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Sophia Yin
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August 14 - August 17, 2019
By the end of the week, she was automatically sitting to greet people, to go in and out of the house, to get her leash on and basically every time she wanted something from me or we were walking and I stopped. She met about 10 dogs and played nicely with them, but also came when called. And she loved all the people she met.
Make sure you have a variety of toys and a place to store them, so your puppy has access to some of them, but not all at once. Puppies love to switch between toys rather then choosing just one and sticking with it.
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Instead of eating out of a food bowl your puppy will at first be earning all his food from you directly as rewards for good behavior. We do this because for the fastest training we need to use all motivators to our advantage. That means you use every morsel of food as a reward, rather than wasting it by giving it to him for free.
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The key to potty training is taking your young puppy out frequently (on average every two hours for an eight-week-old puppy) and never giving her the opportunity to have a potty accident. That means at least eight trips a day!
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Stick to this plan for a month straight and she’ll reliably develop the habit of going outside and holding it inside.
Avoid letting puppies out of their crates when they are barking or whining, or you’ll reward the barking/whining behavior and it will get worse. Instead, wait until they are quiet to let them out.
If after five minutes she doesn’t potty, put her in her crate for 15 minutes and then try again. Repeat this 20-minute procedure until she potties outside. After she has pottied, you can play with her.
“The message the pup should learn is that if she takes her nose away from the desired object (such as your hand with the treat) and sits and looks at you for direction, she may get the item she wanted. She surely will not get the treat otherwise.”
Just make sure that coming when called is always fun, it ends with a reward that they like.
Your puppy should be tethered to you via a hands-free leash for at least 1-2 hours a day during a time when you are walking around the house a lot such as when you are tidying, cooking, or cleaning up. It’s important that you’re walking around the house a lot so that the puppy has a lot of practice learning to learn to walk by your side as you go from place to place and sitting when you stop or stand still.
it’s important that the experiences are positive,
Dogs often learn the sound-treat association best when the sound and food are presented at irregular intervals.
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