Last puppy was waiting for her ride in a couple days, so I used her in the meantime to make some video on taking your puppy home for the first time...
After that video, I did a quick series that culminated with a COMPLETE leash training session, from first sight of the leash, to leading at heel.
The next to the last video is a little tedious, but I didn’t want to cut it down any more because I wanted new puppy owners to see the WHOLE process from start to finish.
(I cut a few of the side videos out of it, but it really shows the whole process …WIN!)
They’re on my YouTube page but I’ll post them here.
Expectations…
The Leash’s job…
How to call an untrained puppy…
Here’s the big FIRST leash session!
Beginning to WIN!
Follow-up session, reinforcing what she learned during the breakthrough…
These steps are followed by more reinforcement and flow seamlessly into teaching “Kennel” and sitting her down, walking to the end if a check cord and teaching “Come” and then those flow into incorporating fetching and other more advanced disciplines.
They all springboard off of each other. But they all start with the leash.
I couldn’t show any of the next steps with this puppy because she needed more drilling and she was desperate to bond after these sessions, so I had to just leave her to her new owners. (Un-bonding is one of the hardest things that can happen to a pup.)
