Hey, Don't touch, eat, or pee on that!**

• Potty Training

• Crate Training and playpen - home alone training; sleeping through the night, extinguishing distress vocalization.

• Furniture Rules-are you ON or are you OFF? Tethering - Safety first, I can't catch my puppy!

• Chewing - toy training (entertaining self/settling down).

• The Blink Factor – never let your pup run free in the house.

Relaxed Puppy - I can settle on my own and dont mind being on my own

• Food puzzle toys

• Games

• Chewies

• Mental & Physical Challenges for a smart, happy tired puppy

• I can entertain myself and am ok being alone

OUCH! Hey that hurts! Don't do that!

•Soft Mouth before 12 weeks!

•Play time with pup - schedule time for play and practice Mouthing during play - use toy exercise for teaching proper play with feedback for illegal bites.

•Hand feeding meals and treats - Taking food and items gingerly (self control)

•Feedback for hard bites – “Time Outs” and verbal feedback, etc.

•Taking things only on request

I CAN be friendly with You, Your Friends, the Vet and the Groomer

•Aggression Prevention and Handling is
•Object exchanges (aggression prevention)
•Food bowl
•People items - kleenex, underwear,
•Handling – examining, vet visit,
•Different positions- you will have to remove a flea, tick or burr from your dogs body one day...learn how to do it stress free!
•Food around other dogs - dog/dog aggression prevention

I Like surprises, new people and new adventures!

•Socialization — I am confident in my surrounding=
•People
•Sounds
•Sights
•On leash
•Outside walks (when possible)
•I have good manners and can say Please and thank you

Basic Training Impulse Control — I can wait for the things I want

•Teach me what I should not touch.
•I wont run from you if you need to catch me.
•Give/drop it
•Waiting for what I want – (food, toys, attention, access, release…)
•Don’t touch (management-do not give puppy access to the things you do not want him to have)