Small Breed Dog Toilet Training
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Precisely why puppy lovers have got this unfounded belief that small dogs are more challenging to condition when compared to medium sized or large breed puppies, I will never be able to comprehend. Small dog training should not be problematic.
Small dog training, is in no way different from training a dog of any other bigger sized breed. Whereas training any canine could have its peculiarities, pertaining to its breed, invariably all other features continue being identical, and the method used to train the dog should not be different, not withstanding its size.
Having said that, I will grant an allowance and accept the argument that small dog training could possibly offer problems in two aspects, (1) Aggression and (2) Puppy Crate Training. However, this is not because the fact that it is a small breed dog, but ten times out of ten, because of the owner.
If a small breed pup is aggressive and cannot be disciplined, or if a tiny breed puppy cannot be potty trained or poses obstacles in being bathroom trained, it is the owner who has unknowingly contributed to this situation. Let us analyze how and why.
Aggression.
Small dogs are liked because they are cute, they are like playthings. Owners delight in having their pet sit on their laps. This specific indulgence is where the difficulty commences. The innate aggressive trait of the dog, is to assert ownership over its space, its food, even its trainer; all dogs desire to be the alpha dog.
It is the hostile streak in the pup that provokes it to get on to the lap of its master, particularly when there are a number of individuals present in the room.
This is a outright act of aggression. Instead of reprimanding the dog, every owner bar none, would pet the pooch, although it jumped on to their lap unbeckoned, developing the aggressive streak in the pup. Therefore the owner has given into the pup’s inherent need to be the alpha dog.
Growling and getting angry at a much bigger dog is another outright act of hostility. To the owner, and even the people who witness it, this is looked on as cute, because one dog is very small while the other is bigger. Most owners praise the puppy instead of scolding it, when it demonstrates this aggression with a larger dog.
The above mentioned are but examples as to why small size breed pups are aggressive, and definitely not because small dog training is complicated.
Toilet Training
Owners have a propensity to carry their small puppies around no matter where they go, even at home and that renders it impossible to toilet train them
It is, as if by instinct that the owners of smallish breed dogs to tote the animal to the area where the pooch should eliminate itself and then lug it back into the house.
It is this practice of carrying the pooch to the outdoors to poop that is the start of all dilemmas. In addition, as the pup is by and large carried around all the time it has no way of it suggesting to or notifying the owner that it has to go to the bathroom.
We just cannot ignore the simple fact that small dog training begins with treating the dog as any other medium sized or larger sized dog. They have to be taken to their bathroom area on a leash. If owners stop carrying their tiny breed dogs they would have no problems in training them.
Dog crate training, is the best part of dog training, and so it can be also in the event of Small Dog Training.
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May 12 2010