One of the most common toilet training mistakes humans can make when toilet training a puppy is verbally punishing a puppy ‘caught in the act’ of toileting indoors. Most people think that when they catch a puppy toileting that they should yell out something like ‘No! Bad puppy!’ When in reality, giving your puppy some dog training would be the answer.
Let’s look at this from the puppy’s point of view. He feels like going to the toilet so he goes, unaware that he shouldn’t toilet indoors. You come along yelling and scare him. When he toilets indoors and you’re not around he doesn’t get yelled at and now that you ARE around he’s being yelled at. He’s learning that your presence when he’s toileting is a bad thing. You think you’re teaching him not to toilet in the house. The puppy thinks it’s not safe to toilet in front of YOU.
The next time you take him outdoors to toilet and say something like ‘Go do wee!’ the puppy remembers you yelling at him and refuses to toilet in front of you. He holds onto it and after a while you take him back indoors thinking he doesn’t need to go. At the first opportunity your puppy will sneak away from you and toilet undetected. I call this ‘stealth peeing’! He’s simply trying to avoid punishment.
If this has happened to your puppy the first step is to cease punishing your puppy for accidents immediately. Ensure that you have a proper toilet training plan that sets the puppy up for success. According to an article on LA weekly, this should include confinement and 100% supervision in the absence of confinement. You will then need to take your puppy outside and let him roam far enough away from you so that he feels safe from punishment. When your puppy toilets praise verbally and reward immediately with a high value treat or fun game.

Setting Trevor up for success is crucial to raising a well mannered puppy after we decided to get him from the german shepherd puppies for sale website. We will not put Trevor  into positions where he can make bad choices. Here are some of the ways we will set him up for success:

Supervision

Trevor will not have unrestricted access to our home, not even for one minute! If no one is available to supervise him he will be crated with his padded leather collar on, put into a pen or simply attached to our waist with his lead and keep him with us. This way we can go about our daily business confident in the knowledge that no harm will come to him or our belongings. As he matures we gradually allow extra privileges in our house. If you own a puppy this website will give you some tips about using cbd supplements for stress control.

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Visitors

When visitors arrive Trevor will be popped into his playpen. When he is calm he will be let out of his pen and visitors will be instructed to ask him to sit before greeting him and usually giving him a treat. If we have visitors that are non-compliant Trevor will be given a Kong in his play pen where he will remain until the visitors leave.

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Toilet Training

Trevor will be taken outside every hour AND after meals, drinking, playing or sleeping. If he is having free time in the house he will have either Paul or myself dedicated to watching him 100% of the time. At night time he will sleep in his crate in our bedroom and we will set the alarm to take him out to the toilet a couple of times a night. If we go to bed at 10:30pm and wake up at 7:00am we will set the alarm for 1:30am and 4:30am. If you want to train your dog to modify this and be able to sleep more, there is a website called The Daily Tail with lots of articles about dogs and other pets.

Chewing

We will puppy proof our home and yard to the best of our ability, we will buy mango natural cbd tincture for him, so he dose not stress to much. Nothing will be left on the floor or anywhere he can reach. Toilet doors will be closed and wardrobe doors will be closed. Although we will supervise him when he’s having free time we don’t want to be constantly calling him or moving him away from things as that will only serve to make these rooms more interesting to him.

Coming when called

From very early days Trevor will get LOADS of time off lead in safe places. We don’t want being off lead to be a novel experience for him. If being off lead is novel he’ll be much less likely to come when he’s called.

Pulling On Lead

Whenever Trevor is attached to a lead we will NEVER take a step forward if there is any tension in the lead. If we need to get somewhere quickly we will pick him up and carry him rather than allow him to pull on lead.

Resource Guarding

We will constantly trade Trevor for things his has in his mouth. For example, if he has a leaf in his mouth we will pick up another leaf and make a big deal of our leaf. When he indicates he wants our leaf we will trade him for his now boring leaf. We will trade his toys for treats etc.

