Comments for Puppy Training Watch Me at http://dogclassonline.com , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://dogclassonline.com Wed, 22 May 2013 13:28:00 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://dogclassonline.com/puppy-training-week-1-/puppy-training-watch-me.html#comment-50 Andrew, I am happy to see that your dog will work for carrots and milk bones. Yes, those treats I suggested are very high powered treats and in an environment like your house, you may not need to give those treats when training. I highly recommend, however, that you do bring treats like cheese, hot dogs, chicken, etc. when you begin to train behaviors in distracting environments like your front yard, parks, obedience classes, Petsmart, etc. In these environments, your dog is more likely to blow off training for whatever exciting thing they may see like other dogs or children. The high powered treats give you some arsenal and a leg up to make yourself exciting. As far as size, I recommend bite size treats, like the size of a raisin. If the puppy is small, I will often give them only half of that raisin sized treat per repetition. My dogs are 40 and 50 lbs and in one training session with one dog, I use no more than a fourth of a hot dog. I usually cut the turkey dog in half length wise and then cut both of those halves into small slivers. With a puppy, I would probably give her a couple of pieces and then see over the next 24 hours how she does. If she gets sick, then you know that particular treat is too rich. Also, using soft treats will work better for you than hard treats because if they crunch down on the treat and crumbs go on the floor then you will have to wait for your puppy to pick up the crumbs before you can work another repetition of the behavior you're training. Whatever small amount of these high powered treats you can use, the better. They only need a taste, definitely not an entire hot dog per training session! Hope this helps, exact amounts are hard to define when it comes to treats, just everything in moderation! - Carrie Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:58:41 +0100 http://dogclassonline.com/puppy-training-week-1-/puppy-training-watch-me.html#comment-49 Our puppy is only 11 weeks (about 12-15 lbs) and I have taught her to sit and stay so far which has come in handy as we have two cats in the house... I just stumbled across your website today and some of the practices look really promising. :) My main concern is feeding her too many treats, and the type of treats... so far I have been using carrots since she likes them (go figure) and simple milk bones but no more then three small milk bones a day and that has been breaking them up and giving them too her in little pieces during training. And then I was worried about over feeding them to her… You say to give the dog Cheeses, hot dogs... and I’m sure she will be much more attentive with those but how much should we give her before we run the risk of making her stomach upset, and or diarrhea? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you, Andrew - Andrew Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:25:19 +0100