Course Details
Preparing for New Puppy - From Prep to Family Member AND
Building Puppy Confidence: Give Your Puppy the Gift of Optimism
Sara Brueske - Preparing for New Puppy: From Prep to Family Member
Are you bringing home a new puppy? Or have you recently brought home a new-to-you family member? This course will cover what you need to know to properly integrate your new puppy into your household.
This course is broken into four sections:
- 1. Before bringing your dog home: What you need to know
- 2. Bringing your dog home: The first 24 hours
- 3. Developing good habits: The first two weeks
- 4. Building your relationship: The first month
It’s important to have your house setup and your supplies for your new addition ready before bringing your puppy home. In this section, we will talk about what supplies are needed, what supplies aren’t really necessary and where they should be situated in your home.
The next section discusses Gotcha Day, the day you bring home your new puppy. This includes the car ride home, introducing to new family members, showing them their new house and yard as well as how to tell if your puppy is confident and happy. These first introductions are critical in building the life-long friendships that a dog can bring to your family.
The first few weeks are the most important when bringing home a new puppy. During this time, your dog is getting to know you, your family and their new routine. This is also the time when new habits are being learned, we’ll talk about how to make sure that your new puppy is learning good habits instead of problem behaviors that will need to be fixed later on.
Relationship building is an important aspect in your puppy’s life, the relationship that you build within the first month will ensure that you and your puppy will have a long-life built on trust and understanding. We will talk about socialization, basic training and the must-do’s during this time.
Julie Daniels - Building Puppy Confidence: Give Your Puppy the Gift of Optimism
Raising a puppy to do well in a human-centered world is a big challenge! And every puppy is a mix of easy and difficult traits to live with. What’s the best way to focus your puppy time to bring out the best in your life together?
We all want a puppy who is relaxed and comfortable about life with us. We want our puppy to be somewhat easy to live with, fun to train, and adaptable to new experiences as we enjoy our adventures together. That is the focus of this presentation.
In this presentation we will focus on four main categories that will open those doors for us:
- 1. Action and Movement - We’ll encourage exploration. We’ll have fun teaching our puppies to come when called! We’ll set up safe equipment and let our puppies climb and balance. We’ll foster resilience by encouraging our puppies to bounce back when they fall.
- 2. Value for Novelty - We’ll encourage curiosity and optimism. Familiar items out of place! Surprise is fun. New experiences begin at home!
- 3. Play - We’ll nurture social joy and cooperative interactions with humans and dogs. We’ll look at appropriate dog-dog play in young puppies and teenagers.
- 4. Training - We’ll teach our puppy useful life skills through fun and games.
We’ll use clickers and other markers to catch our puppies doing good things! Positive reinforcement training is empowering! It’s wonderful to bond with a puppy and build the relationship we want to share with them. This webinar will give you many good ideas! It’s a solid set of guidelines. It includes many examples and demonstrations to show you how to nurture your puppy’s confidence. A confident puppy has a calm and comfortable way of interacting with the world. And it all begins with simple games and exercises you can enjoy with your puppy at home.
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