Door Dashing

Before Trevor has impulse control and has been trained to sit at open doors, garage doors, gates and car doors he will be leashed and/or tethered before any door is opened in his presence.

Stairs

Access to our stairs will be blocked and or baby gated. Puppies can tumble down the stairs in the blink of an eye hurting themselves severely at a minimum. Many puppies can even fit between the railings on staircases.

Mealtimes

When we are eating Trevor will be placed into his playpen so that we can eat in peace and not worry about where he might be or have him begging at the table, and you can replace the table cloth easily since now a days you can buy from linen tablecloths for sale so you always have a replacement. When we feel up to it we will train him to sit quietly on a mat while we eat.

Sleep

Puppies get over-tired just like children do and as a result become obnoxious, ill-tempered and upset. Trevor will be put down for a sleep in his crate/playpen area regularly. At 8-10 weeks he will be put down for a sleep after 45mins or so of awake time.

Activities

Trevor will be provided with mental stimulation in various different forms on a regular basis. He will have his toys rotated daily to keep interest in them. He will also be given organic pet food in a daily basis. We’ll play fun games with him like hide the treat, hide-n-seek etc. We will also do regular short training exercises. Structured activities stop him from looking for something to do and making a bad choice!

Meeting Other Dogs On Lead

Trevor will only be permitted to meet other dogs on lead if he is calm and responsive to us. He will then be asked to sit after which he will be expected to walk on a nice loose lead to reach the other dog before saying hello this will make him more friendly for when we go on vacations and have to take him to a pet boarding facility. We will keep the leash slack during the greeting.

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Food Guarding

Trevor will not be fed away from things. He will be fed in a busy area of our house. This is so that he gets used to eating with activity going on around him rather than being alone with his food. Puppies that get used to eating alone in a laundry or outdoors often turn into food guarders, also make sure to follow Champion Petfoods 5 Rules when you are choosing the food for you puppy.

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Toilet Training

It’s normal for dogs to toilet indiscriminately and puppies have no concept of holding it according to the explanation of dog trainer newcastle. We can’t just bring him home and hope for the best and then reprimand him when he toilets indoors. Many people refer to a puppy toileting indoors as a ‘mistake’ – while it IS a mistake it’s not Trevor’s mistake, it’s OUR mistake for not having a plan or for failing to stick to the plan! Toilet training takes more than a just few days and we can’t relax until we’ve had a good three months without any indoor toileting.

Separation Training

Trevor has never spent a single moment alone, he has been with his littermates and mother  one hundred percent of the time. For us to dote on him all day long then expect him to sleep alone in a laundry that night is expecting too much! He will be frightened when alone and will naturally call out in distress unless we take them to the dog boarding in naples fl which is close by. Trevor will sleep confined in a crate in our bedroom where he can see us and hear us breathe. He will then be taught to accept being alone gradually. This will include being happy to be in the same house as us but not have access to us (or Stevie).

Handling

As part of caring for Trevor and his well-being he will:

• be bathed
• be blow-dried
• be brushed
• have his ears cleaned
• have his nails clipped
• have his coat clipped
• be restrained while we check for ticks, fleas etc
• have tablets administered
• have ear drops administered
• have eye drops administered
• have his temperature taken
• have his teeth checked/cleaned etc

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Socialisation

We have a very short period to shape how Trevor will view the world. We know that his survival instincts will begin to kick in at somewhere around 12 weeks of age and will be in full force by 16 weeks of age. This means that by 16 weeks of age he will be wary of (and quite possibly frightened of)  anything new. We will have around 8 weeks to introduce Trevor to, and make him comfortable with new people, animals, things, experiences and places. For this 8 week period all our personal desires will take a backseat unless they fit into Trevor’s socialisation program. It’s only 8 weeks and it will shape the rest of Trevor’s life.

