Puppies are cuddly and cute and easily get assimilated as part of the family. Puppies learn best when they are young. Your puppy training routine has to start the day you bring the puppy home.

To begin with, provide the puppy with designated play area, a well fitted collar, a private sleeping place and suitable toys.

Puppies are usually curious and open to new experiences, till it is 12 weeks old. The more it experiences – joggers, other dogs, cats, children, cars, public transport and baby carts – the more it learns.

The Earlier the Better

For successful training, you have to ensure your pup learns most of the things while it is still young, so that it leads the life you planned.

Begin with puppy training soon after bringing it home. Make it conversant with the rules. Let all family members handle the puppy in turns, while it goes through the learning stages. This will allow the puppy to know each member by feel and smell.

Dogs are social animals. Don’t isolate them. Set up dog bed as the puppy’s personal space. Place it in a busy location, such as kitchen corner.

Most veterinary centers and pet shops have bitter-tasting non-toxic spray with them. Apply it to those articles which you don’t want the dog to chew or bite.

Assert your Right

Puppies are the first to rush through doors. When you instruct the puppy to wait and allow you first, you show your authority. Puppies have to understand this relationship; else the training becomes long and grueling.

Use food as enticement as this would permit easy training of puppy and also discourage it from indulging in non-permissible activities.

Train the puppy to settle in crate and play with the toys. Leave it alone for short time intervals. This way, it will learn eventually.