3 Ingenious Ways to Train your New Puppy

When you own a new puppy it is one of the most memorable days of your life. You would want to shower him with kisses and love them unconditionally by cuddling them. But they are also prone to naughty behaviors like chewing up and biting with extra sharp puppy teeth. No matter how cute they seem it is very important to select a private trainer or teach your puppy basic training with the help of a book. Basic obedience is very important for a new pup. Let us look at some of ingenious ways to train your new puppy.

 

Train your puppy to learn ‘Drop it’ command

Puppies have the habit of picking anything and everything off the ground which includes kids, shoes, toys, old nasty food from the sidewalks and wrappers. If you teach your little pup ‘drop it’ command it will protect them from ingesting some potentially harmful things. You can commence the training by displaying their toys. Have them on a leash so that you can enough control over them and then hand them a toy. Once it is in their mouth use the command ‘drop it’.

Encourage your puppy to drop the toy whenever you say the command or you can use another toy in lieu of that toy as an exchange. Once the puppy releases the original toy, praise them verbally and give them a treat. You need to hold a practice session of this training 10 times in a row on a single day.

Train your puppy to never pick harmful things with ‘Leave it’ command

Although ‘drop it’ command is very important, it is equally important to teach your puppy never to pick up harmful things at the first time. The ‘Leave it’ command is a great way to ensure that your puppy never picks up harmful things. You can teach this command by putting your puppy on a leash to have enough control over them. Then put a few objects spread on the ground. Now take your puppy on a stroll and pass them through these things one at a time.

Whenever your puppy picks up any of the items tell them in a firm voice to ‘leave it’. You can even give a gentle tug on the leash to make their mouth away from the object. When they evade the object praise them by giving them a treat. Endure with the training with different types of objects till your puppy gets hold over things that they need to avoid. You can even put in food on the ground and practice with it. Whenever you take your puppy on a walk use the ‘leave it’ command when you see things like plants or other things that you want your little puppy to avoid.

Socialize your puppy

Every puppy has a unique personality of its own. Hence, each and every breed of dog will differ from each other. There are puppies that are quite brave and confident while others are shy and timid. Hence, it is very important that you expose them to a variety of things early on in life. Socializing skill is quite important and needs to be done early on in the puppies.

There are times when puppies are fearful of things that move fast, are loud, or look or smell different. This includes things like rakes, big trucks, skateboards, men with beards, people with large hats, smell of fish, land mowers, door slamming and even grills on the street. So you need to introduce these things to your puppy at a young age so that they can get accustomed to these things.

If a puppy is frightened of something do not force them towards that thing or evade the thing altogether. Instead, you can rub the object and then enable your puppy to sniff the thing off your hand. This will reduce their fear towards that thing. If your puppy still shows fear towards that thing give them enough space to feel relaxed but do not evade the situation. Try to expose your puppy with that thing as much as possible so that they learn that there is nothing to fear. Build their confidence by encouraging them. The more places you make them visit, the more confident your puppy will become in future.