Welcome to puppy training
Puppy Training For Rottweiler Article
This is a selection made from among articles on Puppy Training For Rottweiler. For a permanent link to this article, or to bookmark it for future reading, click here.
Using Vocabulary That Your Puppy Can Understand
from:A dog or a puppy absolutely thrives on consistency. This is true all the way from finding and sticking to the right kibble to deciding what is and what isn't acceptable behavior. Consistency makes a pup very, very much happier and more secure than the bouncy kind of life many of us humans prefer.
Maybe you'll have to have periodic family councils to hammer out just what kinds of canine behavior are and are not acceptable to various members of the clan. By all means get it straight among the human members of the family; otherwise, if you are unpredictable and all pulling in different directions, the puppy will end up a confused mess, and it will be your fault. Once you have agreed on what goes, enforce the rules. "Oh, let her do it just this once," is a sure way to wreck the training program and confuse the pup.
Your puppy probably comes to you having either no vocabulary or a very limited one. Decide your words of command and make the whole family use only those words. It's not productive when people go chattering away, nagging and nagging their puppies with the vocabulary of human adults, then wondering why the poor, silly puppies don't seem to get the message. My husband Charles and I had a discussion some years back about the terms we used to encourage a puppy to eliminate outside. He was, I think understandably, somewhat put off at standing around telling a huge our Dane puppy to "Go potty." I find that term comfortable and easily understood by a pup. However, as I agreed with him then and still do, use any term that's easy to understand - which means short - and comfortable, as long as that's the terminology you always use for that particular behavior. With Tiger, whom we were house- breaking at the time, Charles got outstanding results by telling her first to "make a puddle," then telling her to "go poop." After all, those were the words she understood.
There is another all-purpose word that is used over the years with puppies: GENTLE. Drawn out and said slowly, the word sounds like the behavior we are encouraging. When a puppy is playing too roughly, for instance, a calming hand accompanied by the repetition of the "Gentle" command will serve to quiet the situation. The puppy isn't doing something essentially wrong when you want the "Gentle" command - it's just doing too much or too vigorously. So, the curious puppy that is nosing a resident cat will be warned to be GENTLE. I want the puppy and the cat to get along - insist on it, in fact - so this is not a time for NO.
Obviously the older dog that knows "Gentle" will understand what it's doing wrong if it gets too rough with a puppy. The puppy who greets someone too rambunctiously is throttled down, as it were, with the "Gentle!" warning. If you think of the "NO" as a red light, "Gentle" is the amber, or warning, light. A very useful command, I've found.
More Puppy Training For Rottweiler Related Articles
Travel & Holidays With Your Puppy
Kids And Puppies
How To Train Your Puppy To Heal
Puppy Safety
Training Tips Before You Bring Home Your New Puppy
Contribute to our site : submit your Puppy Training For Rottweiler Related Articles, SUBMIT Articles HERE
Latest Puppy Training For Rottweiler News
Physical therapy a new field of pet medicine - Aurora Beacon News
Physical therapy a new field of pet medicine Aurora Beacon News, IL - Larger dogs such as Jared, a 3-year-old Rottweiler adopted from Recycled Rotts rescue group by Judy McCormick of Geneva, usually don't use the water ... |
Starved dog ready for new home - Canada.com
 Canada.com | Starved dog ready for new home Canada.com, Canada - Roxy, a German shepherd-Rottweiler mix, recovered at the humane society's shelter for six days before animal behaviourist Brooke Dumouchelle took her home. ... |
Lakeville sees rise in abandoned pets; housing crisis, economy ... - Pioneer Press
Lakeville sees rise in abandoned pets; housing crisis, economy ... Pioneer Press, MN - A week later, Maxwell picked up a Rottweiler puppy. Lakeville isn't the only city dealing with more discarded pets. Eagan animal-control officer Karen Grimm ... |
Presidential Pooch Pick Offers Peek Into Policy - Bloomberg
 Bloomberg | Presidential Pooch Pick Offers Peek Into Policy Bloomberg - 4, Obama told his daughters, Sasha and Malia, they had ``earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the White House.'' Ten-year-old Malia suffers from ... |
Parvo shuts down shelter - Fort Dodge Messenger
Parvo shuts down shelter Fort Dodge Messenger, IA - Several studies suggest that certain breeds, including Doberman pinschers and Rottweilers, may be more susceptible to the disease than other breeds. ... |