Dog Adoption 101

The moment you bring home your puppy should be the moment you start on its training, but should be done in a way that is both physically and mentally safe. There are those who find great stress and difficulty in training puppies, but this can be done at home with little headaches, if you know how to train your puppy through positive reinforcement, rather than only correcting it when it doesn’t follow instructions.

Puppies are different from humans – we should not set out immediately and tell them what’s wrong and mete out the resulting punishment. Puppies need a chance for themselves to learn the right thing to do while realizing the behaviors that wouldn’t match your idea of what to do.

If you wish that your puppy does the right thing at an early age, avoid saying, or even worse, shouting the word “No”. It would be much more advisable to have your puppy retry the exercise or retry certain steps. Do not hold back rewards for partially performed behaviors – reward your puppy whenever he or she does something right, no matter how small it is.

Let us cite an example. Let’s say you have a pair of expensive shoes and you catch your dog using them as a chewable treat. Instinctively, you run over, scream the word “Nooooo!”, but by doing so here’s what could possibly happen.

One, you may have scared the living heck out of your puppy, leading him/her to think that chewing on your personal belongings isn’t right when you’re around. But this will only lead to your puppy repeating the action when you are not at home or in its presence. Dogs behave on instinct, and mean no harm in these actions.

Nobody wants doggy business all over the living room, so crate training is a nice way to take care of two things – training your dog to go outside if he or she needs to eliminate waste, as well as ensuring a safe training process in general. The more your puppy goes outside to relieve himself or herself, and the more you reward this good deed, the more your puppy would understand where he or she should do its business.

Through the above examples, you are training your puppy not based on scare tactics, but rather on rewarding good behavior as it is repeated. This builds confidence in your puppy as he or she continues learning behaviors.

To summarize, using positive reinforcement and other positive forms of house training could help your dog develop good behavior and a good personality as well. Once your puppy reaches its first year, it would greatly benefit from this healthy form of communication, and should be a reliable companion for you once it finally matures.

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