Puppy Training Tips For Faster Learnin

Here are 5 puppy training tips to help teach your puppy to behave and learn better.

* Patience

If you expect results very quickly from your puppy, you will end up getting frustrated, and your puppy will feel bad. If you create the impression that learning is unpleasant, you will have difficulty teaching your puppy new things as he gets older. And your puppy training sessions will lose their focus. Puppies learn in spurts, and they go through stages where they forget things. Whilst your puppy may seem to have mastered an activity one day, the next he may forget completely. Understanding that this is normal, and neither a reflection on your abilities as a trainer nor his ability to learn, will make it easier to ride through those days. Being patient, repeating the training, and soon the memory lapses will go and your puppy will have really integrated a new behaviour.

* Be Brief

Like children, puppies have a short attention span. If your puppy stops being able to pay attention to you because he's reached his limit for that day, finish up the session and start again when he's rested. Your puppy can get mentally and physically tired whilst learning, and this affects his attention span. If he can't pay attention to you, he won't be able to learn anything else during that session.

* Gentleness

Puppies are very sensitive. When they are emotionally or psychologically stressed, they won't learn. Don't train roughly, or put him in situations that are scary and expect positive results to be generated. For example, when teaching your dog to swim, don't just throw him in the water. Fears, which can be easily picked up, will make him learn more slowly. And he will be resistant to learning new things if he begins to associate it with unpleasant experiences. Animals have a wonderful innocent delight that should be nurtured. You can be firm, but be nice.

* Build Confidence

Like adults, creating confidence in your puppy gives him the best foundation in his life, both in terms of being able to train him, and having a well adjusted dog who doesn't create behavioral problems. Spend some positive time with your puppy that isn't in training mode. Play with him, enjoy his company. Just sitting with him, and having fun with him, will build a confident dog and a loyal friend.

* Simple steps

Puppies all learn best when taught in a simple step by step way.