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Puppy training is very important, whether you are training your first puppy or your 20th. Properly training and socializing a puppy is vital to making it a valued member of your family and your community. In certain ways, it is easier to train a puppy than to train an adult or adolescent dog.

Puppy training is very important, whether you are training your first puppy or your 20th. Properly training and socializing a puppy is vital to making it a valued member of your family and your community.

In certain ways, it is easier to train a puppy than to train an adult or adolescent dog. This is because the puppy basically starts from “zero base”, as they are are untroubled by past training techniques and other issues. On the other hand, in some ways, the puppy is a bigger challenge than an older dog.

One challenge to training a new puppy is that puppies are more easily distracted than adolescent and adult dogs. Everything is new to a puppy, and every new experience provides a new chance for distraction. For this reason, it is best to keep training sessions short when working with a puppy, and to end each training sessions on a positive note.

It is also vital to let the puppy have plenty of play time, and to allow it to interact with other puppies and dogs. Socialization training is one important area to making you new puppy a good canine citizen, as dog aggression is increasingly becoming a problem in many areas.

A well-trained dog will know how to play properly with other dogs, as overly aggressive and “enthusiastic” play is often punished by other dogs in the play group.

This kind of “learning through play” is something that happens among siblings in litters of puppies. As the puppies play with one another, they eventually learn what is right and what is not. Wrong behavior – such as hard biting or scratching – is punished by the other members of the play group or the mother dog, or both.

It is too bad that many puppies are removed from their mothers and siblings (they are either sold or adopted) before this socialization has the chance to fully happen.

Thus,, pet, a very vital part of any puppy training session will be the puppy play sessions. Most good puppy preschool training programs specifically provide time for this type of play sessions among the puppies and older dogs, to allow for this kind of dog interaction.

Letting your puppy have enough of new experiences and introducing them to new locations is an important part of puppy training. Training your dog to obey and respond to you, even in the face of distractions, is vital when training dogs and puppies.

One good place to look into helping your puppy socialize with new people and new dogs is your local pet store. Many big pet store chains, as well as many independent ones, do allow you to bring your puppy over to their premises. These stores can be a great place for puppies to get accustomed to new sights, sounds and smells. Do of course check with the store to be sure; before bringing your pet on the “excursion”.

It is really essential for puppy owners to implement a structure in their pet’s environment so that the puppy is rewarded for good behaviors and not for the wrong ones.

For example, jumping on people. Many of us unknowingly reward this wrong behavior because it can be cute. While it is quite correct that jumping can be cute for a 10-pound puppy, it will not be so when this same puppy has grown into a 100-pound dog.

Try rewarding the puppy for sitting instead of jumping. Simply ignore it when it jumps on people. This type of positive reinforcement will result in a well behaved adult dog that is a valued member of both the family and the community at large.

This type of reinforcement training can also be used in potty training the new puppy.

For example, teaching a puppy to use a unique surface such as gravel or asphalt is a good technique. Behavioral training theory says that puppy will associate this surface with going potty, and therefore be reluctant to use other surfaces (like your kitchen carpet for instance) as a potty.

Author: Andrew Chan | Source: articledashboard.com