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How
quickly your puppy becomes 'clean' indoors depends
entirely on how vigilant YOU are. Prevention is far
better than cure.
DO
NOT LET A NEW PUPPY HAVE THE RUN OF THE HOUSE . Restrict
the area your puppy has to run around in indoors.
When you are too busy to supervise, pop the puppy
into a portable play run until you are ready to
watch over him again. Some newspaper in one
corner will help out if the puppy gets 'caught
short'.
Although we do recommend crating to help with potty training we
believe it is cruel to confine a puppy (or a grown
dog) to a crate all day whilst a family is away.
It is bound to make your puppy hyper active
and full of nervous energy when finally let out.
Training will be difficult and unwanted
behaviours will result.
Whether to crate or not is an entirely personal
choice. If you crate your puppy, overnight, or when
you are not able to supervise it inside your home,
you will minimize toilet 'accidents' and so will
speed up the house training process. If you choose
not to crate, then it is a good idea to restrict the
puppy's access to any but one room at a time - the
room you are in, so
that you can pick up on puppy's telltale sniffing at
the floor when it wants to go outside. Quickly scoop
up the puppy, and CARRY it to your chosen spot in
the yard, where it will soon become a habit for
puppy to consider its toilet place. One room is all
you can properly supervise.
Teaching
Puppy to
use a
particular
spot
outside
for
Toileting
Put some of
puppy's droppings in a particular part of your yard,
and you can train your puppy to use the same place every
time for doing its toilet. CARRY your puppy straight
outside to this spot every time and it will soon
become habit.
If puppy is peeing inside, after being left outside
for awhile, then it hasn't been out long enough. Just
increase the time. DON'T PLAY WITH PUPPY
during toilet trips. Praise and treat when puppy relieves itself
outside, and then bring it back in again. Do NOT rub
its nose in it's mistake.
Very young puppies need to go potty about
every hour, and at some other predictable times such
as after waking up from a sleep, after eating or drinking,
after anything exciting....and then some!
If your puppy is sniffing the ground, walking in circles,
seems a little unsettled, and you are not sure if it
wants to go potty or not, this is our advice to you...
When
in doubt....... OUT !!
Re
Submissive Peeing
Why Do Dogs Get into Mischief?
Dogs
are very social animals that make wonderful pets. However,
with the lifestyle and schedule of a lot of families these
days, dogs need to learn to spend lots of time at home
alone.
Too much freedom too soon
is the major reason that
puppies get into trouble. A puppy that is left unsupervised
to wander about, investigate and destroy things will have
a difficult time learning how to behave properly in your home and also be more difficult to potty train.
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Isabel's 'Sydney' in her crate
in Japan |
Karina used this spacious play
pen to confine Holly and Colby in Melbourne
Australia |
And Laura's Luna was kept out of mischief in
her play pen in California |
Crates
are intended to be transitional for most dogs, although some
dogs love their crate for life. When properly crate trained,
dogs spend their time resting and/or sleeping in the crate.
the pictures above show the ways that can be used to
partition off certain parts of the house to restrict play
areas when your puppy is not being supervised.
How Much Exercise?
Young puppies under twelve months of age should not have
'forced' exercise, such as jogging for miles, or very long
walks on the leash.
The mechanical movement of enforced exercise
at the same pace is not natural to a puppy, which will frequently
change from gallop, to trot, to walk, and flop down from time
to time when given the opportunity. The mechanical dynamic
of a puppy being forced to maintain the same pace on a leash
before it is fully developed can cause damage to loose ligaments
and immature joints, especially in heavier breeds of dog.
Free exercise, where the puppy can change from walk, to romp
to trot, are fine, as well as shorter periods on leash, for
training etc.
Hip Dysplasia (HD) is one joint disease which can be induced
by improper exercise.
Maximum on-leash exercise:-
FROM 10 wks to four months old:
Twenty minutes
on leash once daily, plus romping at free will.
FROM four months to eight months:
Up to an
hour daily as long as some free time is interspersed with
the on leash.
Eight months to twelve months:
.A full hour
on leash once or twice daily plus romping.
No jumping off high places, no Frisbee, or agility until after
twelve months of age.
Stairs Danger!!!
Slippery
Polished Floors...Danger !!!
