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Are you ready for Puppy Training 101? To get going, you should have three particular pieces of equipment to correctly teach your puppy: a training dog collar, a leather training leash, and a 15-foot span clothesline rope.

If you’re already thinking that your puppy’s present leather collar will work, and that his 4-foot chain leash will suffice, you may as well stop reading this article and save yourself and your puppy weeks of discomfort and hardship. There simply is no substitute for the right training equipment. A training collar is a slip-chain type made of metal. Don’t substitute one that’s made of nylon.

One of the many things your puppy is going to learn is to have confidence in you. But he will never develop that feeling of confidence if you substitute improper training equipment that will not be effective. Where there’s no confidence there can be no respect, and no respect means no desire to please. No desire to please means no willingness to learn. Add them all up and you have an uncontrollable puppy that will never achieve his rightful place in human world.

The Proper Leash

Your leash should be of the regular five to six foot leather type with a hand loop at one end. Training dog collars along with leather training leads can be obtained from pet specialists and also through internet catalogs. Training collars are sometimes called choke-chains, which is incorrect. While it’s true that a training collar can choke, if it’s worn on the puppy correctly and used properly, there’s no way it can be a choke-chain and cause harm to your pet.

The Right Collar

The collar should be large enough to slide over the puppy’s head comfortably, but not so large as to fall over the ears if the puppy should lower his head. A good rule of thumb to follow is to place the collar on the puppy and cinch it up tight for a moment and observe whether you have three inches of chain left over. If so, you have a fairly good fit. It is better to have a training collar that’s slightly too large than one slightly too small.

Final Puppy Training Necessities That You Cannot Find In A Store

The remaining equipment that you’ll need cannot be purchased at any store, but without them, you cannot successfully train your puppy.

You must love and care for your puppy! You must have patience and exercise patience while your puppy is learning. A shallow patience put together along with a quick temper is going to assure complete and utter fiasco.

To lose your cool and blow up means the end of training, so here’s a little tip that might help you keep your cool:

It takes 4 to 5 days for an average puppy to learn the average thing. Do not expect your puppy to perform like a professional the first few days of teaching him something new. It just doesn’t happen that way. Should you lose control of yourself, you have lost control of the particular situation. When this happens, your puppy loses confidence in you.

I hope you have enjoyed the first lesson in Puppy Training 101!

This is the next step in puppy crate training.You want to start closing the door for short periods of time, when your pup gets used to going inside and outside of it’s crate.Stay in the room for small periods of time and praise your puppy for relaxing in the crate.  Then start leaving the room and coming back to slide a treat through the door to reward it for staying in the crate.

You will then want to gradually extend your time out of the room to get your puppy used to you not being there.Most times when you start crate training your puppy will cry or whimper when you close the crate door, try to ignore this behavior until it stops.  If you open the door when your puppy is screaming or whining then it just teaches them that all they have to do is scream and you will let them out.

Wait as long as it takes for your puppies o stop making noise and then let them out.Your dog will eventually start to like the crate while calming down inside and cease the hollaring.  I know it’s hard when your cute little puppy is crying to get out, but stick to your guns and you will be glad you did.   Puppy whining is definitely one of the harder aspects of puppy crate training.

If you start to see your puppy go into the crate on it’s own to rest, then that means it feels safe and secure and likes the crate.The crate can not be utilized as a time out for your puppy.Your main desire is to have your puppies enjoy being in their crates and feel comfortable and relaxed inside.You also don’t want to leave your pup by itself in the house at any time.

Most puppies are very mischievous and will quickly start exploring things that you don’t want them to.Not only an issue for the owner of the puppy, but can also be dangerous to the puppy itself.The crate is a great place to keep your puppy safe if you have to take a shower or do something in the house and can’t watch over it.

When your puppy has been in the crate for a brief period of time, take it outside right away and let it go to the potty.When your pup uses the bathroom outside, make sure to begin praises it right at that moment.Your need at this time is to let your puppies learn that this is what you want them to do.

Here you can use another command such as “Good Potty”, “Good Bathroom”, or “Good Outside”.  Your puppy will soon begin to associate this command with using the bathroom outside.When your puppies are done you can bring them back inside.Don’t forget pups can only hold it so long without going to the potty so do this process a lot………consistency counts when puppy crate training!!!

Now that you have your crate, the other things that I would recommend to get before you start your puppy crate training are some toys, a mat for the bottom of the crate, an odor neutralizer (available at most pet stores) and some puppy treats. You might want to obtain some toys that are safe to throw in the crate with your puppy, so it feels more calm inside. You should never confine your puppy to the crate if it was bad because you want it to delight in being in there.

Puppies can choke or digest small objects, so it is wise to be very thoughfull up front in what toys you include in the crate. Many of the toys sold for your puppies are great such as the hard pressed bones or solid rubber toys. DO NOT use rubber squeaky toys or stuffed toys! These can be a choking hazard to you puppies because they break apart real easy. You could get 1 of the hard toys made of rubber, in which they have a hole in the middle so that you could place some pup treats or kibble inside. This will help your puppy adjust to the new crate and help to keep them quiet in the beginning stages of puppy crate training.

