Teach Your New Puppy to be a Happy Camper When you are Away from Home

Getting a new puppy is challenging.While you are introducing him to his new home, starting potty training and puppy proofing your house there is one more critical step you want to include. "Teach your new pup how to enjoy being home alone." If you can accomplish this lesson everything else will seem to fall into place. You want your puppy to be happy alone, not terrified or anxious.

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A new cute puppy is tempting to just sit and hold he or she your every waking minute. Just know if you start out things this way and continue, you are not doing yourself or your puppy any favors. There will come a time when you have to be away from puppy. What happens then? With a little time and practice you can help your puppy to remain calm, happy and confident when he is left alone without you and family members.

First thing to realize is don't expect your puppy to go from continual cuddling and companionship to spending an 8 hour work day all by himself and "like the process."

Start on day one of puppy arrival's in small steps such as teaching he or she to be alone while you are still in the house. Use an exercise pen or crate. If you use these tools correctly, the puppy will learn and associate the pen or crate as a place to relax rather than a place of punishment. You can also limit your puppy's area using baby gates.

Help your puppy associate his confinement area with good things:

• Feed him his meals inside the confinement area.
• If the area is large enough, spend some time playing games together.
• Set aside toys that can only be found inside the confinement area. Ideally, you should choose his favorite toys to remain in the confinement area and never allow them out anywhere else.
• When you see your puppy happily entering his confinement area by himself, then you are ready to start alone-time training.

Begin alone time training:

• Close your puppy in the confinement area with a chew toy or other constructive activity. Now...quietly walk out of the room.
• Return to the room immediately and reward puppy with lavish praise and a tasty, nutritious treat.
• Repeat the above process while you slowly increase the time you are out of sight.
• Start with one or two minutes, then gradually increase this time.
• Over 3 or 4 days of the above training, you ought to be able to build up to some fairly long periods of time.
• As the time span gets longer, return quietly to check on your puppy. If you find him calm, quiet and happy, reward him again with some low key praise,like a pat on the head and "good boy" and give him another tasty, nutritious treat. Then leave again. In this phase you don't want to make a great big fuss because you don't want to reinforce the dog to miss you when you leave the room.
• If you find your puppy crying in the confinement area, you probably started this phase of training too quickly before puppy was able to associate the confinement area with it being a "good place for puppy to be." Or...you have left him alone too long and need to shorten the time periods. Don't let him out because he fusses. This will only teach him that all he has to do is whine or fuss and the door will open and he is made free. Instead, shorten the time in confinement, build slower the time he is alone.

Confinement in the exercise pen or crate or behind baby gates should only be temporary. This is a time you are trying to teach puppy to be happy alone. 

Once your dog has mastered other skills such as potty training and other rules of your house, you can start allowing him access to your home one room at a time. Never just let puppy run free all through the house on his own at this stage, or you will be teaching him, the whole house belongs to him to do just whatever he wants to do. Big mistake! Your goals in this training is to rear a dog who will be relaxed, self confident and can be trusted with more and more freedom as he grows into an adult.

During the time you leave puppy in his safe area give him constructive things to do, teaching him to entertain himself all by himself. Give him a long lasting tasty and nutritious chew treat. Give him chew toys stuffed with food such as the Kong toys. Leave some food hidden in different areas within the confinement area. Turn on a T.V. or a radio to provide puppy with some company. Radios and T.V. can cover up other sounds that may alarm the puppy such things as the garbage truck going by and picking up groceries or sirens going off. You might do some testing to find out what your dog likes. I have had dogs who would sit and actually listen to Elvis Presley songs. Maybe your dog likes classical music. Just test out different things, even children's DVD's playing may amuse your dog and keep him happy within his confinement area.

It takes time, consistency and patience to train your dog to be how you want him to be. Almost all dogs can be trained. 

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