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Star Puppy Camp - Canine child
14 - 20 weeks -
Time to explore and challenge the world while learning proper manners and age appropriate play rewards and consequences. This is a crucial period for training, when all the basic obedience skills are taught and will be remembered for the rest of your dog's life. Early age appropriate training will ensure success and prevent potential behavior problems in the future.
House Training
- Crate Training Goal– to sleep in a crate thru the night for up to 6-7 hours
- Potty Training Goal– to hold their restroom for 3-4 hours during the day without an accident
- Chew Training Goal– to respond to the word “no” when chewing something wrong
- Bite Trained Goal– to never bite on hands
- Jump Trained Goal– to rarely jump up and if they do, respond quickly to “off”
Obedience Training
- “Sit” Goals– to go into a “sit” with a verbal command hand command only
- “Stay“Goals – to “stay” for a duration of 20 seconds from a distance of 20 feet
- “Down” Goals– to go “down” with verbal command only, and also a combination of a verbal/ hand command
- “Come” Goals– to respond to a “come” command quickly and willingly
- “Off“Goals– to rarely ever jump up and if they do, respond quickly to “off”
- Stair Trained Goals– to go up and down stairs at a faster pace
- “Place“Goals– they will be able to understand that the word “place” means to go to the dog cot and to RELAX and stay for up to a minimum 30 seconds, but linger with most puppies.
- Self control on entrance and exit thresholds, ie doorways, waiting before getting and out of the car, etc
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Socialization Training
- Stranger Trained Goals– Frequent field trips take place so the pup learns to be around different people in different places. At this point, they are used to a variety of people and easily adjust to others.
- Child Trained Goals– Each pup continues to be introduced to children in public and privately.
- Vet Trained Goals– continue with their vet visits.
- Noise Trained Goals– Pups are consistently surrounded by noises from typical household items as well as typical public place noises
- Grooming Trained Goals– To be used to getting a bath and being groomed without great complaint, including the nail trims.
Outside Training
- Car Trained Goals– to have them not get car sick and feel more comfortable riding.
- Thunderstorm Trained Goals– to train them with CD’s and TV to get used to thunderstorms.
