How Can Puggle Training Help in Overcoming Behavior Issues
Soon after the arrival home of your precious Puggle, you are in a tit-for-tat battle to stop it from hogging the furniture, stop it from pestering you to pet or play with it, and a host of other antics that weren’t there before. Indeed, the indicator is when there’s no denying your dog needs puggle training!
Worse, your puggle is into what most owners call exclusive “Puggle things,” such as taking off with things from around the house and chewing on them.
But the last thing to do is to ask and wonder whatever happened to the dog you used to know. It is still very much “there,” with all its wonderful bloodline traits, talents, skills, etc. But you need to do your share; use Puggle training to help the dog’s personality to shape up and help it to be the family pet it is capable of being. The first thing you need to do is to bring the dog to the level where everybody in your house (including you) makes decisions and act, and it would be at the level of “nothing in life is free.”
“Nothing In Life Is Free (NILIF)” is far from a cure-all to rid your dog of a nagging behavior problem. It is simply a canine attitude in living in a home that encourages a better behavior. It is supported by the ideas that the dog trusts and accepts you as leader, and accepts its participative role in the family.
Before you inculcate NILIF, begin first with some positive reinforcement strategies that will teach your dogs a few useful commands or tricks, i.e., sit, stay, down. When your dog has a solid understanding of these requests, start NILIF. Here, it can be seen that if the dog is to have something it needs or wants (a food, a walk, a belly rub), it needs to do first a command, or it needs to be in a certain condition first so that you can start attending to the dog.
This means that before you put the leash on your dog, it needs to be calmly sitting down. Before you give your dog food, it needs to lie down and stay until the dog bowl is down. In order for it to play fetch, it needs to shake hands with you each time you throw the toy.
It’s much like showing that life is a give and take. Once you’ve given the command, wait for it to do as requested, before you give what your dog is pleading or begging for. If your dog refuses to follow, then delay the dog walk or the belly rub, come back a few moments later, and just keep on being patient and understanding.
Before we end, let’s turn to a common Puggle training method for helping a dog overcome its food-stealing ways. One interesting and effective gadget you can use is a motion sensing pad. Bring it near the counter or table, and leave some food on top. If your dog dares step on the pad to get to the food, it will hear an ear-splitting alarm it will remember well enough to keep it away from tables with food!
