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Puppy Training
Prevent predictable problems, avoid harmful punishment tactics, and start your puppy out right with early socialization and training key life skills.
Start puppy training right away
By starting at the beginning, at 8 weeks or as soon as you get your puppy, you can:
- Prevent predictable behavior problems with comprehensive puppy training for socialization and obedience skills. It’s far easier to prevent behavior problems in puppies than to fix them once they’ve started!
- Learn key techniques and best practices for socializing and raising a friendly, well-behaved puppy who’s adaptable rather than anxious, and a joy to be around, to show off to friends, and to take out in public.
- Adopt a positive, proactive approach to meeting your puppy’s species-specific needs, including appropriate puppy-level exercise, enrichment and brain games, play, bonding and settling.
- Avoid common punishment tactics that are all-too-instinctive for us humans but stress or scare puppies and can set up future problems with avoidance, anxiety, fear and even aggression.
- Practice our fun, super bonding Play Training games that 1) build key obedience skills like Come and Drop It, 2) teach impulse control and smoother transitions, and 3) provide body & brain exercise that creates a calm, contented puppy who settles easier when you need peace and quiet.
Skills we can cover, based on your priorities:
- Setting up your household and routine to make puppy raising easier on everyone and to ensure better sleep
- House training (to avoid accidents)
- Chew training (to avoid destructiveness and property damage)
- Crate and confinement training
- Easy enrichment tools to occupy busy puppy brains
- Alternatives to biting and nipping (and sparing you the pain of needle-sharp puppy teeth)
- Techniques for responding to stealing and running away (to avoid accidentally rewarding these behaviors)
- Polite greetings (rather than jumping, biting, barking or over-exuberant mauling)
- Recalls (coming reliably when called, indoors & out)
- Door & gate manners (to prevent door dashing & running away)
- Training techniques that channel — rather than quash — your pup’s boisterous energy
- Attention & listening skills to create a puppy who wants to listen and get it right
- Car training
- Sit & stay
- Settle (down-stay) and relaxation training
- Impulse control and household manners (polite requesting)
- Drop it and leave it (two distinct skills)
- Gentle mouth training (it’s a lot easier to teach puppies than adults!)
- Leash manners and heeling
- Quiet training
- Up & off (furniture, the car, people)
- Training to prepare puppy for grooming and veterinary care
- Fun tricks to show off to friends
