Hi! I’m Melanie McLeroy with Taurus Training for Expert Village and we’re going to train a boxer puppy today. This is Indy. She’s about 14 weeks old and she’s just a little baby boxer. She’s a brindle boxer that’s what we refer to her coat with this multiple colors and kind of stripy look. First thing we need to teach Indy is how to pay attention. Make sure she knows her name. If the dog responds to their name then they look brilliant, no matter what else is going on. You can use their name as the way to get their attention, to stop what they’re doing, come to you, everything. So do really focus on teaching your dog to pay attention to you and to pay attention to their name. This boxer puppy is obviously a child hound. So I’m going to stand up. I’ll say her name and then the second she makes eye contact I’ll mark it. If you haven’t already, little puppy, please check out the pre-training videos on relationship in marking appropriate behavior. So I’m going to hide the treat pouch. So she’s more focused on me than it. I’ll wait till she looks away, alright Indy you’re doing too good of the job. Indy, Indy, good, very nice eye contact. Let me move around so you can see a little better. Indy, good, she’s distracted so I’ll wait till she looks away, Indy, good, she’s distracted by the crumbs. I don’t want to say it now because I’m setting her up to fail. Indy, good. I want to set this boxer puppy up to succeed if she’s very distracted especially by a crumb of food on the floor or I don’t think she’s going to pay attention I won’t say her name in the first place at all. If I do say her name and she remains distracted I don’t keep repeating the command over and over again. This little boxer puppy is pretty young. It’s going to take her a while to learn how to pay attention. If you haven’t already please check out the pre-training videos on how to give commands. Indy, good, very nice eye contact. It is very important to your puppy and for your relationship that your puppy, boxer puppy, any kind of puppy learns to pay attention that’s the precursor for all training and the foundation for a healthy relationship.
evuser14026
Aug 02, 2008
Melanie is excellent and is her videos are very intresting to watch. She personally wrote to me when I requested for some details. Very helpful.