Help, my puppy is becoming a toddler! What should I do now? He still hangs in trouser legs, jumps up against visitors or on the couch, seems tireless, has bananas in his ears and sometimes seems to have forgotten everything he has learned.
Don’t worry, this is part of it, Van Stal is here to help you and your pup with this.
We give you all the tools so your doggie can grow up healthy and safe
Every proud owner of a new puppy goes to puppy school, it’s part of the deal. And even if you have experiences with puppies and doggies, often it’s been a while and the training methods for guiding a puppy into a stable adult dog has not stood still over the past few decades.
During puppy classes, you were given a lot of theory and tools about socialization, biting, sleeping and resting in the crate or puppy pen. Much is going pretty well by now, but there are days when everything doesn’t seem to be working.
Pups grow like cabbages and physically and mentally go through all kinds of phases at breakneck speed. Thus, they enter the fear phase and sometimes become afraid of “ordinary” things. They start teething and pee all over your house again. Before you know it, the pre-pubescent period also begins. And you thought having a puppy in the house was complicated?
Especially for these preschoolers, there is now a preschool class consisting of 3 lessons + a puppy playdate.
The 4 lessons consist of:
Help I have a toddler!
In this module, we take you through kindergarten behavior!
Dealing with undesirable behaviors such as jumping up, hanging in pant legs, no longer listening when off leash and pulling on the leash.
Teaching desired behaviors and exercises to train your dog’s self-control
Fun & Working Together! Your pup can really learn something.
Now it becomes clear that you can achieve a lot with fun & cooperation.
Exercises to make cooperation between you “fun”
How to teach your doggie a search game?
Rest/control, nose use and play interspersed
Grooming & Brain Work. Your pup and safety!
You get tools to do the grooming with your dog pleasantly and safely
How to prepare your dog for e.g. drying, brushing, a vet visit, a harness or muzzle
Puzzling
Mutual play, focusing on what play looks like and how best to guide it.
A puppy experiences its socialization period between 8 and 12 weeks of age. But of course that does not mean that this whole period is over after 12 weeks. Socializing is something you do for the rest of your life. You fill your backpack with experiences. From the pre-puberty period, another very vulnerable period starts for your doggie. Everything your doggie sees and experiences during this period he stores for the rest of his life. So a very important period in a dog’s life where he tests and learns social skills.
All in all, the preschool class is a learning addition to the early stages of life with a dog, giving extra attention to all the difficult puppy ups and downs, with the addition of new ways to take this further. Mixed with fun activities, to best enjoy your toddler.
If you are new to Van Stal, please create an account in Aniday first and don’t forget to add your dog.
This will allow us to best serve you and your dog. Account created? Choose your course + start date and click enroll.
