Preparing Your Home for Your New Puppy

At the beginning, you have to take care of your puppy's sleeping spot. If you use crates and playpens, your dog will grow up healthy and happy in your home and practice their routine as well. If you were planning on doing free-play and letting your puppy sleep in your bed, take a few minutes to learn about why choosing a playpen and a crate was a good idea! 

As a new pet owner, you want to give your puppy the best home experience and make them happier. Make sure you have these points to remember before you go free-roaming or buying a huge crate. 

Small Spaces

Puppy loves tiny rooms. Most dogs seek the warmth and protection of their pack, and they like to sleep in dens. However, you can never buy a cage your dog can hardly fit into. Your puppy should be able to stand, go all over, and sit down on the top or sides of their crate. Dogs and puppies don't want to litter where they sleep, but using a cage is a great way to cut down on potential potty spots.

Puppy Toys

Before giving your new puppy a stuffed toy, their water dish, water, and any other goodies you might think of, let them rest as well.  Put the dog in their bed and get them used to the habit of staying there. In quiet and in privacy, place your puppy's crate in a peaceful, familiar place that is out of the public eye, and where your puppy can really relax. 

Teething toys will keep your dog occupied as you do household tasks. Spacious enough space is needed in the playpen for your growing puppy. These toys are perfect for your dog to gnaw and rub. Chewing or licking will soothe your puppy when they are stressed. It makes calm them down while they are home.  

Potty Pads

Toilet seats, although potty pads can slow down potty training, they are a useful. The training pads should be placed in a particular location of the playpen, rather than surrounding the whole thing. Marking territory will help the dog go potty. However, if your puppy is young (under 12 week old) and not very effective at using pads, cover the whole playpen area to prevent spills from landing on your ground! When your pup gets older, remove any of the paws, if necessary. We suggest, though, that you adhere to your puppy's routine by taking your puppy outside to potty as soon as possible!

Leaving Your Puppies for the First Time

If you need to leave your puppy for more than four hours, you might consider keeping it in the playpen crated for the first few weeks. Giving the dog their assigned place for sleeping and potty time is a two for one when it comes to exercise. Often, put water down for the duration of your absence just do not let them drink it all. Hint: Bear in mind, before you leave your puppy alone, take some time to see whether they try to tear off pads or not. If your dog does this, you'll want to get rid of the pee pads entirely. Instead, secure the floors and carpets from slippage and wear or wall-or floor or rug,

How to Teach a Dog to Twirl and Spin

Spin, unlike many other seemingly basic tricks, does not need precise timing or sophisticated abilities such as shaping or catching. In reality, the dog needs a brief instruction in “luring” to learn how to spin.

Making an Attractive Lure

Luring is one of the most prevalent techniques of persuading dogs to perform different actions, whether it's for obedience-based instructions like sit and stay or entertaining tricks like roll over and wave. Because enticing does not cause fear or discomfort, it helps dogs to learn and perform activities more rapidly and consistently in the future. Because the dogs must complete the motions rather than being guided into various postures, they are more likely to associate the activity with the order.

Luring entails enticing your dog into various postures using a reward or toy, similar to how a carrot is used to coax a horse into its stall. While the premise is straightforward, making a successful lure requires some understanding and skill.

Maintain Your Dog's Interest

Pulling your dog along by the nose with a high-value reward that they desire to follow is the ideal bait. To begin, select a treat or toy that your dog is particularly enthusiastic about. The second technique to keep your dog engaged is to keep your lures brief and often reward your dog by giving them a treat or allowing them to play with the toy. This not only prevents your dog from thinking you're playing a joke on them, but it also encourages them to continue training. While an appealing lure is important, you don't want your dog to grow overly reliant on it.

How to Get Rid of a Lure

The first step in properly eliminating your lure from a new habit is to determine the best moment to do it. When your dog appears to be expecting the activity, it's time to start eliminating the bait.

How to Fade a Lure

Running through the entire lure may be quicker, but it will help diminish your dog's demand for the lure. You might also try removing the lure's end and allowing your dog to finish the act on their own. Stopping everything at once is the greatest way to lessen the pull.

Teach Your Dog How to Twirl and Spin

Step 1: Decide on a course of action. The first habit we'll teach is what we'll refer to as "spin."

Step 2: Make a large circle with your dog. Take your delectable treat (or toy) and hold it squarely in front of your dog's nose as he stands in front of you.

Step 3: Turn your bait into a hand cue by fading it in and out. You may use any of the lure fading strategies listed above, but speeding up your lure usually works best for this trick.

Step 4: Include a verbal cue. You're ready to label this behavior once your dog has performed a few reps with just the hand cue.

Step 5: Allow time for your dog to perfect the habit. You'll need to allow your dog a few days to learn the spin behavior once they've mastered it with only a basic hand and vocal signal.

Step 6: Reverse the behavior and teach it again. To train your dog to twirl, repeat the instructions above, but this time leads him in a counterclockwise circle.

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