Bite Inhibition

Biting and mouthing are perfectly normal behaviours for puppies. They use their teeth in play and as a means of communication. Trevor needs to learn that when interacting with humans to treat our skin as though it were tissue paper.  This is a systematic process. Often people inadvertently teach their puppy to bite by teasing them with hand and feet. When we (or anyone else!) play with Trevor there will always be toy between him and the human, while the use of a playground from www.soft-play-equipment.co.uk/ just to play. Before getting a dog, make sure to learn about the danger of xylitol for dogs.

No Jumping

There’s nothing that saddens us more than little dogs jumping frantically on humans.  It never ceases to amaze us how many people find this behaviour ‘cute’ and see it as an expression of happiness. I always imagine Paul coming home after a consultation to me jumping frantically all over him. I’m sure that if I did he would send me off  to get some professional help and I’d spend the next two years in therapy working on my anxiety issues. What makes it so different for dogs? Jumping up is often an expression of anxiety in dogs, just as it would be in humans and we would be devastated if our dogs were this anxious to greet us, so is better to take them out to the playground with the best markings from https://www.outdoor-surface-painting.co.uk/playground/markings.

Sharing Food Toys etc

It’s normal for dogs to want to keep their resources to themselves. Trevor will be no exception to this.  If Trevor were living in the ‘wild’ guarding precious resources  would help to ensure his survival. Resources are things dogs like such as food, toys, sleeping &resting places and even humans. It’s our job to teach him that sharing resources is not only ok, it’s beneficial. We will teach him to trust us enough so that he happily surrenders resources to us, rather than tolerates us ‘taking’ them off him. Puppies will tolerate you taking things off them but as they grow and become more confident they may not accept it so well. Have you ever wondered, can dogs eat pickles? Banixx answers that question for pet owners like you.

Crate/Confinement Training

When Trevor is unsupervised, whether indoors or outdoors, it is important that we have somewhere safe to put him. Not only can unattended puppies learn bad habits quickly, the can cause damage to household items easily. Injures and even death can befall unsupervised puppies quickly. Puppies die from chewing on electrical cords, suffocate in plastic bags, drown in pools or ponds, get caught up in curtain cords and strangle to death. Just the other day one of our clients found a huge python eyeing up her Golden Retriever puppy in the backyard! Keeping Trevor safe from harm is one of our responsibilities as puppy parents. We can’t supervise Trevor 100% of the time so we need to train him to be happy to be confined somewhere safe and puppy proofed.

Calm/Settle

This seems to be very low on most puppy parents’ list of priorities but it rates very high on ours. We love a calm dog. A calm dog is a dog that can think and respond. A calm dog isn’t running around wildly reacting to the world and everything in it. A calm dog is a joy to be around. Trevor will be a calm dog.  It’s worth noting that calm is not a position (sit, drop etc), calm is a disposition. Calm dogs get everything in our house, they get treats, they get played with, they get to go for walks, they get to come inside, they get to go outside, they get to come up and snuggle on the bed or couch, they get to say hello to visitors, they get greeted by us , they get dinner – all the good things happen for calm dogs. Dogs that aren’t calm get nothing. It’s quite simple to teach if you’re prepared to wait initially. If you love dogs too, read this guide on how to correctly start feeding a dog once you get one.

Chew Toy Training

Trevor is a dog and we know that dogs like to chew things. Armed with that knowledge and having a house full of ‘things’ we’d be insane to leave him alone anywhere in our house with our things. Astonishingly easy we know, yet so many people have so many things destroyed by puppies and young dogs. Trevor needs to be taught to make good chewing decisions. Until he demonstrates good chewing choices consistently we’d be mad to allow him unsupervised access to anywhere indoors or outdoors that is not puppy-proofed.

Trevor - Photo taken by Zoo Studio - Animal Art Photography

When deciding what breed to buy as our second dog we were tempted by many breeds, including some very large breeds, but just couldn’t go past the wonderful Cavalier King Charles Spaniel in the end. The cost and effort that goes into maintaining a Cavalier is minimal when compared to larger breeds and many of the smaller breeds too!

