How To Make Your Puppy Follow Commands

Have you recently gotten a puppy and you’re wondering how you can train him/her to follow commands? Sometimes this can be a fairly difficult process, since puppies tend to have a lot of energy and a short attention span. However, with the right amount of patience and a sense of humor, you have a good chance of being successful. It’s also important to start the training process early, preferably when the puppy is 8 to 10 weeks old.

Teaching your dog commands

The first thing you’ll want to train the puppy to do is to use “the bathroom” outdoors and outside of the house. Make sure that you feed your puppy twice a day, once in the morning and once later in the day and then wait until about 20 minutes after they are done eating, and take them outside.

Try to talk in a happy, positive way and direct them towards door outside when it is time for them to go to the bathroom. Make sure that you show them praise when they are done going to the bathroom so they learn to understand what they are doing is a good thing.

Be aware of puppies

Since puppies can only hold their bladders for a little while, usually a few hours, make sure that when your puppy is done with a nap or playing/exercising, take him/her outside to go to the bathroom. They’ll start figuring out that every time they get up, they should probably go out to do their “business”.

Try to keep your puppy in a confined area in the house and keep them with you to help them and help to decrease the number of accidents. If you follow your routine on a regular basis, it won’t take long for your puppy to understand housetraining. Having a doggy door is another excellent option to consider, because it will help make the training routine easier.

If you keep the doggy door open at first, then go outside and begin calling your puppy, it will eventually know when to come back into the house. Then if you follow along with this same routine each time, the puppy will hopefully soon learn to let themselves in and out whenever it needs to go to the bathroom.

Basic obedience

To train puppies with basic obedience commands is pretty much the same as teaching an adult dog. You simply need to limit your training sessions to shorter sessions of about five or ten minutes, and enjoy how your puppy is full of energy and easily excited about everything around them.

You can start by using or taking one command, such as “sit” and concentrate on only that command for a week’s length and try to stick with that command and use only that one so that you do not confuse them or overwhelm them by trying to teach them to much in a short period of time. It is also a good idea to try to do at least one training session every day.

Your puppy should be able to catch on quickly, and then he or she will enjoy being rewarded after good behavior and learning commands. With using a command like “sit,” you tell the puppy to sit, and then do that while you hold a treat up above his head until they have to crane their neck back to see it, forcing their bottom down. When their bottom touches down, you give it the treat and praise it.

Teaching a puppy to lie down should be fairly simple, since they are naturally playful and energetic by nature. When you have gotten them in a “sit” position, you can try to tap a treat on the floor and say “down” at the same time. Then the puppy should leap down to get the treat. Once they do this, praise him or her.

It’s most likely they won’t do it on the first few attempts, but just keep trying. To teach “heel”, first you need to walk your puppy on a leash. Every time it begins to go in front of you, you need to change directions. Then when it catches up and is right to your leg, say “heel”. Then when it passes you (which it most likely will) change directions again. Continue to practice this each time you and your puppy go out for a walk.

Hopefully these suggestions will help you in training your puppy to follow simple commands.