Running up and down stairs, jumping off high places, and slipping
and sliding about on polished floors, or tiled surfaces, can
cause irreparable damage to young forming joints as can keeping
a puppy behind a high door, with say, a peephole that encourages
the dog to stand on its hind legs for hours at a time to see
over or through the gate. Dogs are a four legged creature
which are not conformed physically to spending a lot of time
on just two of their legs. It is Highly recommended to keep
your puppy/dogs feet clipped so that the natural surface of
there paw pad comes into contact with the floor to give them
a relaxed safe grip.
Failure to observe these things can induce HD (Hip Dysplacia) and other joint
problems even in a healthy puppy.
Vivienne's hubby made this great
little ramp so that Miki wouldn't
have to climb up and down the puppy
- dangerous stairs.
CAUTION:
Common
activities that can be detrimental
in the development of young dogs
includes: running up and down
stairs, jumping off high places, and
slipping and sliding about on
polished floors, or tiled surfaces.
Extended running periods in deep
sand and so on, can cause
irreparable damage to young forming
joints as can keeping a dog behind a
high door, with say, a peephole that
encourages the dog to stand on its
hind legs for hours at a time to see
over or through the gate. Dogs are a
four legged creature which are not
conformed physically to spending a
lot of time on just two of their
legs.
Next
to What You will need
Some Tips to get you Started
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Young puppies like young babies need their rest.
This is of utmost importance for healthy growing and
development of both physical and mental faculties.
Many a potentially good and stable puppy of any
breed has been ruined in a puppy which has been
deprived of adequate sleep time or has been forced
to defend itself from persistent children who do
not understand that puppy is a baby, not a toy.
Make sure puppy has a special place all its own
where the children do not follow, so it can seek
rest when needed, away from its human playmates. [We
highly recommend a house crate] Our recipe is one
hour of play and two hours of rest time for the
first month.
CAUTION
Dogs are quadrupeds, not bipeds.
Running up and down stairs, jumping off high places,
and slipping and sliding about on polished floors,
or tiled surfaces, can cause irreparable damage to
young forming joints. As can keeping a dog behind a
high door, with say, a peephole that encourages the
dog to stand on its hind legs for hours at a time to
see over or through the gate. Dogs are not conformed physically to
spending a lot of time on just two of their legs.
The
more intelligent the dog, the greater is the need for
early training. Add intuition and you have a puppy
who will outsmart you while you're still wondering what
you want him to do.
START TRAINING FROM
DAY ONE or
you may find that your cute adorable puppy becomes an
attention seeking, naughty brat child completely out of
control. We recommend that if you have not trained
a puppy before, that you enlist the help of a good
trainer within the first week you have your new
puppy. Prevention is so much easier (and cheaper)
than cure!
Australian
Labradoodles are wonderful children's dogs. But it
is important that children be taught to respect the
puppy and to handle it gently.
Children should be
supervised around young puppies at all times.
Children should be taught
that puppies need plenty of sleep and must not be
disturbed when they are in their 'safe' place (crate or
bed).
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The
Photographs above are of Quincy and Anne S
in Victoria Australia. A week before
Quincy turned 5 mths old on 26th July
2006, he graduated from puppy obedience into
Level 3 Obedience at the East Gippsland Dog Obedience
Club. Level 3 is Novice Obedience
Trialing level and this puppy is showing
some of the two and three year old dogs of
other breeds 'how it's done' !
What makes
this five months old
puppies different to others you have seen? Partly the fact
that we have spent almost twenty
years developing a breed which is intuitive
, smart, biddable and easily trained.
But the extra special ingredient that
enables
Quincy to reach his potential rather grow
into a naughty attention - seeking brat
child - is - EARLY TRAINING !
From
Day One, Anne and Eddie Safianski have put the
effort into training their new puppy.
The results speak for themselves.
The Truth About The Slip Chain Collar
- Is it Cruel?
This
wonderful, kind, effective training collar
has through no fault of its own, gotten
itself a bad name, I personally believe,
because of the HORRIBLE name its
inventors gave it - 'choke chain' or 'choker
chain.' WHO would want to choke
their dog? Certainly not me!!
And yet I have used this collar to train the
smallest puppies to the largest adult dogs
for more than forty years and I personally
believe it to be the very best training
collar there is. But it must be used
correctly - just like any other piece of
equipment. I refuse to call it a
'choker' and gave it the name 'slip chain
collar' many years ago.
There is
so much absolute twaddle on the internet and
other places, about the slip chain collar
that it is little wonder so many people
(including many trainers) are either afraid
to use it, or refuse to use it due to
lack of understanding.
