Instructional Material Produced By Florida K-9 Services, Inc.

Looking for Puppy Trainers or Dog Obedience Training in Florida? We are Florida K9 Services the original professional Puppy and Dog Training company for the past 22 years. Puppies need lots of behavior training especially when they are young. They need gentle guidance to deter habits such as jumping, chewing, biting, housebreaking, digging, excessive barking, and basically breaking the owners 'house rules' from forming.

Once reaching the age of at least six months old they then need to be taught on and off lead professional obedience training. Thats where we come in again with our All Breed Obedience Boot Camp.

PUPPY TRAINING INSTRUCTION PROGRAM

At Florida K9 Services we DO NOT obedience train dogs until they are a minimum of 6 months old. The input of excessive information and correction into a puppy at too early an age can and cause serious problems later.

We like for a puppy to have the chance to be a puppy ! However, we believe in behavioral corrections earlier than 6 months. The following information is currently free to the public. Please realize these suggestions are general techniques and are not necessarily precise for all breeds of dogs.

Also, please be aware that we offer FREE puppy instructional problem solving training to puppy owners once they pre-register in advance for their puppy to later attend our All Breed Obedience Boot Camp.

At the bottom of each page in this series you will find links to Food Drive Training, Housebreaking, and Voice Command Inflections but it is important to read the following first

Several categories are covered here including Housebreaking, Controlled Feeding, Commands and Corrections, Socialization, and other discipline.

We do not believe in obedience training of dogs under the age of 6 months. We also do not believe in hitting, holding down, or excessive physical force with dogs. We do not use pinch collars, electric shock devices, or food drive training. All training is done with praise reward and self esteem enhancement.

Our primary business is raising confident, courageous, and stable working dogs. Our methods may seem weak to some, however one cannot find animals more convinced that they are winners, than our dogs and the dogs we train. Feel free to download the information supplied here. The key is to follow the instructions exactly as written, and BE CONSISTENT.

When your dog  reaches 6 months old and you need obedience training or temperament testing for your dog,  please call on click on our training division. Good Luck !!

FKS Puppy Orientation Instruction

As  frequent owners of puppies, we would like to offer some suggestions to help make life just a little easier. These remarks are not necessarily from text books, but come from our experiences in raising, controlling, and basically living with puppies just like yours. Typically we are raising a puppy with all the habits and instincts as your puppy.

As you know all puppies raised by us are brought up to have the stability and self confidence to become a working dog. This information should be integrated with the instructions given you by our trainers once you are a client. These comments are based on years of success in raising working dogs.

1. Cutting Back On Puppy Chewing of Ankles and Other Body Parts

Puppies have a very difficult time knowing when play time ends and quite time begins. We don't make a practice of playing tug of war, or hand biting games with young puppies. They have an abundance of energy and can usually sustain such play longer than we care to participate. Puppies don't understand since we haven't bonded all day during work time, or all night, we just don't find it necessary to bite each other when we first meet. Puppies show allot of affection by biting and pulling on their loved ones. Don't suppose that if only one member of the family plays rough with the puppy that the puppy will not see fit to play rough, at his will, with the other members. Rough play with the puppy is not going to turn him into a more protective puppy.

Have quiet times with the puppy. Stroke his head and speak in soft tones, Scratch his chest and belly. You can never show too much love to a puppy. Often people say they don't want to spoil the puppy. We don't want you to spoil the puppy either. But, too much love to any animal is certainly not spoiling. It's all in the bonding process.

2. Learning The Word 'NO'

First, the puppy should never receive correction or disciplines from children under age sixteen. Any corrections should be done with an authoritative voice, and IT MUST BE CONSISTENT. Lack of consistency is the number one reason why people have trouble with discipline. When the puppy is chewing on furniture, shoes, feet, ankles, etc., pull him away gently while saying 'NO' then give him one of his toys. Don't throw the toy for him to go get, just simply give him a toy in his mouth. Make certain you don't shove the toy at him making him intimidated.

3- Crying At Night

Put his kennel in your room so he can see you, for a few nights. After he stops crying while in your room for two or three nights, you can probably move his kennel to another room.

4- Socialization

Don't let your puppy meet an abundance of strangers. Everyone wants to pet a cute puppy. Over socialization of your puppy can, later in life, lead to jumping on strangers, and over friendliness with everyone.

5. Leaving Puppy Alone

Often we have clients contact us to ask why their puppy goes into a frenzy when they come home after work. They state, "when I was off work last week he never got so excited". 'That's because the puppy always had you around', we tell them. You have to sort of 'cold turkey' your puppy on being left alone. Prior to his delivery to you, he was with his litter mates twenty four hours a day. Then, often, he may go into your home on a weekend or holiday when he has lots of company. All of a sudden he is left alone for six hours. Wouldn't you get excited to see someone when they arrived home if you were a small child ?

Put your puppy in his kennel, where he has familiarity, and leave for ten minutes. Come home and assure him all is OK. Later leave for twenty minutes, then thirty five minutes, back to fifteen minutes, then for an hour, etc. Each time assure the puppy all is OK. He will then learn that you are always coming back. Do not do this procedure if other family members remain at home. A tip is to not take your puppy out of his kennel immediately each time you arrive home. He will get the idea that every time you come into the front door, it's play time. When he gets older this can be a real nuisance.

Recently we kept the most excitable dog in one of our litters, to raise for ourselves. He had the loudest bark and loved to bully every puppy he found. His bite is very strong and he loved to try it on every thing and person, he saw. Frankly, one reason we kept this puppy was because we did not want to have a client get such a problem puppy. After ten days in our home, he soon learned which toys were his to play with. He customarily slept under a desk during part of the day, where all the electrical cords in the world are present. He actually started going into his create, by himself, at night if we decided to stay up unusually late. He soon began to come to us almost one hundred percent of the time. We are not saying he's perfect. He definitely has his moments. But consistency and communications has started a development process that's enjoyable for both he and us. This is coming from folks who do not accept anything less than a stable atmosphere after a long day of handling lots of dogs and customers.

If you have problems with this information, please feel free to enlist in one of our training programs by calling us at our Training Division, 407-339-2275, or clicking globalk9@gmail.com

Thank you,
Florida K9 Services / Training Division

For More Puppy Training Tips Click A Subject Below

Housebreaking Tips

Voice Commands And Inflections

Food Drive Training

Back To The Top Of This Page