Poodle Secrets - For Poodle Owners Or For Those Who Want One!
Life With Poodle Pups
If you have never had a dog before, don’t start with a puppy. Please get an adult, to ease you into the transition of life with dogs. But if you are ready for a Poodle pup, learn all the Poodle puppy care you can before you bring your new best friend home. Make sure everyone in the house knows the house rules and commands to use around the puppy. This will make training a lot less confusing.
Decide in advance if your Poodle pup will be allowed into certain rooms, allowed on the furniture or where the potty area should be. Poodles learn very quickly, but all learn at their own rate. Remember, the World's Smartest Dog is currently a Toy Poodle (and the previous one was also a Toy Poodle). Getting your Poodle pup to look at you on command is a great training feat. When your dog pays attention to you, training is a lot easier.
Find out all of the Poodle information you can about training, exercising and feeding. Your Poodle pup's breeder should be able to help you with this (that's part of what you paid for!) You can also go to Poodle rescue websites for help, as they contain a lot of helpful training tips, especially about problem behaviors. You can also ask you vet for advice.
Good nutrition also plays an important role in raising any puppy, let alone a Poodle pup. Don’t let the pup eat all they want to – they can get very sick. Puppies will constantly seem famished, but they really aren't, so don’t believe them when they beg. Too much food has the same effect on Poodles as on kids – they get too hyperactive to focus on schooling. Limit or eliminate people food entirely. Puppies need more protein than adult dog food to help them grow, so feed age appropriate food also.
Another thing that is especially important for your Poodle pup to learn is how to stay still during grooming. Since their coats have a life of their own, they will need a lot of grooming in their lives. Poodle puppy care needs to include training to keep calm during grooming, as well as the actual grooming. When they are young and the coats are short, get them used to the brush, the sound of any electric clippers and to have their body parts felt. If you are not sure how to do this, ask your vet to help you.
Basically, you will want to praise good behavior and ignore bad behavior when training your Poodle pup to like grooming. Praise and pet when they ignore the brush and either ignore or say no if they try to bite the brush. You may also like to give them a chewy treat to keep their minds off of being brushed. With all of your training sessions, always end on a good note.
Everyone should have to know at least the basics of care requirements before being allowed to bring Poodle puppies home. If people knew basic Poodle puppy care before buying a puppy there would be far fewer abandoned Poodles.
Decide in advance if your Poodle pup will be allowed into certain rooms, allowed on the furniture or where the potty area should be. Poodles learn very quickly, but all learn at their own rate. Remember, the World's Smartest Dog is currently a Toy Poodle (and the previous one was also a Toy Poodle). Getting your Poodle pup to look at you on command is a great training feat. When your dog pays attention to you, training is a lot easier.
Find out all of the Poodle information you can about training, exercising and feeding. Your Poodle pup's breeder should be able to help you with this (that's part of what you paid for!) You can also go to Poodle rescue websites for help, as they contain a lot of helpful training tips, especially about problem behaviors. You can also ask you vet for advice.
Good nutrition also plays an important role in raising any puppy, let alone a Poodle pup. Don’t let the pup eat all they want to – they can get very sick. Puppies will constantly seem famished, but they really aren't, so don’t believe them when they beg. Too much food has the same effect on Poodles as on kids – they get too hyperactive to focus on schooling. Limit or eliminate people food entirely. Puppies need more protein than adult dog food to help them grow, so feed age appropriate food also.
Another thing that is especially important for your Poodle pup to learn is how to stay still during grooming. Since their coats have a life of their own, they will need a lot of grooming in their lives. Poodle puppy care needs to include training to keep calm during grooming, as well as the actual grooming. When they are young and the coats are short, get them used to the brush, the sound of any electric clippers and to have their body parts felt. If you are not sure how to do this, ask your vet to help you.
Basically, you will want to praise good behavior and ignore bad behavior when training your Poodle pup to like grooming. Praise and pet when they ignore the brush and either ignore or say no if they try to bite the brush. You may also like to give them a chewy treat to keep their minds off of being brushed. With all of your training sessions, always end on a good note.
Everyone should have to know at least the basics of care requirements before being allowed to bring Poodle puppies home. If people knew basic Poodle puppy care before buying a puppy there would be far fewer abandoned Poodles.
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