Dog Training & Care : How to Get a Puppy to Stop Biting

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PuppyPerfect: The User-Friendly Guide to Puppy Parenting

• ISBN13: 9780764587979
• Condition: USED – GOOD
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The book is user-friendly.

The approach is puppy-friendly!

Your puppy is so irresistible, cute, and lovable–until she chews your shoe, uproots your flowers, ruins your rug, demolishes your remote, or gobbles up your steaks.

Understanding your puppy’s unique personality, breed-specific traits, and temperament will help you tailor and implement proper, positive training techniques to save your sanity and your puppy! PuppyPerfect explains how to develop a nurturing and mutually respectful relationship with your puppy, which is the key to getting her to behave properly. You’ll get information on supplies you need for a puppy, proper feeding, healthcare, and more. You’ll… More >>

PuppyPerfect: The user-friendly guide to puppy parenting

Before and After Getting Your Puppy: The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog

• ISBN13: 9781577314554
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Combining two popular titles in one value-priced edition, Before and After Getting Your Puppy is a simple, practical guide for anyone bringing a new puppy into the home. In clear steps, with helpful photos and easy-to-follow training deadlines, Dr. Ian Dunbar, who pioneered puppy classes and a loving style of dog training in the 1970s, presents a structured yet playful and humorous plan for raising a wonderful dog. The guide is based on six developmental deadlines: completing owner education and preparation, assessing a puppy’s prior socialization and education, teaching errorless house-training and chewtoy-training, completing a socialization program of meeting strange dogs and people, learning bite inhibition… More >>

Before and After Getting Your Puppy: The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog

Dog Training – Teach Your Puppy to Love Her Crate

Caring for Your Puppy: A Guide to Preventive Health Care

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Small manual/guide to raising a healthy puppy. Chapters include: Getting Ready for Your Puppy; Basic Training and Exercise; routine Exams; Common Diseases and Ailments; Parasite control; Clinical Nutrition; Grooming; Reproduction; First Aid; Suggested Reading; & Veterinarian Information…. More >>

Caring for Your Puppy: A Guide to Preventive Health Care

What to Do When Your Puppy Bark Non-Stop in the Middle of the Night

Stop Puppy Barking – How to Prevent Barking Problems in Puppies

Are you frustrated with your new puppy’s excessive barking and whining?  If you don’t take steps now to stop puppy barking, you may end up with a dog with barking problems.   It’s much easier to teach your dog good habits now than to try to change established bad dog habits later on. The Nuisance Barking Is Driving You CrazyMost new pet owners don’t realize how much a young canine will bark and howl.   It’s normal for him to be upset for a few days.   After all, he’s always been around his mom and littermates, and now, all of a sudden, they’re gone.   It’s all right to reassure him and comfort him, but the key is when you do it.   No matter how pitiful he is, never comfort him when he’s barking or whining.   All you’re doing is teaching him is the excessive barking is the way to get attention from you.   Wait until he stops before giving him any attention at all.   How to stop a barking puppy?  There are several ways.   Make a noisemaker by putting a few pennies in an empty pop can and taping it shut.   Shake it loudly when he’s barking, and the noise will usually startle him into silence.   Shake it whenever he barks.   Don’t give him any other attention when he’s barking or whining.   He’ll soon learn that nuisance barking doesn’t get him anywhere with you.   A humane way to quickly quiet a barking dog is to say, “enough,” and hold his muzzle shut firmly but gently with your hand.   He’ll try to back away or shake your hand off.   Hold him by his collar so he can’t, and hold onto him until he becomes calm and stops wiggling around.   This means he’s accepted your leadership.   This works for two reasons.   First, he can’t bark with his mouth shut!  Second, you’re showing him that you’re the leader, you expect him to listen to you, and you won’t hesitate to enforce your authority.   This is an important lesson for him to learn, and will prevent many future dog behavior problems.

