Puppy and training, begginers mistake. - Page 1

For those of you involved with SCH and PPD training, what are the most common mistake made by newbies when handling a puppy. Recomendation and sugestion of how to not screw up a puppy are welcome. I searched the detabase but I didn't find anything on that subject. So this is for all you more experience people a chance to share your knowledge. Thanks.

Over loving the puppies, babying them to much.

Not inprinting

over exercising

not asking for help

not socializing the puppies to everything and anything

Skipping steps in training

not lettting a puppy be a puppy.

Rushing training - expecting a 12 week puppy to be a 8 month old

just some things that came to mind

EK

Good points.

Now the only thing that I have problem is over exercising. Now how much is too much? My pup gets plenny of reset (at least thats what I think), but I do take her into a woods every evening for at least a half an hour and walk around would this be concider too much? In my opinion it is not,, she gets exposure to different surface, sounds, and smells, after that I usually take her out to different stores (ex. today was homedepot). Any other sugestions?

I would not put too much formal obedience on her.  And any obedience you do do needs to be positive, never a correction for obedience while still a puppy!

Vickie

www.PowerHausKennels.com

Biggest problem we all see is people mess with the puppys too much. They tend to get hectic when messed with too much. Also way too much obedience train on young pup. Makes them dull as adult . I say let them play teach play. We only do tuig work n young pups no obedience on sport dog. Let pup mature before the heavy trainig start. We socialize pups at  training field but no hard training. With hard sport dogs not pets we train thyen put away till train again  until they are mature .

Listening to the wrong people/trainers would be a big mistake. Or worse yet, your puppy ends up in the hands of someone like Ray Jeffers.

My puppy has a walk through the forest every morning, many toys to play with and other dogs to associate with, now at 4 month he has started to chase his tail, have I done something wrong?

I have noticed that he is worse when I am around, so I am trying to keep my distance and now I walk away when the tail chasing starts.

I must have made a mistake somewhere !!!!!!

He has been well socialised and is great around other dogs and people, sits and comes when called, very obedient for a young pup.

Give him a toy take his mind away from tail chasing. For some people this worked well.

Listening to the wrong people/trainers would be a big mistake. Or worse yet, your puppy ends up in the hands of someone like Ray Jeffers.

Trio you repeat yourself.