February 24, 2010

Puppy Training 101: Essential Accessories Needed To Teach Your Puppy

Are you ready for Puppy Training 101? To begin with, you will need three specific pieces of accessories to be able to properly teach your puppy: a training dog collar, a leather training leash, as well as a 15-foot length clothesline rope.

If you’re currently considering that your puppy’s present leather collar will work, and that his 4-foot chain leash will probably be all you need, you might as well stop reading this content and save yourself as well as your puppy weeks of discomfort plus hardship. There simply is no substitute for the best training equipment. A training collar is really a slip-chain type constructed of metal. Do not substitute one that is manufactured from nylon.

One of the numerous things an individual’s puppy is going to understand will be to have confidence in you. However your puppy will never acquire that sense of confidence if you substitute improper training accessories which will not be efficient. When there is no trust there can be no respect, and no respect indicates no need to please. No desire to please indicates no motivation to learn. Add them all up and you possess an uncontrollable puppy which will never accomplish his rightful place in the human planet.

The Proper Leash

Your leash should be of the regular five to six foot leather type with a hand loop at one end. Training dog collars as well as leather training leads can be found from pet stores and also via online catalogs. Training collars are sometimes called choke-chains, which is incorrect. While it’s true that a training collar can choke, if it’s worn on the puppy correctly and used properly, there’s no way it can be a choke-chain and cause harm to your pet.

The Right Collar

The collar should be large enough to slide over the puppy’s head comfortably, but not so large as to fall over the ears if the puppy should lower his head. A good rule of thumb to follow is to place the collar on the puppy and cinch it up tight for a moment and observe whether you have three inches of chain left over. If so, you have a fairly good fit. It is better to have a training collar that’s slightly too large than one slightly too small.

Final Puppy Training Necessities That You Cannot Find In A Store

The remaining equipment that you’ll need cannot be purchased at any store, but without them, you cannot successfully train your puppy.

You must love and care for your puppy! You must have patience and exercise patience while your puppy is learning. A shallow patience mixed with a short temper will ensure complete and utter failure.

To lose your cool and blow up means the end of training, so here’s a little tip that might help you keep your cool:

It takes 4 to 5 days for an average puppy to learn the average thing. Do not expect your puppy to perform like a professional the first few days of teaching him something new. It just doesn’t happen that way. If you lose control of yourself, you’ve lost charge of the actual situation. When this happens, your puppy loses confidence in you.

I hope you have enjoyed the first lesson in Puppy Training 101!

Learn more about Puppy Obedience Training. Stop by Julie Wilson’s site where you can find out all about Puppy Training 101 and what it can do for you.

Filed under Dog Training by Julie Wilson on Feb 24th, 2010.

Puppy Training 101: Essential Accessories Needed To Teach Your Puppy

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