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Nobody can ignore the energy and excitement of adding a new puppy to your family. You'll want to spend every available second with him or her - and, not just because they make you so happy, but because it takes consistent, correct training to help your puppy learn to fit in.
The first thing to know is this: when it comes to following the basic rules of living in a human home, there isn't a puppy alive that can train itself. Puppies are little beasts, not funny-shaped humans. They're going to do all the wrong things until you show them otherwise.
To put that another way: It's not the puppy's responsibility to become trained. It's your responsibility to train them in a loving way that builds a family relationship, with training methods that make sense to your little canine student. And, very importantly, you have to start right away.
You want a happy, smart, well-adjusted friend. Your puppy wants that too. If you let your puppy get away with bad behavior for a while, they'll be confused later when you suddenly start to correct them. Starting immediately is key, because just as training your puppy is habit-forming, non-training is habit-forming too.
Puppies are young, rambunctious, and impulsive - so getting super-serious with long training sessions, isn't helpful to their state of mind. It's a child. Make your puppy's training a casual part of their early life. Start simple. Do it often. Make sure they know when they got it right or wrong. Be very consistent, both with your overall reactions and with specific words. Don't scare them, hurt them, or let them get confused, because those emotions affect their ability to learn social lessons.
One more basic tenet to keep in mind: dogs follow the emotional cues given by their masters. If you want them to be confident in their training, you must be consistent and sure. Remember that they're going to make mistakes - it's a learning process. If you help your puppy believe they can be a good dog, they will learn to be a good dog as soon as possible.
Puppy training is like anything else: Fun and rewarding, so long as you quit procrastinating, and take the steps that lead to success. In the end, you'll have a bond of love and trust, which the two of you earned together, and can cherish throughout their long life.
