First Coast Pet

Puppy training begins with so many different aspects that relate to their overall development, including how to feed your puppy, housetraining, grooming tips and socialization. So what do we mean by that? Knowing how to socialize your puppy is necessary in order to give him a positive upbringing.

Growing into adulthood is a very important topic that should be taken into consideration. While it is true that wild animals survive without human care at all, a new puppy needs to be socialized successfully and have the desire and willingness to interact with people around it and know their owner is in charge.

Teaching Your Puppy Socialization

This socialization is accomplished by diligence, hard work and intelligent handling. If you want to have a sically acceptable, confident and intelligent pet, expose your puppy gently and patiently to a wide variety of external stimuli.

When a pet has a neglectful owner they become spooked easily, they bite in fear, back away when approached and will act socially unacceptably. The owners never took the time to show them what the world has to offer. Often these poor, neurotic animals are filed under the unfortunate status of ‘outdoor dogs’  since they have become virtually uncontrollable under normal living conditions as family pets.

Puppy socialization training includes exposure to noises, unfamiliar people and places, other animals, children, travel and other stress-like situations. Puppies may be cautious about unusual and unknown things. Their lack of confidence may be demonstrated by barking, backing away, whining, or acting with nastiness.

Reassuring your puppy, talking to it quietly, giving praise and coaxing it to explore the offending object or person, will teach your pup that there is nothing to fear. Each time it overcomes its anxiety, new self-confidence is developed and it will find its next unfamiliar situation less threatening. Reassurance is important in your puppy training techniques.

Your puppy’s exposure to people and children should be treated in a similar fashion. Many puppies are quite comfortable with all types of people, big or small, but just as many are timid when presented with unfamiliar faces. To encourage socialization and freindship, ask children and even strangers to play with your puppy. Kneeling to its level or sitting beside it on the floor, will eliminate some of the trepidation it might feel by their size or quickness of the children’s movements.

Your Child and Puppy

Very young children should be allowed to play with animals only under direct adult supervision. Remember to teach children that puppies are not toys and if they injure one it can easily affect how the puppy adjust to or reacts to children from that point on. Therefore, if your child is too young to understand the concept of gentleness, by all means wait before bringing a little pup into the household, or you may want to consider buying an adolescent puppy, 4 to 9 months old, rather than an infant one.

There are many aspects to training for a well adjusted pup and you don’t need to have a trainer. You can benefit from puppy and dog training online.

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