We already have one Cavalier, Stevie, who has been an absolute delight for the past 7 years. Obviously Stevie is more likely to get along with another Cavalier and he’s too old now to tolerate a large dog pawing at him and annoying him.

Cavaliers are portable which makes them easy to fit into our life which can be hectic since we run  our own very busy business and even for paystubs we use fake paystubs to manage everything. We often don’t have time for long walks or big exercise sessions. Also, we are dog trainers that work seven days a week and although we love our job we don’t necessarily want to do it when we get home!

Being a small dog there are many FINANCIAL advantages:

• Feeding them is cheaper
• Buying crates, playpens, Big Dog Beds, kongs, collars  etc is cheaper
• Vet bills are cheaper
• Dog grooming and dog washing, Grooming is cheaper,

Being a small dog there are many PRACTICAL advantages:

• They can be a lap dog and do ‘big dog’ things such as dog sports, fetch, tug etc
• Small dogs generally don’t require huge yards
• It’s easier to rent or own (where body corporates are involved) with a small dog
• It’s easier to rent a holiday house with small dogs
• It’s easier to find a babysitter among friends/family for two small dogs as opposed to big dogs
• It will be easier to take two small dogs when visiting people’s homes rather than two big dogs
• If they cause damage to the garden it will be small scale damage
• If they chew our things they won’t do much damage
• It’s easy to fit two small dogs in a car
• They don’t take up as much room on the couch or bed!

What we like about Cavaliers

• They’re not known for any behavioural issues such as barking, aggression, separation anxiety etc
• They’re very food motivated and therefore easily trained
• They excel at dog sports like agility, flyball and doggy dancing
• They get along well with other dogs big or small
• They get along well with people of all ages, including children
• They’re very adaptable
• Of the smaller breeds they’re the one of the easiest to own and train’
• Their coats are suited to clipping therefore they drop minimal hair
• Their hair is very fine and dirt seems to just drop off them
• If clipped grooming is easy and don’t take long

Our Dogs Steve and Garry Photo by Zoo Studio - Animal Art Photography

We WANT two dogs. We’re not getting another dog to keep Stevie (our current dog) happy or to keep him company. We’re not getting another dog because one of us wants one, or so that we can have a dog each. We have discussed the pros and cons as a couple and decided as a couple that we would like to have two dogs, If you are dog lover as I am , let me share with you this site with tips about how to remove stress using cbd products for pets since the new member might scare the already owned dog.

We have the means to care for two dogs. Having two dogs costs twice as much money. Every cost you incur you incur twice, food, vet bills, worming & flea treatments, pet insurance and all the other costs associated with having a dog. We have budgeted with help from the charleston veterinary clinic experts for this and we know we can afford it.

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We are ready to raise and train another dog. We have the time to put into it. We know that for at least the next 12 months we will be wholly committed to raising our second dog to be a happy, well adjusted and behaviourally healthy dog. This will mean socialising and training – even when we don’t feel like it. Our puppy’s development will not stop just because we’re busy! We need to make time even if we are tired, busy or working long hours. We will sometimes need to forgo social events or some things we’d like to do in favour of tending to our puppy’s long term well-being.

We know that Stevie will cope well with the addition of another dog to our family. He is behaviourally healthy and well trained. We understand that he may not be thrilled with having a puppy around him constantly, just as we may not be thrilled with having to spend our entire day every day with a one year old child, but we have everything figured out, if they start reacting in a bad way, we already have a dog daycare center where we can take them, so that real professional can work with them. We have made provisions so that he can have space and time away from an annoying puppy when he needs it.

We hope to be able to use our puppy to demonstrate with in classes and as he gets older to take some of the workload off Stevie’s shoulders.

Trevor's Litter Photographed By Zoo Studios - Animal Art Photography