Archive for the ‘Puppy Training’ Category

This puppy training video follows Ashton Fitz-Gerald of Sit Means Sit with his five month old puppy ‘Phender’. Today Ashton is demonstrating how to get your puppy comfortable with staying on a dog bed, in this case it is one of the dog cots that we have available through our online dog supplies store.

You can begin to train your puppy to stay on their bed by beginning with teaching them to go to their bed whenever they eat, or get a treat. It’s very straightforward to guide your dog to their bed using a treat or leash. By feeding, watering and playing with your puppy on their bed, it will develop a connection in their head that good things come when they are on their bed.

Once the dog bed has been linked in the dog’s mind with something of value, it becomes easier to reinforce the concept of staying. By bringing this concept into a formalized dog obedience routine it becomes easy to develop reliable control over your dog, and is a lot easier to train them to stay.

In the below video, Ashton shows us how the concept of having a puppy stay on the bed can be further enhanced by using a Sit Means Sit dog training collar in your dog’s training. Phender already understands the link between the tap from the dog collar and things of value such as food, toys and treats. This makes the transition to staying on his bed fairly easy too. The Sit Means Sit dog training collar allows us to maintain a puppy’s attention, even out when we are out of sight, inside a building. Ashton demonstrates how you can begin building on your dog’s attention using the Sit Means Sit dog training collar with treats and a place cot.

Check out our other puppy training videos here. Please feel free to leave your comments and questions below about training your puppy to stay.

Teaching your dog to sit and to remain stationary until he is either released from the command, or given another different command is very important
in your clarity to your dog. A lot of times people have the bad habit of calling the dog to them in the initial behavior training which can influence the dog, and
create a bad habit of the dog breaking the command because of anticipation.

In this video, Sit Means Sit CEO Fred Hassen goes over the steps to see to it that your dog can have a very steady command and in conjunction with
the Sit Means Sit remote dog training collar, your obedience commands can be as consistent while the dog is away from you, as they are with the dog next to you.

A Puppy is always learning, and with Sit Means Sit dog training, a puppy is never too young to learn or too old to start. We often hear how someone doesn’t want to do anything with their puppy yet, because they don’t want to mess him up.

Whatever you are doing with a puppy whether it’s puppy potty training or puppy crate training, or basic obedience with a young dog, they always seem to pretty resilient and
willing to learn as you can tell in this video.. You can often see a young puppy listening more to one member of the family than the other even though they may be getting mixed signals.
Adults sometimes see situations differently, so mixed signals can happen in a household but that should not stop you from trying to be as consistent as you can with your puppy.

At Sit Means Sit dog training, we like the training to be a family experience so that you can even take your puppy to public places like you see in the video above. Make sure he is up to date with all
of his shots when taking him into public. He’s part of the family also, so you can treat him as such.

It is important though that you don’t put restrictions on what your puppy can learn because with the Sit Means Sit dog training system, we find it entirely normal for a 16 week old puppy to be able to do lots of things, even in a distracting environment, and even can ride a skateboard as you can see in this video. Get out there and explore the world with your puppy, and you will all be happy when we show you just how you can achieve that!

Sit Means Sit dog trainer Bob Burnell, (Palm Beach Dog Training) brought his 3 1/2 month old puppy ‘Kacey’, to her first event in this video. Bob was doing a presentation at the South Florida Police Expo, and also brought Kacey a long for some exposure to other environments, and of course everyone likes puppys! Kacey is a Vizsla-mix breed.

It was great to expose her to all the people, lights, and sounds. She did great with everything. Shown here is some work Bob did with her on stage. Kacey was very thrilled to do the work as you can plainly see in the video

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This is also a great example of our training in video that catches us linking and chaining our Sit Means Sit remote dog collar with food. Do you want to see another example?

Watch Bob perform at the police expo with an adult dog.

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Fred Hassen checking out his new 9 week old Labrador Retriever’s desire to retrieve objects. Fred got the dog dog the night before, and has had the dog for less than 24 hours at the time this video was recorded. It should be fun watching the training videos of this dog as he grows. Here is more information on Labrador Retriever Puppies: Labrador Retrievers: What’s Good About ‘Em, What’s Bad About ‘Em

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Morris Chaisson, who runs our Sit Means Sit New Orleans Dog Training office, was very busy at the New Orleans Convention Center which had over 7,000 animal experts for the American Veterinarian Medical Association, showing his Sit Means Sit dog training off to the throngs that were in attendance.

