Puppy Training Part 3

Avoid treat training!

It's a big mistake to rely on food treats to train your puppy.

What's wrong with "treat training"? It's based on your puppy deciding when he's hungry enough to do what you want.

Imagine your puppy running out the front door. You call him, waving a treat. But he'd rather chase a squirrel into the road than come back to munch on a treat. In addition to the obvious danger of Puppy getting hit by a car, he learns that he doesn't have to listen to you. He learns that he's in charge of what he decides to do and what he decides not to do.

Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't give ANY treats to your puppy. Treats can be great motivators, especially in teaching fun things such as tricks.

But if your training method consists of giving your puppy a treat to get him to do what you say, then you're going to find yourself in trouble when you want him to do something and he's not hungry.... or when you want him to STOP doing something and he's having too much fun to stop, regardless of the treats you're desperately flinging at him.

This sad scenario happens a lot with biscuit training. It doesn't happen at all with "Respect Training." which will be taught in our upcoming Puppy Training Part 4

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