Pug Training For Puppies

If this is your first Pug puppy, you are in for quite a treat. They are great dogs, but they need a lot of training, especially early on in their new lives in your home. It is not so much about what you have to train them to do in the early days as it is in what you have to train them not to do. You are probably reading and purchasing every book you can find on pug training right now that you can get your hands on; just make sure you read this article along with all those other books so you get your pug started out on the right track.

Like a child, the early days of a Pug’s life are where they do the bulk of their learning. However, you don’t have years to do this. In fact, you really don’t even have a year, you have only the first few months to get your Pug pointed on the straight and narrow. Any bad habits you allow them to develop in the first few months will be carried to their adult life. If your dog acts up as an adult in a manner that you allowed when they were a puppy, you will only have yourself to blame.

Proper pug training is critical because any behavior that you allow during this formidable time is behavior that they will do each and every day for the rest of their lives because they think it is okay to act that way. If you allow your cute new little Pug puppy to jump up on the sofa, he will think it is okay. All of a sudden as he gets older, he continues this behavior, you don’t find it so cute because he is too big to be on your couch. Too late, no matter how much you discipline him now, it is in his head that it is okay to act this way.

You see, puppies are like children and when they act mischievous, we tend to laugh and think they are cute and let them get away with it. As they get older, this behavior is not funny anymore and we want them to stop. Just like a spoiled child, getting them to do so is almost impossible.

The one thing that you have to keep in mind every time your new Pug does something that you think is cute when they are a puppy, you have to ask yourself the question if you are prepared to deal with that behavior for the lifespan of the animal. You allow it not, you better allow it later or you will have a spiteful Pug on your hands!

When you bring your new Pug puppy home, make sure you develop the behavior that you want to see as an adult dog when they are a puppy. Remember, they are animals and they need to be trained. They are only following your lead and anything that they learn at this young age will be burned into their brains forever as acceptable. You are not going to get to retrain them, so make sure you provide adequate pug training the first time around and you will have a great disciplined pet for many years to come.