Sit Means Sit dog trainers always gather a crowd, and the news people usually grab us for an interview. Puppies are always a big hit for children and people in attendance at these events. Here is the Story on the event, a long with a video interview with Morris Chaisson from Sit Means Sit.

This is a dog training video clip of one of the clients of our Los Angeles Dog Trainer Luciano Aguilar, from our Sit Means Sit office in L.A. Teaching dogs to swim is another one of many things that quite a few of the Sit Means Sit locations specialize in, and it makes life easier and safer for both the owner and the dog. Lili, who is the young dog in this video, definetly demonstrates that she can be placed into the pool……or in her case, she can dive into the pool from anywhere and find her way out. Sit Means Sit dog training teaches dogs not only to get IN the pool on command, but to get OUT as well.

This article was Written for The Setember/October Vegas Dog Magazine and the October/November Arizona Dog Magazine 2007

By Toni Drugmand & Fred Hassen

Puppy Training –
Training can begin as soon as your new pup comes home.

By 7 weeks of age, the puppy has a fully developed brain and nervous system. This is the optimum age for a puppy to leave his litter to begin his new relationship with you!

Boundaries

Day one begins with setting boundaries and house rules that will be in place for a lifetime, start with essentials like house breaking.

House Training

House training is easy to teach because dogs are clean by nature and don’t want to soil their den. The important issues with potty training (Housetraining) are close supervision and giving the pup the chance to go outside when he has to relieve him/herself. House training fails because owners give the puppy more freedom than he is ready for.

Crate Training

Utilize a crate to replicate the “den” environment that dogs need and feel secure in. If the puppy is given the opportunity to get out of the crate when he needs to go, his natural desire to be clean and not soil the area he sleeps and spends time in will keep him from relieving himself in the crate.

Use the leash

Take your puppy on a leash or long line to the area where he should eliminate every time you take him from his crate. Use a word to associate the action of going to the bathroom every time puppy goes, example :”go potty”. This word association will help when traveling, or out in public to cue your dog to relieve himself quickly. After he goes, praise him and reward with a treat, or toy. Distractions are mighty at this young age, so if he doesn’t go, put him back into his crate. Repeating the process in 15 minuets. Continue this way until you and your dog have a routine going. Success earns the pup freedom and time is gradually extended as he grows older and reliable. Don’t expect a puppy to go more than a few hours without having to eliminate, and don’t expect him to wait once he is out of his crate.

Puppy Management

An easy system for house training is to use a crate with a dog door and an enclosed dog run. The dog crate goes up to the dog door making sure the puppy can go through the dog door into a protectively enclosed environment. With the crate-dog door system setup, your puppy will quickly learn to let himself out of his containment area to relieve himself at the same time it will help develop independence.

Dogs are pack animals preferring to be with us rather than alone. Most canine “separation anxiety” would never develop if the dog, as a puppy, had been trained in this puppy management system. The puppy learns early to deal with being alone without the opportunity to dig, chew or destroy things. We want to help the puppy avoid mistakes that could develop bad habits and could easily have been prevented with good management.

Supervision

When the pup isn’t in his crate, constant supervision must be used to teach what is important. The easiest way to do this is to literally tie or tether the pup to your waist with a leash or line, or tether him to a piece of furniture where he has no more than three feet of freedom in any direction. Watch carefully if the puppy is tied to avoid chewing. These are some of the first essentials for a good start with your new puppy. Enjoy him and give him a good start with safe and secure boundaries in your home!

Article by Toni Drugmand and Fred Hassen

Whether you adopt a puppy or purchase one from a breeder, puppies come in various shapes, sizes and temperaments. I know they are all cute, but they also need training.

Here is a clip from a Sit Means Sit seminars that was done at our Phoenix Arizona location teaching our system with linking food with a very young puppy. Bravo grew up to be a very strong, confident dog and you can see him here as a mature adult dog.