How to Calm an Excited Puppy

Learning to correctly calm an excited puppy is the first stage of dog training. A puppy needs to learn when to listen to its owner for safety and good manners. Calming a puppy is easy to do and should be done prior to any training session.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Puppy
• Dog Collar

Calming a Puppy

1. Approach the puppy from the front.

2. Coral the puppy with your body if not on a leash. If the dog is wearing a collar, take a firm hold of it.

3. Speak to the puppy in calm tones as you put it in front of your body.

4. Kneel down behind the puppy, place the dog's body between your legs.

5. Force the dog into a sitting position between your legs, remain kneeling behind the dog.

6. Holding on to the dog's collar, rub it's chest while using soothing and calm tones.

7. Keep the dog between your legs in a kneeling position behind it until the dog calms down completely. The puppy's breathing should slow slightly and it may lay down.

Tips & Warnings

• Calming a puppy is important for the puppy's safety. Puppies get so excited sometimes that they lose track of where they are in the home or yard. Outside an excited puppy may run into the street without even noticing they are out of the yard. For this reason, puppies should always where a collar when outside. For even more security, leash a puppy that is known to get overly excited when outside.

Resources

• DogsRuleIowa
• Puppy Websites