  and be in a safe or supervised place - out of the way of electric wires, table legs, best cushions etc.  Don’t tell your pup off for chewing things - just make sure it can’t happen again because you don’t leave your puppy with things you don’t want chewed.

 

Toilet Training:  It’s our job to get the puppy to the right place, at the right time, for its toilet needs.  Here the crate will be your best friend:  puppy comes straight out of crate to the garden, balcony or puppy pad.  After going to the loo, they can have some short supervised time for free play.  Then put puppy back where you want them to go to the loo. Start with short amounts of time between loo opportunities, and gradually increase. This is how we build good habits, and prevent accidents, which can become habitual.  Its our job to make sure our puppies get it right.

 

It’s all about us humans setting things up for our dogs to succeed.


Please phone me if you want to chat about your dog: 07967 735067 or email: judy@thedevondoglady.co.uk

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