Why You’re Struggling to Train Your Puppy

Professional Dog Trainer and Behavioral Specialist, Doggy Dan, has created a tutorial called, The Missing Link: Why You’re Struggling to Train Your Pup and How a Comprehensive Dog Training Program Can Help. We’ll go over some of his top tips in this article, but please feel free to access his blog post for free:

Puppy Behaving Badly?

Just like humans, puppies can have a variety of behavior issues such as:

Peeing indoors.
Destructive behaviors due to stress/separation anxiety.
Biting, growling, and showing aggression.
Excessive barking.
Jumping, pulling on the leash, not coming when called.
And SO much more! These sorts of behaviors can take the joy out of owning a dog and might even make you question why you got a puppy to begin with!

Two Biggest Puppy Training Mistakes

Mistake #1. Mixing different dog training methods. I bet you’ve already spent time searching the internet for resources to help your puppy overcome whatever behavioral challenge they (and you!) are experiencing.

There are many wonderful dog training programs out there. And most, fortunately, use kind, gentle methods. However, when you start mixing dog training methods, things can quickly become CONFUSING FOR YOUR PUPPY.

If you want your puppy to understand how you want them to behave, you have to be consistent in the methods you use, the commands you use and your reaction to things.

Mistake #2. Using harsh, expensive and harmful training products. Usually it’s exhaustion and frustration that leads people to turn to harsh training products such as electric shock collars, choke chains, electric fences and other harmful tools.

Harsh training products often cause more problems in the long run like anxiety and aggression.

The only thing they accomplish is creating fear in your dog. For more information about dog shock collars, read Doggy Dan’s article, Why Dog Shock Collars Are a Totally Unnecessary (and Destructive) Training Tool.

For much more detailed information about why you’re struggling to train your puppy, please read Doggy Dan’s blog post:

Puppy Training Doesn’t Have to Be a Struggle

The best way to train your puppy to listen to you when it matters most is by using a comprehensive, calm and gentle training program.

Pick ONE complete training program that covers all puppy training issues and stick with it.

I suggest watching Doggy Dan’s video where he’ll tell you about his complete training program called, The Complete Pack. This includes access to six of Doggy Dan’s most powerful training programs:
The Dog Calming Code
Everyday Tools and Techniques
Project Moses (my favorite!)
Perfect Puppy Program
Dan’s Dog Training 101
All Dog Problems Solved
The Forum Doggy Dan offers a three-day, $1 Trial of The Complete Pack.

Who is Doggy Dan?

Doggy Dan is a Professional Dog Trainer and Behavioral Specialist. He’s famous for the “5 Golden Rules” of dog training. My favorite part of Doggy Dan’s online dog training website, TheOnlineDogTrainer.com is “Project Moses.” That’s little Moses in the picture with Doggy Dan.

Doggy Dan adopted Moses at 6 or 8 weeks old, and recorded on video every step of Moses’ training for a full year. And you get to watch it all on his website!

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Thank you for visiting my website. I hope Doggy Dan’s tutorials and puppy training programs help you with training your puppy!

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