YNP #016: Stop Behaviors Before They Start! How Thinking Ahead Can Make Training Easier.
Your New Puppy: Dog Training and Dog Behavior Lessons to Help You Turn Your New Puppy into a Well-Behaved Dog
Debbie Cilento: Dog Trainer | Dog Behavior Consultant | Owner of Playtime Paws | Belly Rub Specialist
4.8 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2017
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” – Benjamin Franklin
The best way to stop your dog from jumping up on people is not to allow him from to do it from day one.
The best way to stop your dog from sleeping on the bed with you is to teach him to sleep in his own bed from day one.
I know, it sounds so simple. When your dog is a puppy it’s easy to let him jump because at that point it’s cute, not annoying. And right now he doesn’t take up that much room in the bed.
It is so easy to let certain behaviors happen when they are small and cute but we end up having to fix bad habits later
In this Episode, I talk about using preventive training and house rules to think ahead and make training easier.
Biggest takeaway
Ask yourself and your family the following questions and start enforcing the house rules from day one.
Will this behavior be appropriate in the future?
Will this behavior be appropriate when our puppy is full grown?
Will this behavior be appropriate with small children, grandma, guests, etc?
It can be tough to enforce these rules when all you want to do is play and snuggle and give your puppy whatever they want, but I promise you, your family AND your puppy will thank you for it.
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
Episode #008: When your Dog Jumps: How to Prevent and Correct Jumping up on People
Photo by Tim Trad on Unsplash
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to your new puppies podcast. Starting you and your dog off on the right paw. Here's your |
| 0:16.8 | host Debbie Salento. Hello and you're listening to episode 16 of your new puppy's podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | Today we're going to talk about preventative training and how it can be your best tool |
| 0:42.3 | when you bring a new puppy home. |
| 0:45.0 | So it was Benjamin Franklin who said an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. |
| 0:50.8 | And this is so true when you bring home a new puppy. I think we can all agree that |
| 0:57.8 | it's easier for a behavior to just never start than have to correct it later. |
| 1:03.5 | So this episode is going to be more big picture. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm going to talk about the concept of preventative training. |
| 1:09.6 | Give some examples, and then hopefully you can take those, that idea and bring it to your own |
| 1:16.1 | household and your puppy. So what exactly is preventative training? In the |
| 1:20.9 | simplest terms it's stopping a behavior before it even starts. |
| 1:26.5 | This isn't full proof by any means, but hopefully we can minimize the behaviors we may have to work on later or manage later. |
| 1:37.0 | Okay, so what do I mean? |
| 1:38.0 | What do you mean you stop a behavior before it starts? |
| 1:40.4 | So I touched a little bit on this in episode 8 when I talked about how to get your dog to stop jumping. |
| 1:46.0 | If the day we bring our puppy home and we're super diligent and we never ever let them jump up, |
| 1:52.0 | or we don't give them the attention when they jump up, |
| 1:54.8 | then it's something that they'll never think to do once they're an adult. |
| 1:58.6 | Now this is easier said than done. I know because jumping like most behaviors is easy to kind of let it go when they're small and they're cute and all we want to do is hold them and they're new. |
| 2:13.2 | But once they grow up, once they're bigger, once a small child comes over or grandma comes over, |
| 2:21.5 | this now dog isn't going to know the difference and they're |
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