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 First Week Puppy Training The first week home for a new puppy is a very impressionable time. And there are a few exercises that you should be doing with your new puppy during their first week home that will really help speed up the learning process. I'm going to teach you six exercises that you can do with your new puppy that will help them to become a well-behaved four-legged family member who loves to listen. Now the first thing you need to keep in mind is that puppies have tiny bellies and they also have really short attention span. So as you're working with your puppy for the first couple of weeks, keep those training sessions really short and take advantage of all the natural training opportunities that are presented to you. For us, we'll often portion out a little bit of the puppies food, whether it's their breakfast or lunch or dinner or whatever and use that for training. We know that we have a motivated dog to work for food because it's their feedin...

So the first thing we should talk about is a crate. You're definitely gonna want a crate for your puppy. It provides them with a location that they can go, they can relax, they can feel like it's a home-away-from-home, but it'll expedite your puppy house training. Now a couple of things to keep in mind when you're choosing your crate, whether you want a plastic hard-sided crate, or you might want a wire crate. The difference is would be with a hard-sided crate, there's no opportunity to put a divider in it, so you might have to create your own, which is something that we can pretty easily do. But putting a divider in the crate allows your puppy to not have too much freedom. It's nice to be able to buy a crate that they can grow into. But you don't wanna give them too many areas that they can have accidents inside the crate. So a wire crate, there usually more options for placing a pre-constructed divider in it. The other great thing about the hard-sid...