Puppy Training Tips

Are you ready for Puppy Training 101? To get going, you should have three particular pieces of equipment to correctly teach your puppy: a training dog collar, a leather training leash, and a 15-foot span clothesline rope.

If you’re already thinking that your puppy’s present leather collar will work, and that his 4-foot chain leash will suffice, you may as well stop reading this article and save yourself and your puppy weeks of discomfort and hardship. There simply is no substitute for the right training equipment. A training collar is a slip-chain type made of metal. Don’t substitute one that’s made of nylon.

One of the many things your puppy is going to learn is to have confidence in you. But he will never develop that feeling of confidence if you substitute improper training equipment that will not be effective. Where there’s no confidence there can be no respect, and no respect means no desire to please. No desire to please means no willingness to learn. Add them all up and you have an uncontrollable puppy that will never achieve his rightful place in human world.

The Proper Leash

Your leash should be of the regular five to six foot leather type with a hand loop at one end. Training dog collars along with leather training leashes are available at pet suppliers and through internet catalogs. Training collars are sometimes called choke-chains, which is incorrect. While it’s true that a training collar can choke, if it’s worn on the puppy correctly and used properly, there’s no way it can be a choke-chain and cause harm to your pet.

The Right Collar

The collar should be large enough to slide over the puppy’s head comfortably, but not so large as to fall over the ears if the puppy should lower his head. A good rule of thumb to follow is to place the collar on the puppy and cinch it up tight for a moment and observe whether you have three inches of chain left over. If so, you have a fairly good fit. It is better to have a training collar that’s slightly too large than one slightly too small.

Final Puppy Training Necessities That You Cannot Find In A Store

The remaining equipment that you’ll need cannot be purchased at any store, but without them, you cannot successfully train your puppy.

You must love and care for your puppy! You must have patience and exercise patience while your puppy is learning. A shallow patience mixed with a quick temper will ensure total and utter fiasco.

To lose your cool and blow up means the end of training, so here’s a little tip that might help you keep your cool:

It takes 4 to 5 days for an average puppy to learn the average thing. Do not expect your puppy to perform like a professional the first few days of teaching him something new. It just doesn’t happen that way. If you lose control of yourself, you have lost control of the situation. When this happens, your puppy loses confidence in you.

I hope you have enjoyed the first lesson in Puppy Training 101!

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potty training puppies

Old newspapers are one of the staple items you need to keep in stock when potty training puppies. Newspaper is absorbent enough to take care of a little excrement, tough enough to prevent solid waste from seeping to the floor, and soft enough not to hurt the puppy or damage the floor as the puppy settles in to do its business. All of this from recycling yesterday's news.

Old newspaper then has quite a few roles to play when it comes to the potty training a puppy. It can serve these unique roles as:

Potty-training material
Because of newspaper's inherent absorbency and toughness, it does a pretty respectable job of holding and keeping excrement. You typically put the stuff under a dog's potty grill to catch the urine or feces. After it has done that, place the soiled stuff in garbage can at the end of the day. Another thing, you could place the newspapers on the floor in a pinch if you have to, but try to not use this method of potty training your for long. A puppy could grow up to be a dog that does its business on any newspapers left around on the ground, so you should be extra careful if your choice is to potty train your puppy on old newspaper.

Material for cleaning
The very same qualities that make it as good potty-training material also makes it excellent at cleaning up after your puppy's accidents. All you need to do is simply place the newspaper on wet spots to soak up the pee, while you can actually pick up solid fecal matter with the paper while wrapping it up in the process. One thing to remember is not to wipe away using newspaper, because this will result in you spreading the mess all over the floor. Use newpaper to absorb moisture and pick up dog droppings, and you won't run into any problems in the soapy cleanup.

Material that can be used for bedding
You could even use old newspaper as a sleeping surface for your puppy. Soft and insulating, it makes for a pretty comfortable bed for the pup. Cover the newspaper with an old sheet or cloth to protect the newspaper from claws, and you have an affordable but effective place for your beloved puppy to sleep at night. It's a good idea replace the newspapers once a month for a fresher and less smelly surface.

And one more thing about using newspaper as bedding material: make sure not to use the old newspaper for potty-training, since dogs do not like to excrete on their sleeping surfaces. If it's your choice to use old newspapers for potty training your puppy and for bedding material for it's crate, it's a good idea to separate one from the other and to not use them again for a different purpose.

From potty-training material to cleaning material to bedding material, old newspaper is indeed a very versatile item to use when potty training puppies. Newspaper is cheap and plentiful so you don't need to spend lots of money while training your puppy the right way to do its business. Remember all this, and you may just save a pretty penny

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