Puppies need training. An untrained puppy will grow up to be a difficult to train dog. The sooner you begin training the easier time you will have of it. Puppies, like children, learn quickly. By taking advantage of their eagerness to please, you can have your puppy well trained in no time. Puppies have short attention spans, so it can be helpful to add a treat reward to the normal praise that puppies respond well to.
While I try not to use food exclusively as a reward, I find that it is an excellent way to keep my puppy focused. It also allows me the opportunity to do training that is a bit more complex. I can place a treat on the floor and tell my puppy "leave it." By offering a second reward for leaving the first, I can introduce a more complicated formula to the training. (In this particular training, the puppy is never allowed to have the reward he is told to leave). This training method has worked well for me.
While visiting PetSmart I was trying to decide on a good training reward. There were several selections that had different benefits. I did not want larger treats, opting instead for something small that allows me to reinforce my dog with multiple rewards without making a meal out of training session. I also didn't want to go with a treat that was basically empty (like Pup Corn). One of the brands that appealed to me was Pet Botanics Training Reward. These treats are about the thickness of a human beefstick treat that has been cut into quarter inch sections. This makes it a nice nibble size for my puppy.
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