Early education at the School of Puppies
She is in kindergarten children. Through early education focused on the game, all the puppies learn to integrate into human society and their masters exerted to understand and direct them. Concepts that are revolutionizing the teaching totally dog it is no longer the man who forces the animal to get to his level, it is he who goes at it. The school aims to raise the puppy, to open the mind, teaching him to bear the stress he encounters in his life in the midst of humans to correctly answer a few simple commands and have fun with his master.
Imagine a child who would go to class at the age of 18 or 20 years, having never learned to read or write … That is exactly what happens with dogs that refused to accept the Education clubs, the vast majority at the age of 1 year or rarely 6 months. I created this concept which is now based in several countries. The role of Dog Training Clubs under the control of the Canine Central Company is to give the puppy a start in life and correct information to the master, in order to understand and navigate. We know that over 99% of dogs are devoted to the role of pet dogs adapted to the city.
Why is education so young?
The most important period for the storage bases for learning and for setting up a “temperament” is understood in general, between 3 weeks and 6 months. The teacher who takes a dog becomes for him, both his mother, his father, his pack leader, and his clan. The dog, like all mammals reared by a group, will learn how to live in a habitat and how to correspond with group members or those of other groups. Some say that the puppy naturally wants to please his master, in fact it is like the little child that tests its environment, the teacher is there to encourage or to correct a particular behavior. We can make a future dog well educated, sociable and affectionate, discreet if necessary. It can also transform into a monster: destructive, barking, biting, asocial, etc..
What can the puppy’s school teacher?
The main problem of coexistence between the puppy and his master is especially novice level of communication, at school it will learn what is the relationship between humans and dogs the most effective, how to communicate with him, instead of the puppy in the house, how to improve social behavior, what is a healthy hierarchy to enforce without brutality, basic education unconstrained by natural methods, basic care and grooming for good health Puppy, gesture citizen in town to not only the puppy is a nuisance to passersby and does not stain the sidewalks, how to react when the inappropriate behavior, control of dogs in any circumstances …
Ages
We are not talking about race because they are all on an equal footing at this age, it is nevertheless desirable to split the pups in two age categories to avoid pushing too manly. So we divide:
- 1st class: up to 4 months
- 2nd class: 4 to 6 months
The exercises to be charged
As it is well prepared to live with the puppy and his master in its environment, we note a few years mainly:
1 – Sociability:
- By playing free puppies are still working their canine language, they began to learn with their mother, their brothers and sisters. They continue their infiltration of the species.
- Sociability with strangers is even more important and it is interesting to introduce one of the puppies, of various categories of people: Adults (men and women), older children, infants (beware of overzealous with claws and licking).
- You can also have fun dressing up some of them with uniform, helmet, blouse, carnival mask, etc.. In any case the future dog should fear any particular human.
2 – The hierarchy
It will be to prepare the puppy to consider its master like a pack leader and not as an equal. Simply engaging in these few gentle exercises to fix the problem once and for all.
- The gentle handling.
They contribute to the hierarchy and to socialization. They prepare dogs and contacts to bear without complaint handling, from: a veterinarian (no need to muzzle), a judge exposure or work, a groomer, a child the street, etc.. we take the puppies one by one to avoid distractions. Is lifted in the arms. Handing it to another teacher who passes it to the next. We examine teeth, ears, raise the tail as if to take the temperature.
It is placed on the table to handle for the brush.
- The bowl
A puppy character will tend to react as he did with his brothers and sisters, by forbidding anyone to approach a human or animal when eating. We put a few biscuits or food as usual the teacher will take care to make in the bowl. We let the puppy enter his meal and asked the teacher to put his hands inside. If he growls or attempts to bite, the teacher must take by the scruff of the neck with a “no” strong, firmly but gently. It is a fairly simple ways to ensure fast and definitely have a dog throughout his life hierarchical (experience has proved that hundreds of dogs).
- Keep on the back
Puppies to aggressive tendencies must be returned on the back and kept for a few seconds, even accepting that the master rides.
3 – Stress resistance
The puppy needs to make major acquisitions with respect to “sensory homeostasis”, that is to say, the balance between the environment and himself. It must withstand the stimulation of the human environment with its smells, sounds of the city, its movements, different soils … This learning must be done as soon as possible before the age of 3 months must have been confronted in stimulation it will in adulthood, if he does not pay later. I used the puppy to school my experience to training future guide dogs for the blind, dogs for disabled dogs disaster.
It provides visual stimulation as the corridor where they must pass from which hang streamers, foam tubes, plastic bottles, etc.. Acoustic stimuli with various noises and sounds CD.
Tactile stimuli as different soils, and moving obstacles which they can move.
Olfactory stimuli consist of boxes that contain odors bones, fish, herbs, etc.. They may be attracted by them but can not be accessed by cons they may have the tiny tidbit is that his master, resulting in a trivialization of attractive odors. Later it will be useful not to scan for strong scents (fox dung, for example), when walking in the forest.
4 – Obedience
In no case shall be binding, it must be based primarily on the game and the pleasure he feels at runtime. A dog is a real player gold mine for the teacher who wants to instill an education, provided to proceed methodically. It’s organized distraction: the ball game, toy or treat is a powerful magnet that serves to properly orient behaviors, with the main principles of my natural methods.
- Reminder :
It will make gains that go with growing difficulties, for example:
- The puppy is kept by the monitor, the master called to order by showing what he has in hand.
- The puppy must not monitor, master’s call, and showing what he has in hand.
- The puppy is required, the master calls and disappears from his sight (Cache)
In this exercise should be varied situations and you can ask the teacher to lie down, sit on a chair. At each arrival, of course, the puppy receives the candy or the object of the game and congratulated by his master.
- Walking the walk :
It does not use a leash, it is superfluous since the master has in his hand what attract his pupil. At first he often rewards every few steps, then less and less. Subsequently, we move to the heeling with distractions.
- Positions :
He will learn positions, Sitting, Laying, Standing, in order, with the help of the object of the game or the treat that fits in your hand. In the air to sit on the ground to the bed, on the side to the upright.
And the signals it will retain both acoustic and visual, which will later be ordered from a distance.
The positions will run off at the teacher before the puppy at his side, but also in motion when walking or on the table, with or without this distraction.
The city
Let us not forget that these dogs prepare well educated for the city, yet many fail to master this important point. The instructors of the club at heart will therefore organize occasional trips in small groups in town (this time the puppies are flexible leash), teachers are provided with their toy or treat to learn to deflect attention in stressful situations, or can be obeyed despite distractions.
A puppy that has had the opportunity to attend the School of the puppy, equivalent to our kindergarten, has every chance to integrate the life of his master and that of our society under the best conditions. This is the best prevention against bad behavior!