Smallish Breed Pup Training


Exactly why dog lovers have this preconceived view that small breed puppies are more problematic to discipline than medium sized or larger dogs, I will never be able to understand. Housebreaking a puppy, in spite of its size should not be problematic.

Small dog training, is not different from training a puppy of any other bigger sized breed. Whereas training any canine will have its peculiarities, pertaining to its breed, most all other aspects remain similar, and the technique to training the dog should remain the same, regardless its size.

Never the less, I will allow myself to be corrected here, and say yes to the argument that small dog training may pose problems in two facets, (1) Aggression and (2) Puppy crate training. Even so, this is not because the fact that it is a small breed dog, but 10 times out of 10, because of the owner.

If a smallish breed puppy dog is aggressive and poses a training problem, or if a smallish breed puppy cannot be potty trained or poses obstacles in being crate trained, it is the owner who has ignorantly contributed to this situation. Let us investigate how and why.

Aggression.

Smallish dogs are preferred because they are sweet, they are like toys. Owners enjoy having their doggy sit on their laps. This specific indulgence is where the problem starts. The inherent aggressive character of the animal, is to take ownership over its domain, its food, even its master; all pups strive to be the alpha dog.

It is the ruthless streak in the canine animal that induces it to place itself on the lap of its pack leader, specially when there are a number of people sitting in the room.

This is a outright act of ruthlessness. Instead of admonishing the puppy, every owner with the exception of none, would pet the puppy, although it jumped on to their lap unbeckoned, promoting the aggressive streak in the puppy. In this way the owner has accepted the puppy's instinct to be the alpha dog.

Growling and snapping at a much bigger dog is another blatant act of aggression. To the owner, and even the people who witness it, this is viewed as cute, mainly because one dog is little while the other is larger. Most owners shower affection on the puppy instead of scolding it, when it demonstrates this aggression against a larger dog.

What is stated above are but instances as to why small size breed dogs are aggressive, and positively not because small dog training is very difficult.

Toilet Training

Owners tend to carry their small dogs around where ever they go, even while they are at home and that makes it very difficult to bathroom train them

It is, as if by second nature that the owners of smallish breed dogs to tote the animal to the spot where the dog should do its dirty business and then tote it back into the house.

It is this routine of carrying the pup to its appointed toilet area that is the start of all roadblocks. In addition, since the pup is normally carried around all the time it has no way of it indicating to or warning the owner that it has to poop.

Small dog training starts with treating the dog as any other large sized dog. They have to be transported to their toilet area on a leash. If owners stop carrying their tiny breed dogs they would be very successful in training them.

Dog crate training, is the best part of puppy training, and so it can be, even in Small Dog Training.

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