Learning About Dog House Training

Learning About Dog House Training

A dog house, to a dog, is his own personal private space and helps satisfy that inherited instinct for den-dwelling.The Advantage of a Dog House Dog house training has some advantages in a practical sense. The dog house is always a place to put the dog when he is misbehaving. It is also a great place to put the dog when you have company or when you are out working. Inside his dog house, your dog can avoid fear and confusion from the outside world.

Placement of a Dog House
When you are dog house training it is very important to keep the dog house in one place. Dogs are social animals so picking a spot for his home should be around where the family spends a lot of time.Make sure that you also place the dog house where the wind is to the back of the opening and place it where there is available shade.

The best way to think about the placement of the dog house is to think of it as your place and make it as comfortable as possible.As a Puppy Dog house training should start as a puppy and his first experience in his “safe place” should be an enjoyable experience; let him know that it is safe for him to enter.

Different puppies learn at different rates. Some pick up what is required almost instantly, others may take much longer. Some take as long as six months or more. A puppy that came from a dirty or cramped kennel is likely to take longer than one that had a better start.

To get him inside, throw his favorite toy inside and encourage him to retrieve it as this will let him know that it’s safe.After he enters, let him come right back out and don’t try to trap him in there by standing in front of the opening.

Once he comes out, praise him and continue to play with him but don’t throw his toy back inside for a little while. Remember, this is a place for him to relax and you don’t want him to associate it with play time.

The biggest influence on how quickly a puppy becomes dog house trained is how much time and effort you put in. More input from you will speed up the time taken to become completely comfortable and feeling secure; while less input will prolong the process.

Older Dogs
You can teach an older dog to adapt to a dog house, but unlike a puppy he may be already set in his ways and might not take to a new environment. No matter the age of your dog, once you have completed your dog house training you need to teach your children that the dog house is his security blanket and when he goes into his home he should not be bothered and that he wants to get away from the outside world.

When training your dog, you need to be consistent. If you never want your dog to scratch the door, do not ever let him do it no matter what the situation is. Dog behavior training is very sensitive to regularities.

Be habitual with your actions. If you do not want your dog to go on the sofa, then he never be allowed on that sofa—or your bed. In dog house training you learn that dogs do not understand the concept of occasionally or “if.” They only understand consistent permission or no permission-- ever.

A dog, no matter how friendly, has the instinct to attack when it feels trapped and if your children are bothering the dog while in a dog house the dog will feel trapped and attack. That’s why dog house training is just as important to your dog as it is to the rest of the family.
Learning About Dog House Training

Healthy Relationship with Your Puppy

Establishing A Healthy Relationship With Your New Puppy

When you bring your new puppy home, you'll want to make him feel good while he's lying down or on his back. Give him a little stroke or an encouraging word. But don't overdo it. If you make the pup stay in that posture and he stays there, it teaches him a lesson both in submission and in dominance. That may seem okay. But the problem is that the dog also learns confrontation, not just with other dogs but also with people.

Dogs can be taught to be compliant without using force and confrontation. Do not shake him by the scruff of the neck and pin him to the ground, even though that's what wolves occasionally do to establish dominance. No matter how many times you've been told that you are the alpha animal, the fact is that people-dog relationships are not like wolf-wolf relationships. Dogs' teeth can inflict more damage than people's hands, so the wise thing to do here is not to start the confrontation.

Instead, start out with a companion-animal relationship where there's mutual respect for each other's roles (yours is to communicate direction, his' is to respond appropriately). Your dog will try to please you and be compliant, and you will praise him for doing so.

This is the kind of relationship you want to start as soon as you bring the puppy home, even before you take him to puppy kindergarten or hire a trainer to get him under control. Don't physically force your new pet to do things that he's not ready to do. Let him get used to one room at a time. Make sure that you keep track of when he is getting overly excited. This is your cue to say to him, "Settle!" or "Outside!" The word or phrase you use is up to you.

Try to go out the same door each time for the same activity. You will need to take him outside and stand there while he sniffs around and pees or poops, and you say, "Good Boy" then go indoors and play with him in a different location, so that he gets the idea that when we go to this one spot it's time to pee or poop, and when we go out a different door to another spot, that's where we play.

As you start to teach your dog good house-training techniques, you will also want to put him on a regular pattern of eating, usually three times a day at first. Occasionally, a pup will not seem too interested in eating. Besides finding out what he was eating when you acquired him, and offering him tidbits of chicken and beef from your fingers to whet his appetite, puppies like some company when they go to the food bowl. So if there is a litter-mate or a neighborhood puppy about the same age as yours who would like a dinner date, let them eat side by side a few times in the location you've chosen for daily feeding.

The idea is to make him comfortable and get him into a routine of regular eating, sleeping, elimination, and walking. Make sure that you don't do unpleasant things with your hands. Don't let your puppy start to chew or nibble on your fingers or hands. Even if the nibbling doesn't hurt now, it will hurt when he gets older and can lead to a bad habit that's difficult to break. Very soon, you'll be getting to know your new pet very well.

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