Article Title: Behavior Training For Your Teacup Puppy
Author: Dean Shal
So now the fun and hard work begin. It is time to train your
Teacup Puppy. The key points to remember with your teacup dog
breed is to be consistent, don't spend more than ten minutes on
any training period, don't try to teach to many things at once
as this will only confuse your puppy, be patient, and show your
excitement at your puppies ability to follow through with your
commands.
First we will start with behavior training. It is good to
start this training as soon as you get your "Teacup Puppy"
home. In all dog breeds there always has to be the Alpha pack
member. That is YOU! If you don't establish the Alpha
position right away, your Teacup Puppy will learn how to push
you around and make you spoil them rotten. Once you have
established your Alpha position (you are the leader, master,
etc) you will have a much easier time working with your teacup
puppy breed. Your teacup puppy will work hard to please you.
Although spoiling is great to some extent don't over do it,
this will only cause your teacup puppy to be naughty and really
bother people when they come over for a visit or if taking your
teacup puppy outside. If you live in an apartment complex or
condo you must remember courtesy for you neighbors. You want
your Teacup Puppy to be the best puppy in the world, and with
your patients and diligence you will get just that. The funny
part is that you are actually teaching the owner how to train
their Teacup Puppy.
Just for an example, we had a neighbor that had a Lab and they
were always bragging about their dog having had taken obedience
classes and how smart he was. Well unfortunately they wasted
their money because they did not work with their dog on the
things that were taught in the classes. You must be
disciplined enough to work with you teacup puppy or teacup dog
breed everyday. As in my example, if you are not consistent
with what you want your teacup puppy to do and go through daily
training, it will only end up hurting your loving companion the
most. Get the mind set that you are doing this in the best
interest of your Teacup Puppy.
So here are some of the basic commands, as you don't want to
start with anything complicated, that you can start with.
Sit
To start it is best to sit down on the floor with your teacup
puppy. Make sure you have your teacup puppies undivided
attention. You might have to play with him a little bit at
first, especially if he has just gotten out of his crate. Give
him some time to burn off the pent up energy. Place your teacup
puppy in front of you and say, "Sit". Your teacup puppy will
have no clue as to what you want him to do. Making sure your
teacup puppy is standing in front of you, gently push his hind
quarters down and reward him or her. Try doing this several
times. Another technique is to have your teacup puppy standing
in front of you and hold a treat just out of reach. When you
say, "Sit" move the treat guiding towards the back of the
teacup puppies head to the point where he is almost leaning
back. If he falls over or doesn't do it quite right, use the
pushing the hind quarters down again. Once again, I can't say
enough, you need to do this everyday. And Praise, Praise,
Praise. Your teacup puppy should be able to learn this command
in a short period of time.
Lay down
This technique is pretty much the same for training you teacup
puppy breed to sit except that you also want to get the front
end down. A very important reminder, that with teacup puppy
breeds you have to be gentle and don't force them very hard.
Since they are smaller puppy breed, their bones are more
fragile than your average dog, so their bones will break much
easier.
Come/Heel
What I have found as the best technique for this command is to
train your teacup puppy breed indoors. Make you teacup puppy
sit and move away a very short distance. In an excited tone,
tell your teacup puppy to come or come here to start. You
teacup puppy should be happy to come to you. Reward with a
treat. Keep this up until you Teacup Puppy has mastered an
understanding of this command. Once your Teacup Puppy has
mastered this command, it will be safe to work on this command
outside as well. Just to be on the safe side when outside,
please use a leash. An extendable leash will come in very
handy for this training exercise.
Stay
I have found this command a little bit harder for puppies to
get the hang of. I believe this is true because all they want
is to be next to you. This command will take a little bit
longer for you Teacup Puppy to grasp. The first step is to get
your teacup puppy breed to sit and be relaxed. Then while you
have your Teacup Puppies undivided attention, hold out your
right pointer finger saying the command "Stay", while looking
them straight in the eye. Back away one or two steps. Your
"Teacup Puppy" will not immediately understand what you are
trying to tell it to do and will get up repeatedly to follow
you. Start from square one with the sitting position and
follow the above mentioned steps. Eventually you teacup puppy
will understand. As the command gets easier for your teacup
puppy, use you best judgment on distancing yourself farther and
farther away. You can also implement the Come/Heal command as
your teacup puppy understands what "Stay" means, thus working
on two commands at once. And Give you teacup puppy lots of
love and praise.
Well these are just a few of the basic commands that you need
to teach your new teacup puppy breed. After a couple of months
the training period should be done with. One important thing to
remember especially for the first year is to always praise for
good deeds. As a matter of fact I think we could all use a
little praise sometimes.
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