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A Balanced Dog... is relaxed, confident, obedient, attentive, devoted, and reacts appropriately in almost any A Dog Out of Balance... may be hyper and out of focus, pushy and insistent, overly submissive, inappropriately fearful or aggressive, anxious or clinging, reactive and unaccepting of change, resistant, inconsistent orunpredictable. |
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We’re always being asked, “What’s the right age to start training my puppy?” Our answer: Everything you do with your puppy is training of one form or another. You are either training the behaviors you want or you are training (or just allowing him to learn) behaviors that you may not want. Puppies are like sponges. They just soak up everything and it is all a learning experience of one type or another. There are special techniques that make training your puppy some of the most fun you will ever have with a dog. It’s like teaching children in pre-school. Everything is a big educational game geared to teach and motivate all at the same time. Start early to turn your pup into the “dog of a lifetime,” your best friend. We teach pups in person starting one week after they have had their first DHPP shot. That usually means that the pup is 7 or 8 weeks of age. But we are happy to help you start even earlier than that by advising you over the phone or suggesting books. Call us today for more information. To cope with and take advantage of the many rapid developmental changes your pup will experience, we recommend that you start guided training as soon as you get your pup. In fact, sooner! Prepare yourself ahead of time. Pups go through rapid changes as their brains and bodies develop. You may one morning see your pup just terrified by something it previously never even noticed. That’s just the beginning of a new developmental stage when the brain is suddenly equipping the developing pup to avoid danger. In the wild, this stage had great survival value. Your pup may go out in the yard one day and decide that he is really interested in what is in the neighbor’s yard and he’s not going to come when you call. This is a sign of increasing independence and is another stage of growing up. If you check the roles of dogs for adoption at shelters, you will find a huge number of dogs between 8 months and 18 months. Ever wonder why? These are the spirited pups who grew with no guidance, no training and then suddenly became “too big” or “too hard to handle.” Your pup needs guidance to grow up great. |
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