Maintaining a consistent routine with feeding, potty breaks, naps, and playtime will make your puppy feel secure—and a secure puppy is ready and able to learn! So when do you teach your dog the different cues? When does house-training start? You can start leash training indoors at this age. Increase this duration slowly. Once your puppy knows how to come to you, you can walk around inside on the leash with no distractions. You can move the training outside once your puppy has all their vaccinations.
Get your puppy used to being touched. Gently rub their ears and paws while rewarding them. This will get them used to having those areas touched and will make veterinary visits and nail trims less stressful when they are older!
Your puppy should see their crate as a safe and calm place. Start by bringing them to their crate for minute intervals while they are nice and calm. Reward them for going in their crate. You can even feed them in their crate to create a positive environment. Puppies become mouthy at this age. Putting things in their mouths is how they explore their world, but it is important to teach them not to bite your hands or ankles. When they start biting at you, redirect them to a more appropriate object to bite, such as a toy.
Maintaining a schedule is important for potty training. Make sure to take your puppy out first thing in the morning, after eating, and after playtime and naps throughout the day. At this point they should start having enough bladder control to learn to hold it.
Reward your puppy with a treat every time they go to the bathroom outside. Puppies are entering the adolescence stage by this point, and it is the most difficult stage to start training at. That is why it is important to start training them as young as possible! At this stage you will continue training to solidify and strengthen their skills in more public and distracting settings such as dog parks. It typically takes four to six months for a dog to be completely housetrained and accidents are common for up to 12 months, so be patient with your young pup.
In the daytime an eight-week-old puppy will probably need to urinate at least every hour and to defecate shortly after any meal. Take them outside frequently during the day to get them on a schedule and aid with housetraining. Do not play with your puppy until they have gone — after which you can praise them.
The goal is to avoid accidents as much as possible even at such a young age. As your puppy gets older, they will need to go less frequently during the day. A puppy can typically last longer without a bathroom break during the nighttime than during the day.
At eight weeks a puppy will normally be able to wait four to five hours in between, and this will increase to five to six hours by around 12 weeks.
Give your puppy their last meal of the day several hours before bedtime. To avoid any unpleasant accidents during the night, do not let your puppy go to bed until they have peed and pooed. Finally, never scold your puppy if they have an accident — doing so will teach them that going to the toilet is a bad thing, and they may be reluctant to go, even in their outside area.
Socialising your puppy early can help them acclimatise to the human environment. Well-socialised puppies are less likely to develop behavioural problems, and proper socialisation can help prevent fears and phobias in the future.
You should introduce your puppy to as many different people and social situations as possible. Expose them slowly to traffic noise and crowds of people, and let your puppy see large objects move or fall. Before you introduce your puppy to other animals, perhaps with puppy training classes, make sure they have had their vaccinations and have completed their parasite control particularly deworming. Whatever the situation, always reward your puppy when they remained calm.
Every dog needs to learn how to walk nicely on a lead, whether for their own safety or for legal reasons. But many puppies will pull, making life difficult for you both. Do not allow the pup to join in running games with children.
The pup will begin to think of children as "prey" and might begin to nip. Never allow aggressive play and avoid tug-of-war with a puppy. This can lead to aggressive behaviour and biting. Instead, throw a ball for the pup to chase. Tug- of war before four months of age also stresses the elbow joint sand is not recommended.
Remind children to leave a sleeping puppy alone. Enforce the idea that pups need their rest. Do not surprise pups or adult dogs. A serious incident could occur. Encourage everyone in the home, including the children, to think of the puppy as a sensitive, living thing, with needs and desires and not a toy. Parents have an obligation and should not assume that the mix of children, dogs and pups does not need supervision. Children lack adult judgment, therefore all child-dog interactions should be monitored and yes, there will be times when you will have to protect the pup from children and vice-versa.
Dogs look for leadership from their owner. Indulging in bad behavior such as nipping, begging, stealing from the table, barking, etc. Do not make excuses for these behaviors and do not allow a pup to develop unpleasant behaviors. Do not tolerate jumping, growling, snapping or nipping. Do not allow a pup or dog to steal food or garbage. Always correct this behavior and do not let it become a bad habit. This means the owner has lost control.
Turn this around. Be consistent with your commands and always reward good behavior. Dogs that constantly demand attention are over-indulged. Each pup will naturally find its place in the family pack.
Owners must always assume the "leader" position to provide the security the pup needs. Dogs require leadership, structure and security. She would shake them by the neck, clout them with her paw, or pin them to the ground until they would submit. She made sure they knew she was the "boss".
In a new home a pup will look for the same structure and leadership. If none is provided they will begin to assert themselves. This is usually seen in the form of growls, nips and other kinds of dominant behavior. All members of the family must agree to behave consistently toward the pup. The pup does not understand inconsistency. For example, if your house rule is that the pup will not to be allowed on the furniture, it must be all the furniture all of the time.
Do not allow the pup on the couch one day and scold him the next. This is very confusing. Once they learn they are allowed on furniture, it is very hard to stop. To the dog it is all the same.
Your body odor represents you and that is the attraction. Therefore, you must have one rule for the furniture with no exceptions. Socialisation is a necessary and important part of good development. Exposing a pup to new and different places teaches them to be comfortable around strangers and changing situations. By eight weeks of age a new puppy should be accustomed to normal household sounds: the vacuum cleaner, dishwasher, TV, radio, toilet, etc.
Ideally, this was begun by the breeder. New and different environments such as a walk in the park, school ground, construction site, busy sidewalk, and shopping mall all provide interesting smells, sounds and opportunities to explore.
Much more has been written about socializing your pup. For more information go to www. As leader, use a happy, enthusiastic tone when praising your pup for good behavior. Generous amounts of praise for good behavior will pay off.
Never reward fearful behavior by "soothing" it with a soft voice or stroking. This only reinforces the bad behavior. Praise and discipline should not be confusing.
Use a stern and loud tone when correcting bad behavior. Your tone becomes the signal and provides the feedback pups understand. One syllable words work best.
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