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Setting out on your journey to learn to train a puppy needs you to be organized and take copious amounts of notes. As simple as it sounds don’t let that put you off, as it will give you something to refer back to, and will help you identify techniques that work when teaching new tricks. The information you record is an instant tips sheet of what worked for your dog, and anything that proved harder than expected. In puppy training and dog training - as in life - planning is time well spent to ensure hitting a home run rather than failing or getting it wrong. It’s just good practice.

Planning ahead is ideally where you need to begin when preparing for train a puppy, as it will help a great deal in moving your puppy to his new strange new world from his comfy and secure home with his mother. A young pup can suffer separation anxiety when parted from his family, and he finds himself in new and unfamiliar surroundings where there is nothing but unfamiliar people and strange smells.

And it’s not just puppies and young dogs. Even adult dogs are somewhat bewildered by everything new that happens to them when they get relocated. You need to be constantly reassuring your dog when you move him to a new home; he’ll just notice that his friends are gone and he doesn’t recognize anything.

If you have the time, the perfect way to get to know your new family member is to visit him before he moves in with you. So, when you get round to, training a puppy your training program will be more effective as he’s more comfortable with you from the start. If you really can’t fit in a few visits, try taking home something from the current owner that the puppy is familiar with - like maybe a piece of clothing that he’s slept on, or any other item he recognizes that will help him settle down and survive the feeling of having nothing familiar in his life.

The best time to bring a new puppy or dog into your home is any time when you’ll be able to spend a few full days at home with him. During the holidays is ideal - providing of course you’re at home and not on vacation. He’ll settle down a lot quicker if you’re there with him 24-7. You need to have at least a couple of days at home and help the newcomer get over his homesickness blues.

In the same way that we humans make preparations for a new baby, and fill the home with everything we think the baby will need for a happy and healthy start, training your puppy should be exactly the same. Having a different number of legs shouldn’t mean you get less priority.

Your new puppy’s living area should initially be a protected area perhaps in the kitchen, because this will make house training your puppy much easier too as accidents can easily be cleaned up off the tile floors of these rooms. Kitchens are great places because we spend a lot of our time in these rooms, which will make a big difference in helping your puppy get acclimatized quickly.

Before you moved your new puppy in with you, he was used to lots of playmates. Without them, he will be lonely and it will be up to you to compensate for the absence of his siblings. But don’t overdo it because you shouldn’t allow him free reign round the home for his first week or so then try to train him out of those habits once your training routine begins. Puppy potty training techniques needs to start on day 1. The day you bring him home, start his training.

It will only make it harder if you don’t control him from the off, as it will confuse him when he finally does start. The processes we use in training a puppy works in the just the same way when used with adult dogs too. All dogs can experience loneliness and separation anxiety. It’s up to you to help them through it. Your new dog will need lots of love, training and discipline as soon as he comes home with you. But the rewards are more than worth it.