Reinforce Good BehaviorMany puppies bark because they’re full of energy.   Sometimes they get too excited when you’re playing with them and bark out of excitement.   In this case, take a time-out and let him calm down.   Use up all that excess energy with plenty of exercise and play time.   Many dog owners don’t realize that their pets need at least an hour and a half of exercise every day.   Walking him in the morning and evening is a great way to exercise him (and you) and spend quality time with him.   He’ll also enjoy seeing new people and places in his walks, which will help him accept new situations more easily. Obedience classes are a great idea.   He’ll learn to listen to you even when there are lots of distractions.   A good dog training program will also help you establish good habits while he’s still young.   Don’t wait to get started to prevent barking problems and stop puppy barking.   Your new friend will be much more fun to be around when he’s quiet and well-behaved.

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Guide to Crate Training a New Dog or Young Puppy

Crate training is one of the best possible things that you can do for your puppy. Not only will the puppy be easier to housetrain but overall you will have a happier, more secure dog that has his or her own place to sleep and stay both when you are home and when you are away. Crate training is also an asset when you plan to travel with your dog or puppy. Crate training keeps the animal calm on airplanes and also keeps you pet safe when driving. Crates can be attached to seats by seatbelts and harnesses similar to how children’s car seats are fastened into the car. Just like car seats they prevent injury to the dog in the case of a sudden stop or an accident.
Crate training does not happen overnight, and does require both work and attention by the owner. Crate training should never be used as a punishment for a mistake or a bad behavior, or the dog or puppy will see the crate as a bad place and this will defeat the whole purpose of the training. To start the crate training in the most positive way start very slowly and only progress at the rate the puppy is comfortable with.
Picking The Right Size Crate
Depending on how large your puppy will get it will usually make sense to buy the size that will fit the full sized dog rather than having to buy multiple crates as your puppy grows. It is important, however, if the puppy is small and the crate is larger that you limit the space in the crate for the small puppy or he or she will simply use one end for the bathroom and one end as the “den”. To make a large crate smaller a mesh screen or piece of wood can be used and then slide to give more room as the puppy matures. When necessary it can be completely removed to give the older dog full use of the crate area.
The idea size of crate, or crate area, is about the length of the dog when it is down, paws extended. Most crates come in standard widths that will allow small dogs to really stretch out but may require larger dogs to sleep in a coiled position. Dogs should be able to stand up comfortably in the crate without the top of the crate pressing on their head or shoulders.
Giant or very large breeds of dogs will generally outgrow most commercial crates before they completely mature. Some specially made crates for large breeds are available on the internet and through breed associations or even pet stores.
Getting Started
Getting started means just familiarizing the puppy with the crate. Make sure the crate is the correct size and that there is comfortable bedding in the crate. Start by sitting with the puppy in front of the open crate. Place a treat, with the puppy seeing the placement, into the very front of the crate. When the puppy reaches in to get the treat say “Crate” and the puppy’s name, just once. Allow the puppy to take the treat out of the crate, and do not close the door. Do not try to keep the puppy in the crate longer and make no comment when the puppy exits the crate. Next time repeat the process putting the treat in far enough the puppy must step in completely. Again, when approaching the crate say “Crate” and the puppy’s name, and then say “Good Dog” and the puppy’s name when they are in the crate. Allow them to exit when they want and ignore the exiting behavior.
Gradually feed a few treats through the side of the crate to encourage the puppy to stay. Always allow him or her to exit when they want, but only praise the going in behavior, never the coming out!
Within a few days the puppy will be comfortable in the crate for a few minutes. Try closing the door but only for a minute at a time, staying right beside the crate. With the puppy’s comfort level leave the crate door closed for longer periods and begin to move away for a few seconds, gradually lengthening the time.
Never return and open the crate when the puppy starts to whine or bark, as this will encourage this behavior. Wait until the puppy is quiet before taking him or her out of the crate. Never leave a puppy in the crate for more than 2 to 4 hours at a time, especially when they are small and are not yet housetrained.

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