Interestingly, the prong
collar was once called the 'pinch collar'
(and is illegal in Australia). In
America it is on sale in every pet store,
but I wonder how many pet owners would buy
it if it still had it's horrible first name
PINCH collar? Imagine being 'pinched' around
your own throat!
When we are demonstrating the slip chain
collar, we will often put it around our own
necks or wrists and invite someone to give it
a few good jerks. It's soon seen that
it doesn't hurt, and isn't uncomfortable
even when tugged on much harder than we
would ever need to do with a young puppy!
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<<<This
is the Slip Chain Collar as you
see it hanging up in the store.
A stainless steel series of
links with a ring on each end.
It is designed to sit loosely
around the dog's neck. When a
gentle tug is given to the
leash, the links run through the
ring and make a metallic noise
which the dog hears close behind
its ears.
The noise it makes has the same
affect as a clicker and gains
the dog's attention. It
isn't necessary to JERK the
leash, a gentle tug followed by
a quick release sends a clear
message to the dog when it pulls
or dives away from the handler.
When the dog looks at the
handler, as it will, it is
praised.
It is a
TRAINING collar and
should not be left on the dog as
a regular collar when not being
trained. If it is left on
the dog full time,
then it COULD damage the dog's
throat or even choke it, if
caught on something when no one
was around.
One of the great advantages of
the slip chain collar is its
safety. It
will not so easily slip
accidentally over the dog's
head, allowing him/her to escape
off the leash in busy places.
There are two ways to put on a
slip chain collar - the RIGHT
way and the WRONG way.
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Step 1. Hold one
of the rings on the end
of the chain in
your left hand so that
the chain hangs
down vertically.
Then pick up the bottom
ring with your right
hand. |
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<<< Step 2. Lift
up the ring which is in
your right hand until it
is higher than the one
in your left hand.
Allow the CHAIN TO Slip
down through the ring,
and now you have a
circular collar >>>
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CORRECT slip
over the head |
CORRECT
As you tug on the leash
the chain runs easily
through the ring and
will not catch. As soon
as you release, it runs
back again to loose. |
CORRECT - closer view |
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WRONG |
WRONG
As you tug on the leash,
the chain can not run
and catches in a
non-releasing action |
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One
of the most common unwanted behaviors in young puppies is biting and
nipping.
Puppy Biting and Nipping
More on Puppy Biting and Nipping
More Tips on Puppy Mouthing Behavior
Dogs
That Jump Up on People
Jumping Dogs
Teach Your Puppy Not to Jump Up From Day One!
Practical Solutions for Dogs who Jump on People
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12 wks old Colby working out who is boss, he or 2 year old Holly-Doodle.
Photo Courtesy Karina Holly & Colby. Melbourne
Australia
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PUPPIES PLAY ROUGH!
When your puppy was growing up with his litter mates, they used play as a means of sorting out who stood where in the order of the pack. Puppies play rough! They growl and
snarl & nip each other as they instinctively
seek their order in the pack. When your
puppy is removed from his pack (litter) into
your home, these are the only ways he knows
how to work out where his place is in his NEW
pack (you and your family & friends).
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The First Night Home - And Then
What ?
BEDTIME
Remember that your new puppy
will be missing its siblings and the reassurance of
cuddling up with its litter mates to sleep. Rumple up
the bedding, and add something like some rolled up old
sweaters or similar, to simulate the way puppies sprawl
all over each other to sleep. A ticking clock, or music
softly playing can be helpful.
Our puppies are raised with music and
radio playing. So these sounds may help your new puppy
to relate to something familiar when left alone
for the first time at night. ... those long lonely
nights when puppy must be wondering if you are ever
coming back again!
ABOUT SLEEP
..... Yours too!
We recommend
that you put puppy's crate beside your bed for the first
couple of nights. During the night, if
puppy whimpers and you are sure he/she does not need
to go potty outside, just dangle your fingers into the
crate. Puppy will lick them, feel reassured and go
right back
to sleep. You will also get a good night's sleep as
well! If you do not have a crate, you can tether puppy
beside your bed, on a soft blanket. You'll be surprised
how quietly and contentedly your new baby will settle
for the night, with your comforting presence
close by.
If you have a different area of the house in mind on a
permanent basis, you will most likely find that the
puppy will accept this change readily, once he or she
knows that you will still be around in the morning!
Happy Doodleing
Livin N Lovin Labradoodles
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