Dog Obedience Training For Your Pet Dog

In the event that you’ve just added a new puppy to the household, you’ll need to make puppy potty training a priority. Your house will promptly end up quite a mess in the event you don’t train your pet correctly. When you come to a decision to move forward with puppy potty training, you may choose to take a couple of weeks off so as to have continuous time with your new pet. If you don’t, it could take you significantly longer to teach your dog.

A lot like most people, dogs master new abilities at different rates. It may possibly take some time for the puppy to acquire a good understanding of exactly where to go potty and exactly where to avoid it. It will require your dog some time to get the picture that it’s inappropriate to use any area of your house as a bathroom.

When puppies are young, they will have to go to the bathroom often, possibly even every single hour. You must anticipate numerous accidents once you first bring your puppy home. Never lose your temper since your new dog doesn’t know what he is doing wrong. Always be consistent and employ one or two word commands each time. This tends to help your puppy potty training go quicker and a lot more efficiently.

When you wish to train your dog fast, you’ll really need to pay close attention to him. There will be indications that come up whenever your dog needs to go to the bathroom. He might become restless, sniff the floor, or nose around a spot where he went to the bathroom before. If the puppy has recently had his food, or taken a nap, odds are he will have to relieve himself shortly. When you take your puppy outdoors to go to the bathroom, take him to the same spot each and every time. Don’t start any play. This might confuse him as to what the intent of the outdoors visit may really be. As soon as your dog does potty outdoors, praise him with a lot of enthusiasm. You might wish to keep small treats available to boost the positive behavior as well.

Whenever you are indoors, you’ll need to maintain a close eye on your new puppy when he is potty training. Don’t allow him to have the chance to fail by making use of some area of your house as the bathroom. You might really need to keep him inside a smaller location for the time being and follow him around whenever you allow him to wander further.

If you do have to leave your dog, you will wish to put him inside a kennel. One more great idea is a fenced yard outdoors when the weather is nice. Be sure the young puppy is not in a kennel any more than a couple of hours at a time when they are being trained.

Do you need help with puppy behavior problems? Be sure to visit my site to learn how to stop puppy jumping and about potty training your puppy.

When a dog trainer (like me) starts looking for a puppy, I tend to start looking for English Cocker puppies.

This is a lovely ECS at 4 weeks old. Oh my.

Sometimes we dog trainers use this saying amongst ourselves to describe a predicament a certain client is in. We’ll say “It’s to much dog for him/her” Which really means that the dog is the equivalent of giving your 87 year old grandmother a Ferrari to drive to the market on Thursdays.

Often times this “to much dog situation” involves much care and attention from the trainer and much destroyed furniture, toys, house siding…on the part of the owner.

One of my most recent favorite Near “to much dog” stories involves this dog Ranger. Ranger came from a very high end breeding program that breeds for serious working dogs. He is a VERY high quality dog with excellent intelligence, maybe to much. Ranger’s owner is a previous client of mine and a very fine lady. She’s had Shepherds before so she knew what to expect. Well, she almost knew what to expect. This pup needed TONS of exercise both mental and physical and he was a bear to keep up with. So, while I can say he’s a handful and got near “to much dog”, his owner stepped up and managed to keep him at the ” all the dog I can handle” level.

So, as a tribute to this owner and Ranger, I took some photos of him today to show what a great dog he’s become. Kudos to Patti and Ranger for getting over the hump and moving on out into the world of fantastic companionship.

Sometimes we dog trainers use this saying amongst ourselves to describe a predicament a certain client is in. We’ll say “It’s too much dog for him/her” Which really means that the dog is the equivalent of giving your 87 year old grandmother a Ferrari to drive to the market on Thursdays.

Often times this “too much dog situation” involves much care and attention from the trainer and much destroyed furniture, toys, house siding…on the part of the owner.

One of my most recent favorite Near “too much dog” stories involves this dog Ranger. Ranger came from a very high end breeding program that breeds for serious working dogs. He is a VERY high quality dog with excellent intelligence, maybe to much. Ranger’s owner is a previous client of mine and a very fine lady. She’s had Shepherds before so she knew what to expect. Well, she almost knew what to expect. This pup needed TONS of exercise both mental and physical and he was a bear to keep up with. So, while I can say he’s a handful and got near “to much dog”, his owner stepped up and managed to keep him at the ” all the dog I can handle” level.

So, as a tribute to this owner and Ranger, I took some photos of him today to show what a great dog he’s become. Kudos to Patti and Ranger for getting over the hump and moving on out into the world of fantastic companionship.

Well, I never would consider myself a person to use the blog to plug products or places but this one is a MUST and it is far far overdue. The folks at Just For Pets on Far West have been a great helper to my clients for the last couple of years. Any time a client has food questions or any other question about what should ‘go into a dog’ I send them to talk to Jim. Those folks have forgotten more about dog food than I will ever know.

So, if you need treats, food, toys, beds…… go see them. And tell them Steve sent you.

Just For Pets
3742 Far West Blvd
Suite 104
Austin, TX
(512) 342-2220

Sometimes I get to work with dogs for a longer period of time and I get to know them well. It’s a curse for dog trainers that some of our favorite dogs are not our own, but those of our clients. Zachary is just such a dog.

Zachary and I have been working together for about three months now. He’s a wonderful dog and though he still has his ‘puppy’ moments he is attentive, sweet, and a very gentle soul of a dog. In short I wish that I could clone him and have a copy for myself.

Sometimes we professional trainers become a bit jaded from working with with so many dogs throughout the year, but just often enough we get a Zachary who comes along and reminds us of exactly what the true definition of ‘a good dog’ actually is.

As the end of Zachary’s training time with me nears, I’m starting to feel a sense of loss. I’m going to miss working with you Zachary, you’re a Very Good Dog.

– Post From My iPhone. Dog training on the go.

Location:Elinor Ln,West Harwich,United States

Just read this in the NY Times. It answers questions I get every day about running with your dog. Have fun and enjoy.
http://nyti.ms/aF6hbo

– Post From My iPhone. Dog training on the go.

Location:Elinor Ln,West Harwich,United States

I had an interesting client last week. These people had a very fine lab that I had worked with before for various issues and have always been quite pleased with it.

The issue was that in the past this pup had ‘eaten’ a couple of the family birds, and had been corrected (as it should have been) to the point that it was now scared of any bird in the house. She was fine with birds outside but in the house, not so much. In any case a new Solomon Island Eclectus arrived in the home two weeks ago and I was called to work on the fear issues.

When working on something like this the basic starting point is plain old behavior modification and desensitization works. Getting the dog to ‘do it’s commands’ when it gets nervous is a fabulous way to start.

So, after about 5 days of training here is the note from the owners:

“We all seem to be getting along! ”

Mission accomplished for the dog trainer.

My wife always says that my job as a dog trainer places me somewhere between the psychologist and the pool boy. The difference is not as great as one would think.

Today, however, I am the pool boy. See the photo below. My entry point.

Location:Marshall Ln,Austin,United States