Colby Morita's 6 Common Puppy Training Mistakes

(07-03-2012, 08:30 PM)Dani72 Wrote: I've seen many people making the sixth mistake. If only they realised that it just makes the dog more fearful and does nothing to help.

Number four was a popular way of training when I was a child. I remember many people doing this. I didn't realise that people still saw it as a good way to train. There's so much information readily available these days, that it's a mistake that no one should be making.

One mistake that isn't on the list that I see often is people putting puppies in their laps, then wondering later on, why they have a dog that jumps up at people.

I had once a dog that was trained to say please with a paw when it wanted something, but one day the paw caught the leg of an elderly lady, by accident. It wouldn't have harmed most people, but the lady had skin like tissue paper which just fell apart. Her age also meant that it didn't heal well. Now I train my dogs not to do that.

Oh dear, that's just horrible. I hope the lady is alright.

And I agree, it's definitely important to remember to research about it rather than assume you can train your dog simply with what people tell you when there's no assurance that this is the correct way.

By the way, let me just add a number 7 on this post.

7. Not teaching each and everyone in the family to follow the same set of rules when taking care of the dog.