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E-book Title: The Puppy Prophecy
Book Description: The Essentials Of Puppy Training
The only gift that Father Time is going to give your puppy is arthritis. It serves no purpose to sit around waiting for your puppy to outgrow his problems. Although some people believe that puppies will be puppies (crazy enough to bother you, yet cute enough to remain lovable), more and more puppy training experts realize that a cheeky puppy left uncorrected often develops into a problem dog.
The Power Of Momma Dog
Although it may seem that your puppy knows relatively little, he knows from past experience with his mother that nipping, growling, jumping up uninvited, and stealing are all actions that would make his mother hot under the collar. In fact, your puppy received his first puppy training class weeks before you brought him home. His teacher, also known as 'momma-dog', was perhaps one of the most consistent, clear, and effective puppy trainers your pup will ever know.
The Power Of Your Puppy's Littermates
Other great and early influences in your puppy's life came in the form of three dozen paws. Who owned these paws? Your puppy's brothers and sisters did.
Your puppy's siblings fortified your puppy with endurance. Lord knows that it is not easy having one sister - imagine eight! Before your puppy reached six weeks of age it had become accustomed to life in a puppy group home (so to speak). Stealing, nipping, and fighting for attention were normal parts of life. Every puppy wants to be Donald Trump, but most of them end up like Martha Stewart, kinda washed up, or worse, Karen Lynn Gorney (John Travolta's twirling partner in Saturday Night Fever).
The educational point of this narrative is as follows: your puppy has already learned to to fight for what it wants. It has learned to resist resistance, and has survived life with five or more other puppies, all of whom had razor sharp teeth to help advance their dreams of "Trumpdom". Then you come along.
Puppy Training, People & Problems
Let me make a complicated topic simple. Praise your puppy when it does good and it will repeat desirable behavior. Reprimand him when he behaves inappropriately and he will quit acting like "un voyou". (I bet you wish you spoke French now).
On the topic of puppy training it may prove helpful for you to understand that puppies have a difficult time distinguishing right from wrong; at least when they are dealing with humans. Why? Because unlike your puppy's mother who was always consistent, and your puppy's siblings, who were mostly tough, you probably present yourself unlike anything your puppy has ever known.
People are not consistent, and when we are dealing with puppies we are about as tough as butter in the microwave. As far as my puppy is concerned, my first name is 'Push", and my last name is 'Over'.
Let's not forget, most puppies come from a family where all the youngsters want to be Donald Trump. On the other hand, most humans come from families that aspire to far less. Puppies are encouraged, on a inherent level to succeed, survive and rise, while we are encouraged to... well... for many of us, pay the bills on time.
Ping-Pong Puppy Training
Aside from our being too sentimental about puppy training, another obstacle that interferes with normal puppy development is our ability to play ping-pong with a puppy's mind. What do I mean by ping-pong? I am referring to our tendency to praise and punish our puppies for the same thing.
How do you greet your puppy after a hard day at work? Let me guess: hug-kiss-pat-pat; and you probably even let your puppy jump on you a little. Hummmm, lets examine this method of greeting a little more closely.
First, understand that when you praise your puppy, you praise it for what it is doing 'then and there'. If you walk into your house and start to hug and kiss your puppy, your puppy will think that your hugs and kisses are rewards for what it is doing. Although you may think your puppy is showing love, and therefore you are rewarding it for loving you, your puppy may be acting out for a number of reasons, one of which is that it hated being alone and it is having a fit because you have just saved it from its isolation. The key word in the last sentence is "fit". That is what your puppy may be having when you first come home, and that is what you are rewarding it for when you 'hug-kiss-pat-pat'
But wait, just when you start to see the light and realize that you may be contributing to your puppy's delinquency, the story gets worse. The simple fact that you may be rewarding your puppy's fits is bad, just bad,
but if you are also trying to punish your puppy when it has fits in other areas of life, well... that's terrible!
What do you do when your puppy has a fit on a child?
How about when it has a fit in the middle of the night? How about a fit on a leash, or a freak out in the bathtub? All of these fits could result from your rewarding your puppy for rewarding your puppy's hysteria every time you greet it. A simple rule, one that makes this long homepage well worth reading: be consistent. Try to identify situation in which you may be sending mixed messages, and avoid rewarding and punishing your puppy for the same thing.More... | 
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