Puppy Sellers

If you have been following my blog posts on training you will already have worked out that the emphasis of my advice is on establishing a pecking order in your family, much the same as a dog would naturally do in the wild.  After all, a dog is an animal with animal instincts, and it’s much easier to train a puppy to grow into a dog that does what you want if you use the innate senses they were born with to help you…

So you’ve established who’s in charge at feeding time.  This is a powerful time to conquer and an important one.  This is particularly so with puppies that will inevitably turn into big dogs.  You do not want big dogs jumping around your kitchen and up and down our clothes clawing for their food.  You should have taught them their place and you will have to remain consitent.

This goes the same for greeting your puppy.  As hard as it may seem to you now, you will thank me for it in the long run; particularly if you have big dogs to come.  In the same way you don’t want dogs jumping on you at feeding time, you also don’t want them doing it when you walk through the door, and when you get up first thing in the morning.

When you enter the house from being out for a while, or when you come downstairs for the first time in the morning you must ignore your puppy completely.  Ignore everything it does until it calms down.  You must do something here like move around and make a drink or make your packed lunch or what ever.  This further establishes you as the boss in the house, and you are not to be approached until you call them.  This is what you do, when YOU are ready, and the puppy has calmed down.

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