Getting a mat for the bottom of the kennel is just to provide a nice comfortable spot for your puppy to lay on, instead of the hard plastic bottom of the crate. You should get something that is simple to disinfect, but not something that your pup will break apart.

The odor nutralizer should be used to wipe up the area of carpet or flooring that your puppy went to the bathroom on. You could use this to productively clean the are of your carpet or floor that was soiled. It will discard the scent from the puppies bowel movement so it will not be baited back to the scene of the crime. Some standard house cleaners include ammonia and therefore are bad for sterilizing the area and might attract your pup again to the scene of the crime.

An assortment of things can be used by you as treats for your dogs. Most treats in the stores are perfectly fine, but with treats made of natural ingredients becoming more popular on the shelves, I would sway that way. It’s just more healthy for your puppies, particularly in it’s largest growth spurt. You want to start your puppy crate training by tossing a few treats in the cage and giving your puppy a command such as “Crate” or “Kennel” as it goes in after the treats. This will tempt the dog in the crate so that it will be anticipating it’s treat. Your puppies should start to begin to get enthused about going inside their crates beacuse of realizing that crate relates to getting treats.

When you use a specific word for you puppy to go in the crate, it should quickly realize what you want it to do when you give the command. If you use a phrase or word that means go inside the crate to your puppies, then before long they will know what you want them to do. When it’s time for your puppies to go in their crates, you can say the magic word that you have selected and they will enter on their own and wait for some puppy treats.

When starting the process of puppy crate training you have to remember that your puppy would love to do nothing more in the world than please it’s owner, “YOU”.You have to take the right strides in the suitable order to assist your pup in understanding what you prefer it to do (don’t use your rug for a toilet!!!!).   You can’t just take a puppy outside and expect it to magically know what you want it to do.

Your puppy probably has the ability to learn a whole lot more than you think, in less time than you think if you learn to train it properly. And I don’t mean waiting til it uses the bathroom on your carpet and then smoosh it’s face in it.   You cannot and I repeat cannot correct a puppy for going to the bathroom in the house unless you catch it in the act. A puppy doesn’t have the wits to comprehend what you are correcting it for some time ago, and you wind up baffling them. Not catching your puppy in the act, defeats the good of any discipline.

Selecting A Crate

The first thing you want to do in puppy crate training is select the proper size crate. A good size crate is one where your puppy has enough room to stand up and turn around in and no bigger.   You might think but I want to give my puppy room to move around and play so it doesn’t feel so confined. Thinking like a human again! It is fine, it’s commonplace that us humans think like that, but your dog doesn’t.

Remember their dens are a place that canines don’t like to use as bathrooms??? If you allow your puppy to have too much room, than it could just use one side for a bathroom and one side for sleeping.  Most of the commercially available puppy crates are sufficient for puppy crate training. I prefer the beige kennels (color does not matter, some people know which ones I’m talking about though) that have black or silver wire doors with locks on them. These types of crates do a super job of retaining the pet hair and dirt on the inside of the crate and not in your home. If you buy a crate that has a divider in it that will allow you to adjust the size, it will save you money by not having to keep purchasing new crate every time your puppy grows.

Learning proper puppy obedience training can lead to a long lasting relationship with your “best friend”. Dogs are great to be around. They can add a lot of value to your life. Dogs can give you a lot of fun as well as friendship and exercise. They can also provide some challenges.

Training your new puppy is one of the biggest challenges for dog owners. This may take quite a bit of time and energy. You must be very patient. Staying commited can be very rewarding in the end, though. Training your puppy will bring you a great friend and companion. There are several commands that someone who starts puppy obedience training for the first time must know.

You want to teach your dog their name as the first command. This will come easily with a lot of consistency and practice. Make sure you call his name clearly and make eye contact. This lets the dog know that you are speaking to them. After short time, the dog will begin to respond if you stay consistent.

The next command you want to teach is “sit”. All of your training stems from this. Many people use the command “sit” over and over to try and get the dog to sit. This approach is really not that great. Your dog will not know what you are saying because they can’t speak English. A much better approach is to actually use your hands and guide the dog into the sitting position while saying the command ‘sit’. This associates the word with the action you want the dog to perform. Make sure you give the dog a treat to reward them once they are in the sitting position. This gives them positive reinforcement for their actions. Again, like everything else in puppy obedience training, it just takes time and consistency.

The next command you want to teach is “come”.” This is very important because your dog will not always be on a leash and you always want to be able to control them, even when they are off the leash. An easy way to accomplish that is to begin with the dog on a leash. Use the command “sit” and walk as far away as you can while holding the leash. After you are away from the dog, use the command ‘come’ and pull the dog toward you at the same time. After a little while of doing this, you should be able to walk away from the dog and use the command, and they will come.

When training a new puppy, these are some of the most basic commands that you will need. Your dog will become a lifelong friend after a while.