Teach Puppy To Sit And Stay
The new owner of every little puppy should devote the first few weeks it is with them to certain basic puppy training tasks.
Training the puppy when it is very young is very important. This article will deal with the two basic verbal commands SIT and STAY and Crate training.
It is also very important that all to be dog owners equip themselves with this knowledge on basic puppy training BEFORE they go out and buy or adopt their new puppy. They must know what to do in the first few weeks of the puppy’s life with them and be confident about doing it.
Puppies learn fast. Puppies are keen, attentive and very sensitive. Some breeds better than the other, but all puppies would pick up habits and form behaviour patterns as they grow older.
Apart from certain specific traits, peculiar to the breed of the puppy, all other habits and behaviour patterns they form are drawn from their surroundings, the way they are treated, how they are housed, the way they are fed and every little thing that happens around them.
It is because of this we must make sure they learn the right things from the start, if we don’t we may be in for rude shocks as the puppy grows older forming bad habits and developing problematic behaviour patterns in the process.
Crate training is a very beneficial training for a puppy. The benfits of crate training cannot be underestimated. It is instrumental in helping your dog form good habits.
Some of us humans may feel that confining a little puppy in a small cage like box is like imprisoning it, and if you feel that way you are wrong.
The very first benefit of crate training is that the puppy gets to feel secure and safe from outside harm.
It gets the feeling of ownership because it will automatically collect all its toys and stores it in its crate. It tells the puppy that he has its own place.
Crate training helps us potty train the puppy. By using a crate we can teach the puppy that it cannot do its business anywhere or everywhere inside the house. Crate training is beneficial for transporting the dog. It is used to the crate, hence will not object or feel agitated when moved while inside the crate.
Puppies love to jump up onto anything and everything. Puppies love jumping up onto people they see for the first time, or see after an absence of time. We must control this urge in the dog. The best way to do that is with the two verbal commands ‘SIT’ and ‘STAY’
Teaching the puppy to sit and remain where he is seated is a very import aspect of basic puppy training. We must get the puppy to understand those two commands and obey them, because if we don’t we will have a grown dog that jumps up at people, which can be rather problematic, especially if a person is scared of dogs.
Another important benefit of enforcing the SIT and STAY commands is they can be associated with training the dog not to bark unnecessarily, and further advanced training as it grows into a full grown dog.
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