We are about to bring home a mini Dashchund puppy and are wondering if anyone has any tips? We are first time puppy owners and want to make sure we do everything right.
Crate train it and put the dog on a schedule. Don't free feed. Socialize the crap out of it with other people, adults and children. Begin some light obedience with it and make sure it sees you as the pack leader.
I also recommend getting Leerburg's DVD on basic dog obedience.
http://leerburg.com/302.htm or the Monks of New Skete have a really good book out called The Art of Raising a Puppy. I'm sure you can find it on amazon.com.
We were first time owners too! We just got a poodle about a month ago and we have a couple tips for you:
-To train your dog to do his/her business, associate a word with it like "potty time" or "do your business" then whenever you take them ouot to go, repeat the phrase.
-To train your puppy tricks like sitting, lying down, or rolling over, associate a sign with each trick like two fingers pointing down for lie down or something. Essentialy try to make them closed hand tricks so that the dog's mind will still be abe to thnk you have a treat, even if you don't. Also refrain from using two handed signs.
- Make sure to take your dog out to go every night before you put them to bed and first thing in the morning. The dog will probably get up before you do in the first few months so be prepared! Soon, however, your dog will sleep in as late as you!
- To keep the puppy from jumping up onto visitors, ask all guests to keep their hands down. If the hands are up the dog will either try to smell the hands or think there is a tret in the hands. If they can't keep their hands down, dont make a command for jump!
I now have 3 dogs and have come to a conclusion. All of my dogs are housebroken, none of them chew anything and they are very friendly. 1st thing is take your new addition out every 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours to go to the bathroom. When you go to bed, keep the puppy with you or put him/her in a crate. 2nd, in my personal opinion. Put dog food down and water down and let your animal eat and drink whenever it wants. My dogs are all allowed to and because of this they never fight over food, treats or toys for that matter. I have friends that keep there dogs caged for hours at a time even when their home and feed the dogs only one time per day. These dogs fight over food when they eat and fight as soon as they come out of there cages. They rarely are taken outside and are then punished when they use the bathroom in the house. I hope this helps.
Repetition is the key in training. Take the dog out every hour and praise it when it (goes) out side. The dog will relate reward with (going) outside. This works with all forms of training.
try litter box training your puppy my neighbor has his 2 maltese litter box trained. He just put a puppy pad in the litter box and kept bringing them to that spot and after a few weeks they were doing it on thier own.
its important to get a book on your pups breed so you can familiarze yourself with that type of dog.. use your common sensce treat the pup as though it was a human baby.. and enjoy your little guy.. oh one more thing maybe join a dashchund group on yahoo they might have some good tips on the care of baby dogs.. you are in for so much fun.. bren
omg omg omg!!!!! i have a mini weiner dog too! well......its really really really really really hard to keep them still...VERY ENERGETIC!
you might even wanna wait till shes a TINY bit older, so that she will be less.....bouncy
and either way, bouncy or not, you gotta be really really agressive, keep SMALL dog bones in hand, and NEVER EVER hit or yell strait in their face, or even at them, just smoothly, try again
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Crate train it and put the dog on a schedule. Don't free feed. Socialize the crap out of it with other people, adults and children. Begin some light obedience with it and make sure it sees you as the pack leader.
I also recommend getting Leerburg's DVD on basic dog obedience.
http://leerburg.com/302.htm or the Monks of New Skete have a really good book out called The Art of Raising a Puppy. I'm sure you can find it on amazon.com.
We were first time owners too! We just got a poodle about a month ago and we have a couple tips for you:
-To train your dog to do his/her business, associate a word with it like "potty time" or "do your business" then whenever you take them ouot to go, repeat the phrase.
-To train your puppy tricks like sitting, lying down, or rolling over, associate a sign with each trick like two fingers pointing down for lie down or something. Essentialy try to make them closed hand tricks so that the dog's mind will still be abe to thnk you have a treat, even if you don't. Also refrain from using two handed signs.
- Make sure to take your dog out to go every night before you put them to bed and first thing in the morning. The dog will probably get up before you do in the first few months so be prepared! Soon, however, your dog will sleep in as late as you!
- To keep the puppy from jumping up onto visitors, ask all guests to keep their hands down. If the hands are up the dog will either try to smell the hands or think there is a tret in the hands. If they can't keep their hands down, dont make a command for jump!
I hope my tips are helpful!
I now have 3 dogs and have come to a conclusion. All of my dogs are housebroken, none of them chew anything and they are very friendly. 1st thing is take your new addition out every 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours to go to the bathroom. When you go to bed, keep the puppy with you or put him/her in a crate. 2nd, in my personal opinion. Put dog food down and water down and let your animal eat and drink whenever it wants. My dogs are all allowed to and because of this they never fight over food, treats or toys for that matter. I have friends that keep there dogs caged for hours at a time even when their home and feed the dogs only one time per day. These dogs fight over food when they eat and fight as soon as they come out of there cages. They rarely are taken outside and are then punished when they use the bathroom in the house. I hope this helps.
Repetition is the key in training. Take the dog out every hour and praise it when it (goes) out side. The dog will relate reward with (going) outside. This works with all forms of training.
try litter box training your puppy my neighbor has his 2 maltese litter box trained. He just put a puppy pad in the litter box and kept bringing them to that spot and after a few weeks they were doing it on thier own.
its important to get a book on your pups breed so you can familiarze yourself with that type of dog.. use your common sensce treat the pup as though it was a human baby.. and enjoy your little guy.. oh one more thing maybe join a dashchund group on yahoo they might have some good tips on the care of baby dogs.. you are in for so much fun.. bren
do-be the pack leader! use short words-be assertive-give praise
dont- punish the dog(just correct them)- yell-hit-or give into those puppy eyes
go online for different way to train ur dog. i highly reccomend the clicker training
omg omg omg!!!!! i have a mini weiner dog too! well......its really really really really really hard to keep them still...VERY ENERGETIC!
you might even wanna wait till shes a TINY bit older, so that she will be less.....bouncy
and either way, bouncy or not, you gotta be really really agressive, keep SMALL dog bones in hand, and NEVER EVER hit or yell strait in their face, or even at them, just smoothly, try again
use one of the clickers they really really help