Your puppy is rapidly growing and evolving. After a few weeks at home, the dog should be familiar with the fundamentals of an everyday life and be focusing on obedience training and mastering simple commands.

Use the Right Reward

The reward-based teaching which include high-value incentives such as food treats, toys to promote the puppy's desired behavior. This method will help your puppy gain respect, trust in you as their leader, be motivated to practice and learn, and have a long-lasting positive experience.

Be Patience and Reliable

Maintain a clear routine for your dog to help them get back on track quicker. Make a regular dog's routine that includes potty breaks, meals and playtimes, puppy training sessions, and nap times. This will assist your puppy in learning the everyday household schedule, feeling safe and confident, providing order, and encouraging positive behavior.

Always Practice

To teach and learn their commands, arrange a few brief training sessions each day. You can only be able to keep a puppy's focus for 5-10 minutes at a time for young puppies, and 10-15 minutes for older puppies. Keep your dog's training sessions short, enjoyable, and inspiring, so they look forward to doing them again and again.

Many new dog parents bring their new puppy home around 8-10 weeks.

  • Studying the Fundamentals, such as their names, proper house etiquette, order introductions, and early socialization.
  • Establishing a regular routine for your puppy that includes food and drinking periods, play, including chew toys and training times, potty breaks, and nap times.
  • Potty training your puppy.
  • Crate training them as well, it is speeding up the housebreaking process. It aids in the development of an autonomous puppy and decreases separation anxiety.
  • Introducing basic obeying orders. At this stage, you should sit and come.
  • Begin with socializing with your immediate family and close friends. Your dog will meet new people in his life, so getting them used to it early on will help them positively associate those experiences.

At 10-12 weeks, you'll start building on your pup's orders, socialization, and impulse control at this stage.

  • Adding more basic obedience orders. You'll want to use a high-value incentive to aid in the instruction of these commands.
  • Allowing your dog to get used to their collar and leash by letting them to carry around the house as you supervise.
  • Continue to socialize by welcoming new members to the community.
  • Practicing impulse control management by making the dog wait for something.
  • Begin threshold training, which entails telling your dog to sit in doorways, open doors, crosswalks, and other areas before quietly walking towards them.

At 3-4 months, your puppy is rapidly maturing, and you will begin to include more advanced training exercises with the commands.

  • Begin by putting together command combos and working indoors.
  • Getting used with outside distractions
  • At 4-6 months, your puppy should begin practicing his or her commands.
  • Improving their order skills by training them in the front or backyard of your house.
  • Taking your dog on longer runs, starting at the end of the block and working your way down the block.
  • Start weaning your dog off of food incentives at this stage in their training by asking for multiple instructions first before rewarding them with a treat.

6 MONTHS - ONE YEAR

Potty training, crate training, and socialization can all be a part of the puppy's routine. Strengthening what they've already mastered and continuing to reinforce all of your puppy's commands.

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