For those of you who raise dogs as household pets, training them is not a simple task, so right from the start, owners need to have effective training methods. Let’s find out with Dogsbreed.org how to train obedient puppies for beginners!
When we raise any animal, we will have no less difficulty in raising and training. But there’s still a way to nurture and domesticate dogs. If you’re looking for a way to train your puppies, don’t miss this article.
1. Set clear rules for puppies
Give clear rules for puppies. They need to know the specific rules on the first day of their new home. You should come up with rules that are easy to implement. For example, if you don’t want a puppy to climb the stairs, you can install a stairway gate to stop them.
In case you don’t want your puppy training to ask for food on the table, you shouldn’t give them your food. Note that you shouldn’t scream your puppy too much because it won’t put much faith in you anymore.
Later, even if there were no gates, they didn’t cross the border. Because in their invisible minds they’ve established that there’s no duty, no admission. So you formed a rule for your puppy.
In cases where dogs have bad manifestations, you shouldn’t scream. The more you scream, the more scared you are and the more you don’t trust you, giving rise to rebellion. That kind of puppy training won’t work.
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2. A worthy reward
You can’t train puppies without rewarding them. Most puppies respond pretty well to food rewards. However, you need to be aware that when training comes with the reward is food, or “smoking food” or dog food.
You should only reward a small portion, or their daily food will work. Some puppies react well to toys.
You can reward a puppy who likes to catch an object by throwing the ball away whenever they do the right thing, or if the pups like something else, you can give them a game of shrinking.
However, rewarding with toys will take longer, and can make a puppy too excited to take part in training, or get bored after a while. Toys often work for fast reflex training.
Praise the puppy. In addition to giving rewards, you need to combine some more compliments for them. It’s also a reward for my puppy.
3. Shorten training time with each session lasting about 10-15 minutes
You should keep your training sessions filled with new and fun content, such as some games you make up yourself. If you see your puppy starting to get bored, distracted, or upset, you need to stop training and take a break.
If the puppy begins to feel uncomfortable, you should stop the training session here. However, you should end with praise and rewards. This way the puppy will feel excited for the next training session.
You should train for at least 10-15 minutes every day to help your puppies learn new commands faster.
4. Train your puppy to the bathroom
Knowing when to go to the dog’s toilet
Each dog will have different toilet duration depending on their size. With larger breeds, urination is longer and less frequent than with smaller breeds. Because of the body structure, the size of the bladder is bigger, it contains more water.
In addition, based on daily observation, the owner also needs to understand each behavior, manifested every time the dog is sad to go to the bathroom.
What you need to note is that you should train your puppy when it’s 12 weeks old. Now the formative organs are relatively perfect, they can consciously control their behavior.
Set a fixed feeding time for puppies
The establishment of a specific life cycle for a dog will contribute to the success of training your puppy to go to the bathroom. Usually, dogs eat between two and three meals a day and go to the bathroom after eating.
So you need to set your meal times so you can control when your dog needs to go to the bathroom. Each meal should only be fed adequately, within 20-30 minutes afterwards, you should store the remaining food.
If dogs always have food available, they can eat whenever and go to the bathroom wherever they want. Dogs will think that we are not in control of the daily food source, leading to disobedient behavior.
Instructions for training dogs to go to the toilet
Combined with the act of going to the toilet, you need to use a quick and decisive voice command such as: “Toilet”, “Go to the toilet”.
From there, the dog’s brain will associate its behavior with your command and help it understand that the next time you shout that command, it will be allowed to go to the toilet. Consistency needs to be maintained throughout your puppy training.
See more ways to teach dogs to toilet in the right place on Dog Lifestyle! This will help your pet know how to defecate in the right place like a dog litter box, so you no longer have to have a headache when having to clean up their “battlefields” everywhere in the house.
5. How to train your puppy to shake hands
Holding hands is a higher level of puppy training, requiring a lot of attention from the owner and the dog.
First, you need to prepare a gift cake or food that your dog loves to start the dog’s handshake. Don’t reward too much at a time, just use a small sample of food each time.
Try to ignore all other seductive actions like licking your hands or smelling your hands to ask for food. Just let them concentrate on one single thing, they can get food. They’ll be aware of what behavior is good for them.
Implementation steps:
- Step 1: Keep food in your palms, give it to your dog. Attract his attention and hold his hand. Don’t let her get food in your hands.
- Step 2: In a natural reflex, the dog will take the food in your hand. Dogs are eaten right now.
- Try to ignore all other seductive actions like licking your hands or smelling your hands to ask for food. Just let them concentrate on one single thing, they can get food. They’ll be aware of what behavior is good for them.
- Step 3: Let the dog puppies hear the command: when the dog begins to know, take the food in your hand. The sentences should be brief, simple, from one to two words, “Hand hold”, “catch”,… and consistent so that the dog can understand quickly. The command should be issued as soon as the dog starts wanting to shake your hand and hold the dog’s hand.
- Step 4: Exercise like that for two or three days when the dog understands the command. You’ll start moving to the first command. Take the food in your hand and say, “Hand hold.” If the dog gets it, they’ll understand that it’s an order to get food. Once you’re done shaking your hands, you can feed your dog as a worthy reward.
- Continue to persevere with your puppy’s handshake training until it succeeds and finish the training within 15′. If after about 15’ and it doesn’t work, you should give the dog some time to rest and continue the next day.
- Step 5: Finally, when the dog can react quickly and reach out immediately upon hearing the command, you can gradually eliminate reward actions. Practice commands with your dog every day, accompanied by praise or play in lieu of food. Your dog will feel that it is a daily joy and entertainment that you spend to care for it and enjoy it more.
You should not force your dog to exercise too much, because it will cause overload, difficulty learning, confusion and boredom in the dog. Keep your puppies always in a happy state so they can learn quickly.
Through the basic puppy training methods provided here, the most important thing is that the owner needs to have a loving heart, be patient and consistent enough to help the training work be more successful. With these training methods, Dogsbreed.org hopes that it has helped give you a little more information. And wish you success!
