After years working as Applied Behaviorists, it was clear to Karen and I that play has the power to strengthen one’s relationship with a dog, or alternatively, to destroy it. You can use play to teach self control and good manners, or to inadvertently teach a lack of frustration tolerance...
Hide-and-seek is fun to play with a canine partner. Tell your puppy to sit and stay while you hide — or get someone to hold onto your puppy if they don't yet know "stay." Once you've hidden, call your puppy and wait for them to come and find you. Reward them for finding you...
Once your puppy is acclimated to their harness and leash, practice walking around indoors. Space out treats or toys along a route you’d like your puppy to walk. This will help your puppy focus on what’s ahead of them. With the leash in hand, guide them along the route you’ve chose...
How to train a puppy to potty outside:To help your puppy remember the place, you can say a phrase or word (e.g., “go pee”) that they can associate with every time they go. This Pavlovian trick is a classic. How to potty train a puppy indoors:If you wish to potty train your ...
puppy with food and how much they eat. Take the puppy outside to the desired “bathroom spot.” This gets the puppy conditioned to relieve itself when it gets some free time outside before going back to its confined area. Eventually, the puppy will identify the indoors as a place not ...
The next step should be to try playing fetch indoors. Once the dog has started to play fetch indoors, you can then train him to fetch and return outdoors. That is how most of the dogs are trained. Fetch is an incredibly wonderful game to play with your puppy and also a great way to...
But while your puppy is still learning, it’s very important to use a clicker. This will convey the exact moment in time that you are rewarding: completing a potty outside. Communication For Potty Training Goes Two Ways Once your puppy realizes that pottying indoors is NOT rewardable … and...
We have been leaving her in a play pen in the kitchen, with a puppy pad, water, toys, and a bed. She is alone from 7:30am – 12pm, then one of us comes home at lunch to let her out, feed her, and play with her. Then she is alone again from about 12:30pm – 5:30pm....
The Bordoodle is a Poodle mix consisting of Poodle and Border Collie traits. A Bordoodle puppy is likely to be an active yet brainy canine. Also called Borderpoo, this mix is clearly favored for his looks. Border Collie Poodle mix temperamentwill be like either the Poodle or the Collie. ...
Does your puppy suffer from separation anxiety? Easing your puppy's separation anxiety takes time. Read our detailed guide for methods to help with this.