How Do I Train My Dog To Be Perfect?

Morning guys Alice here packmaster dog training woke up this morning and I had like I think 18 emails asking me about crate training how do you raise the best puppy and what I do with my dogs during the day when I'm not home I'm not really sure why I don't know if there's some kind of debate going around about crate training and leaving your dogs in the house I'm not sure but instead of responding to each and every email I'll just tell you what I do with my own dogs about 20 years ago I was working with a trainer and he gave me some of the best advice I've ever received as far as dog training goes that I stuck to from then and I stick to now and that was when I get a puppy and you're going through the crate training of course you have to use a crate there it's just a great tool the rule of thumb is.

How do you raise the best dog?

I keep my dogs in a crate at night to sleep till they're one-year-old okay no matter how housebroken they are how well trained till they're one year old they sleep in their crate when I'm not home during the day when the dogs are left home alone rule of thumb is they are created till they are two years old I do not leave them loose in the house until they are two years old that's about when they have the maturity level to where they could be trusted alone and they not going to destroy the house or do things they shouldn't be now that is literally maybe the best piece of advice I ever got and the reason we were talking about is I saw the this guy's dogs this trainers dogs the the behavior was impeccable he had perfectly behaved dogs and that's what I've always been interested in I wasn't interested in the fancy stuff and the tricks of the obedience I wanted the behavior and when I started the business several years ago I was approached by a lot of people not because my dogs did cool or fancy things they didn't

They didn't do anything they would just see me out and about with my dogs off leash no training collars no e collars no nothing and their behavior was always well so the behavior of the dogs very very important for me so when we get a puppy for the first two years we put in a lot of work and a lot of effort I'm kind of obnoxious and little OCD about it but I want to teach that dog as much as possible how to raise the best dog I want a well balanced well-behaved stable dog and the crate is an incredible tool for people that create their dogs all the time when they're not on there's nothing wrong with it you know I mean as long as you're not using the crate for punishment and you're doing all right if I put a crate in my living room tonight my dogs would fight to get in it they would love to go in it so that's just it is but for me I want my dogs loose in the house that's kind of the purpose I don't.

How To Raise A Puppy?

I don't see having a dog you know cooped up while you're not home but there's nothing wrong with it there's nothing wrong with also I don't know if there is a debate going around but that is literally some of the best advice I ever received and that was over 20 years ago again rule of thumb they sleep in their crate no matter how housebroken how well-trained to the one-year-old and they stay in the crate when no one's home till they're two years old and that's just a rule of thumb I've always stuck to and you know my dogs are self-sufficient they're in the house I've never come home to an accident in the house or they don't get into the garbage or don't take stuff off the counters they don't do any of that stuff but we put the work in for the first two years so we don't spend time fixing bad behaviors we're teaching proper behavior and the dog never develops those bad behaviors that's the trick with using the crate properly so I hope this how to raise the perfect dog clears up a few things for people but again stick to those rules and you should be really really good to go and you'll get a lot of great benefits from it okay so hope this helps.

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