Friday, August 26, 2011

Newfoundland puppies training

Ok, so here’re few things about training of Newfoundland puppies that you might be interested in. If you have got a Newfoundland puppy, it’s good to start with its training as soon as possible. Also, even if you are considered by pet’s owner in your family, it’s a good idea that you introduce other family’s members in puppy’s training as well. The main thing that you should tell them (and you should know that too), is that the dog must not be superior to its owner. A subordinate puppy obeys orders better than the one who thinks that’s on higher level than its owner and therefore it’s easier to train.
When you are training your Newfoundland puppy, use same words whether you are commanding or praising. If you use different words (of course that people in most of cases tend to use same, but this can happen by mistake as well), there is a big possibility that the puppy will get confused and its training will be overall harder. 
Also, when you are rewarding your puppy, do that as quickly as possible, so the puppy can realize that it got rewarded for doing something in a way it should.
While you’re training your puppy, try not to make lessons too complicated or long, especially at the beginning. If you feel that your puppy is giving up from doing certain task that you gave it, don’t become impatient and ask from it to do it at all costs. Just give him some other simpler lesson and complete the training for that day, because it’s a good idea to finish exercise with a well done job. One of the first lessons that your puppy should be taught is to come when called. 
This was already discussed in some of the previous posts, but it will be mentioned once more, as it’s very important whether you are Newfoundland or some other dog owner. You should NEVER hit your dog and there are many reasons for that. Not only that you will inflict pain to it (and hitting pets isn’t a nice thing to do), but your puppy can take that on different ways, which depends from situation. For example, if you call your puppy to come to you and it doesn’t come right away, but in 5 minutes and you hit it, your puppy might think that it will be hit every time when comes. Because of this, your puppy might resist obeying this command in future and it will make training harder overall. Even yelling is a bad thing to do, because your puppy may lose its confident.
Newfoundland dogs are known by their patience, so try to be at least patient as they are, never lose your temper and try to make both of you and your puppy happy.

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