Description
This streamed video will be available to view immediately under the ‘Video on Demand’ tab on this website after purchase (even if your purchase still says processing). This product is not a physical DVD.
To view your purchased video, login at the ‘My Account’ tab on the Dogmantics.com websites main menu before clicking on the tab ‘Self-Study Courses’. Then choose ‘Kikopup’s Guide to Puppy Training’ from the drop down menu. The video will be accessible for as long as Dogmantics.com exists.
This 4 hour and 41 minute Video on Demand goes over everything you need to know to raise and train a puppy all in one place. Over the years I have had many people asking for a course that outlines what exactly to train when. Because all puppies are different based on their personality and genetics, it does not make sense to create a course with what behaviors to train each week. Some puppies might be extremely mouthy and other puppies do not bite at all and instead are struggling with being left alone, so the initial focus of the training needs to be geared specifically to your puppy’s issues.
This course begins with what 3 things to focus on in the first 3 days you get your puppy. Besides building your relationship and trust with your puppy you want to get a head start on behaviors that will make daily life for you and your puppy easier which are how to be loose in the house, house training and initial separation training. The next part of the course covers what to train in the first 6 weeks that you have your puppy. I suggest focusing on these three categories: addressing problem behaviors, mindful socialization and puppy training essentials. The puppy training essentials section goes over skills to teach puppies how to learn as well as in depth tutorials on how to train the most important behaviors that are helpful for all dogs to know. It depends on your puppy’s issues as to which you will work on more. For example, if you have a puppy that guards toys you would be working on that more than a puppy that doesn’t guard toys at all. In fact, if the puppy showed no interest in toys instead of doing resource guarding games you could work on motivation to play with toys instead.
The final part of the course covers what you should cover in the first 3 months that you have your puppy. Here I cover more training session skills and talk about how to add criteria and build on the training done in the first six weeks. The footage comes from tutorials on my Youtube channel with new introductions and explanations as well as new unseen footage of my own puppies and clients’ puppies.
This video is downloadable without subtitles but on my website on the viewer page it will have subtitles that can be auto translated into any language.
OUTLINE of the course:
Preparing for Your Puppy
Getting started using food to train
- Taking treats nicely
- How long to train
- What treats to use
- Getting started training with a clicker or a verbal marker
Building your relationship
- Calm gentle slow interactions
The First Three Days
What to focus on first:
- The attention game
- How to be loose in the house
- Playing with your puppy – Puppy fetch
- House training
- Initial Separation training
The First 6 Weeks
What 3 categories to focus on:
- Address problem behaviors
- Mindful socialization
- Puppy training essentials
Addressing Problem Behaviors
Formula for Solving Problem Behaviors
- Teach
- Reinforce
- Interrupt
- Prevent
Suggested training plan
Mindful socialization
- Create positive socialization experiences
- Introducing your puppy to dogs in your household and other dogs
Puppy Training essentials for the first 6 weeks
Training session basics:
- Wait patiently when no information is given
- Follow a lure as a behavior
- Offer behavior
Essential behaviors to train in the first 6 weeks:
- Settle
- Attention and recall games
- Leash walking games
- Reinforcing the position
- Direction changes
- Leash pressure game
- Handling, grooming, restraint and no biting
- Stop biting moving feet, clothes and the leash
- Go to your bed/go to your crate
- Separation training
- Resource guarding prevention games
- Drop it and get it
- Leave it
The first three months
Training session skills
- Teach your puppy to listen when treats are not present
- Using the environment as reinforcement
- Asking for multiple behaviors before reinforcement
- Removing a lure and turning it into a hand signal
- Respond to just a verbal cue
Building on your training
- Example of adding criteria for the behavior of go to your bed
- Adding criteria to the recall
- Adding criteria to the leave it behavior – teaching a default leave it from food on the counters
- Default leave it from the treat bag
- Adding criteria to leash walking games
- Jumping up on guests – train the greeting as a behavior
What to expect in adolescence and adulthood
Puppy safety
The material will be accessible as long as dogmantics.com exists.
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