If you just got your own Havanese puppy, then you should be making preparations to house train it. First, congratulations on choosing this small toy breed. It's preferred by many pet owners due to a lovely combination of its size, disposition, sturdiness (even though it's a toy dog it's not fragile), smarts, and the fact that it barely sheds. It's also not too grooming and maintenance demanding. But on to house training. The Havanese, remember, are by nature playful, sociable, cheerful, outgoing, intelligent, loves to learn, and because of this is easy to train.
There's really not much of a waiting period for you to start training your pups. The several months you will pout into house training is going to be worth it. It would be easier to endure the headaches and potty accidents if you are really devoted to your puppies. Still, compared to other breeds that shut down when it feels your frustration, this breed is easier to train. It's recommended you start potty training the moment your pups hit four months old.
As with most dogs, its vital training your Havanese since it can stop some unwanted behavior, such as incessant barking, from developing into a bad habit. It's only natural for Havanese to bark, but when it becomes a constant annoyance, you have to do something. It's embarrassing to have to hush them when they bark like mad at another dog when you take them out for walks. And you don't want to have to keep getting up at odd ours after midnight because your dog senses a presence - curtains shifted by the wind, a truck pulling close to the house, birds perched on a branch outside the house but visible through the kitchen window. A Havanese puppy, trained well, flows into adulthood without much incident.
Many kinds of dogs respond well with stimulus-response by way of punishment after a particular behavior; the Havanese is not like that. Positive reinforcement actually works better for this smart dog. What you do is to maintain a routine of rewarding the pup every time it does what you say, or does something you approve of - such as holding on to its pee until it gets to the potty station. This positive experience works better in making it known to the dog that there are some behavior you approve of, and want to keep seeing the pup do, instead of punishing it. This reward system redirects the pup's attention to the praise and attention instead of focusing on the bad behavior.
Just a note here, when you're training your dog, you want to steer clear of a particular problem - small dog syndrome. You may have noticed that some small dog's grow to become aggressive, unfriendly to people, and bad with kids. The cause of this behavior has to do with what their owners let them get away with over the years. To avoid this, you need to make it clear to the dog that there are boundaries and limits, routines that are always in place, so that the dog will not abuse it and become a bratty dog.
There's really not much of a waiting period for you to start training your pups. The several months you will pout into house training is going to be worth it. It would be easier to endure the headaches and potty accidents if you are really devoted to your puppies. Still, compared to other breeds that shut down when it feels your frustration, this breed is easier to train. It's recommended you start potty training the moment your pups hit four months old.
As with most dogs, its vital training your Havanese since it can stop some unwanted behavior, such as incessant barking, from developing into a bad habit. It's only natural for Havanese to bark, but when it becomes a constant annoyance, you have to do something. It's embarrassing to have to hush them when they bark like mad at another dog when you take them out for walks. And you don't want to have to keep getting up at odd ours after midnight because your dog senses a presence - curtains shifted by the wind, a truck pulling close to the house, birds perched on a branch outside the house but visible through the kitchen window. A Havanese puppy, trained well, flows into adulthood without much incident.
Many kinds of dogs respond well with stimulus-response by way of punishment after a particular behavior; the Havanese is not like that. Positive reinforcement actually works better for this smart dog. What you do is to maintain a routine of rewarding the pup every time it does what you say, or does something you approve of - such as holding on to its pee until it gets to the potty station. This positive experience works better in making it known to the dog that there are some behavior you approve of, and want to keep seeing the pup do, instead of punishing it. This reward system redirects the pup's attention to the praise and attention instead of focusing on the bad behavior.
Just a note here, when you're training your dog, you want to steer clear of a particular problem - small dog syndrome. You may have noticed that some small dog's grow to become aggressive, unfriendly to people, and bad with kids. The cause of this behavior has to do with what their owners let them get away with over the years. To avoid this, you need to make it clear to the dog that there are boundaries and limits, routines that are always in place, so that the dog will not abuse it and become a bratty dog.
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Training your Havanese puppy effectively means creating a physical environment and routine . Being very consistent with this method of positive reinforcement will soon result in a Havanese puppy that only wants to please you, or at least get praised by you, by constantly doing as expected.
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