Start Walking Your Lab Puppy

There is zero truth to the myth you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but if you're asking this question there's, a lot more. You need to know from the moment you get your dog, regardless of their age.

You should be teaching them. Ideally, the youngest you would get a puppy is at about ten weeks old. That's, a perfect time to start training, but so is ten years. The relationship you have with your dog is going to be the foundation of all of your future success with them.

Your very first priority should be to bond with your dog, and, if you do that, the communication between you two is going to blossom today. Flurry - and I are going to show you several great ways to emphasize trust, build a strong relationship and build communication with one another.

We got some work to do don't we a couple of days ago, I had flurry over here, and I noticed that he was a little nervous about going down the stairs, because I know he could be nervous about these stairs.

I'm gonna seize this opportunity to build some trust with him and that's, one of the cornerstones of teaching any dog. Now, for safety reasons, we're gonna start here at the bottom of the stairs. That's, probably gonna be a lot less daunting to flurry.

Remember your dog has some say in how fast training should be as well. So, for example, if flurry decides that today, isn't the day where he's comfortable to learn how to go down the stairs. I'm. Going to accept that I'm gonna make sure that flurry, doesn't fall down the stairs.

So I'm gonna secure him on his leash and harness here and I ' Ve got some great treats that he really loves. I'm gonna see. If I can just lure him down one steps, he's a little there. You see that doesn't want to take that step.

You can understand, I mean it ' S got to be a little weird. Why is the ground changing level right there? He just lifted his foot. I love that he's, trying there look. Okay, all right! That's! One interesting loophole: I'll, take it.

The fact. Is he's engaged with me. He's, trying right now, plus. I wanted him to know that I'm here. He can trust me and that he doesn't need to worry about falling and I'm, not gonna. Let anything bad happen to him.

You want to go this week, okay, hey! He made it somehow to the next stair. Yes, good job buddy very good, so he's, made it from one stair to the other, albeit a bit unconventionally, but that's. Okay, I'm, not picky.

Remember the bigger picture here is we're, emphasizing trust between one another and to make sure I'm here to support him. Yes, look at this guy's, yes, good job, so he's handled a couple of stairs there.

Now let's, see if we can get him to go all the way down to the ground. Yes, good job. We'll, give him an extra big reward there, let's, try out a bit faster, yes right away! Just like I thought. Yes, I think he's, learning the stairs wonderfully yeah good job really good.

So I'm, just thrilled with that you can't ask for any better than that. That's, great good job flurry, part of knowing when it's, the right time to teach your puppy is being able to read them. If you notice that your dog isn't particularly enthusiastic about learning something new, then that might be your cue to take a step back and be a little bit more patient when working with them, and so they're feeling a little More comfortable, why are you biting my hand, ouch all right now that we're down here? Let & # 39! S have some fun by far the fastest way to get your dog to bond with you is to get them playing with you and that's, not just my opinion.

Either. A study done on the physiological effects of human animal interactions has shown that levels of the bonding hormone oxytocin increase for both the human and the dog. During interactions like this, when your puppy is having fun good things happen, this may not look much like training, but actually this is one of the most powerful things you can do to get your dog eagerly excited about.

You remember the two raw ingredients for teaching a good game of fetch are chase and tug-of-war. Come on. Let's. Go look at that and right there. We just got him to do his first fetch that was, and just look at his body language.

You can tell he's, having a blast right now. Look at that make sure you let him win a little bit. He'll, be a fetching machine in no time since every puppy will have different needs. You should make sure that you talk to your vet about the level of exercise that's safe for your puppy as he grows, but as a general rule, the younger your puppy is the more careful you need to be Fleury.

That was excellent. Now I think it's time to go inside and play a brain game. Whoa come on all right, let's, see if we can go up the stairs, yeah good job. You did it when you have a dog as young as flurry you're, not gonna have a ton of mutual communication.

Yet so how do we begin to build communication with a dog who & # 39? S had little virtually no training at all. Well, I know that flurry likes to play and I know he likes food. So let's, see if we can use some treats to build some more sustained interest in interacting with me as important as exercises lots of mental stimulation for your dogs.

So we're gonna play a little game with flurry there. We go, I knew that would wake you up. Now. We're gonna put the treat right here. I'm gonna cover it up right there and let's, see if he can figure out where the treat went.

This is gonna be interesting. Yes, there we go and hey nice work bud and he found the treat. This is a great game for teaching him how to brainstorm. We're gonna put the treat there cover it up there.

You go good work that's, nice. Now let's, see if he puts two and two together here. I'm gonna put a treat inside of here and just do that now and let's, see if he figures it out again. This kind of on the right track: maybe there's, the treat you got it all right, chunky, burrito! You ready to do this with two cups.

Now let's, see if he can do it with both of them. Okay. Well, he seems to have forgotten about the treat here and he seems to prefer the cup long as he's. Having a good time, I'm happy now. It might look like Flores just getting treats cool.

What else is happening here? Look he's. Engaging me. He's interested in working with me right now, whenever your puppy is paying attention to you like this, it's, a golden opportunity, and I don't want to squander that.

I want to seize that opportunity to really build some communication with him by playing a simple game like this. You're, increasing your overall bond and communication simultaneously because you're teaching, your puppy, that looking at you can make his life awesome and he's, paying attention to you.

That probably means he's, receptive to learning new things, get flurry a thumbs up if you think he did a good job. Thank you so much for patrons who made this video possible this month and also make sure you're, subscribed to my channel and pick up a copy of my book for the most thorough dog training.