Early training and socialization
Today, many people who own puppies try to train them when they are still very young. When a puppy is about ten weeks old, it might be undergoing early training such as responding to commands like paw, sit, fetch and lie down as well as intensive play sessions and socialization. Although initiating training for a dog at its infancy has numerous benefits there must be moderation.
Dangers of Extreme Training
When I was first beginning my career as a dog trainer/behaviourist some 12 years ago I could pretty much guarantee that most dogs I saw were behaving “badly” because they were bored. Things have changed quite radically since those days and now we are seeing too much training causing the problem behaviours in certain dogs. When you teach your new puppy so many different things then he doesn’t know how to process all this information he has just learnt. If we do not give the pup rest periods, then this information does not get properly processed or filed away in the brain.
Rest and Self Reliance Matter
To avoid puppies from getting bored young owners usually keep them busy throughout the day by engaging them in high energy games. However, this approach teaches the puppy to rely solely on the owner for entertainment, preventing the puppy from both resting and becoming self-sufficient. It is important for your puppy’s world not to come crashing down every time you leave him alone by allowing him to become independent.
Let your puppy get enough rest so that his mind can file what experiences he had been having with ease. Train your puppy when he also learns that it’s okay to relax and b calm too. We don’t want over aroused play monsters who need us constantly around them.
Effective Training Strategies
True, indeed training is important but please don’t overdo it; let us go slow on our new friends. First allow your pup really understand what you mean before you raise training criteria. Let your puppy develop his own personality and let him have time to figure out what fun can be had without you. Enabling dogs to realize that sometimes they just need to play with their toys alone or participate in a few short sessions of obedience training with them will produce better results.
Play Safe and Smart
Dogs take time to learn; don’t rush it. Enabling dogs to realize that sometimes they just need to play with their toys alone or participate in a few short sessions of obedience training with them. However, do not try teaching everything at once so as not confuse the young doggy. If you do not allow your puppy enough rest, he is going to have trouble retaining the things you are trying to teach him.
Building a Well-Rounded Puppy through Relaxation and Play
Just like kids, give them free play in your house or garden with some safe objects or toys and let them explore the world without you over depending on you. That way, your puppy will grow up to be a secure dog that has confidence in itself as well as being able to remember what it has been taught. If training your puppy intensively while playing high activity adrenaline games with him leads to a stage where he keeps bothering you for attention and biting too much during play, such a situation could be improved if you took a step back from what you are trying to say and had more fun with him.
Conclusion
Spending the first weeks playing intensively while training your puppy does not make it stay good. It could create an always on dog that depends on you for everything and an unable-to-switch-off-dog also. This may leave you with a dog that simply cannot turn his mind off and suffers from anxiety or frustration about being left alone. Always maintain balance between teaching the dog and letting him learn by himself thus helping him become a properly adjusted, confident, happy member of the family.