What to teach my 9 week old puppy next, he learns too fast it’s scary.

[ilooktogod]

Things he knows:
Sit
Lay Down
Stay (only waiting on his bowl, can only remain in a stay for 3-7 seconds)
Spin (he loves this)
In your crate

What should he learn next? I practice all of them at least twice a day and he still remembers, though struggles a little with stay.

He won’t go out until 16 weeks but I am working with socialization. Also how did you teach your puppy to stop jumping so much?

Edit: He knows “Ollie, come” but only when he knows I have food in my hand
Edit2: You guys are awesome, thank you for all the feedback.

What I got: I’ll be teaching them based on importance (for example leave it and distractions first then paw.. etc)
Doing commands with distractions, Leave it, Leash walking, Place, Paw for high five later, Settle, Touch items not only hand, Touch, Desensitize, Sit pretty, Chin for him to put his face in my palm, Off and On for jumping (he seems to get this one!)

Still taking notes and reading through the comments, you guys are awesome, thank you!

 

[deeinkp]

@ilooktogod Hello,
I'm a first time dog owner and here are some things we did when we got our puppy in december last year.
From day one we got our pup we desensitized his paws ears and mouth. For example after every walk we use a towel to wipe his paws even now. Our house stays clean and it helped us a bit when it came to trimming his nails. We also added the command "teeth" which basically is him letting us open his mouth looking inside. Also it helped us lots when we went outside and he was trying to eat everything he found xD it was a save way for us to grab everything out of his mouth without him biting us.
We got our pup in contact with his nail clipper and brush as early as possible as well to make him comfy with those things. We focused on his impulse control as well by holding a treat in our open hand in front of him. Whenever he tried to go for the treat we closed our hand to make it impossible for him to get it. Our puppy learned super fast that he only gets his treat when he does not go for it and instead looks us in the eyes. Now I can put his treats on his paws and only when he looks into my eyes and I give the word okay he can have them. Same thing applies to his food in his bowl now.
All in all these things so far have helped us with our puppy.

 

[ilooktogod]

@deeinkp Oh my god how did you teach teeth, please teach me. His breath is out of this world, but his biting when uncomfortable is worse than the smell

 

[deeinkp]

@ilooktogod Yeah we couldn't wait until we could brush his teeth.
For teeth we used the advice of our dog trainer. First just touching his mouth. Every time he does not try to nip at our finger which took a while we rewarded with treats. Then we slowly started to open his mouth with our hands. After every little bit again reward. We repeated those steps until he was comfortable with it.
For the biting in general well it does not stop. But again whenever he was biting too hard we told him that it hurts like ouch or something in a louder voice. Then put our hand away for a second. Then back to him letting us bite and crying out if it was too hard. This we repeated until his biting got lesser.
Our trainer said it's basically teaching the puppy how hard is ok. It's the same when puppy's play between themselves. When one is biting too hard the other puppy screams. So here it was us screaming instead of another puppy.

 

[nejtilsvampe]

@deeinkp That's very good advice

 

[deeinkp]

@nejtilsvampe Thank you
maybe one more thing.. a "simple" "stay" command can help a ton when visiting the vet and he has to take a look at your dog.

 

[nejtilsvampe]

@deeinkp Yeah, I'm currently teaching mine (almost 7 months old) "wait" until I say "ok" before getting his treat and meal to help with his impulse control. He's in his phase where he reacts to every situation. I made an erroneous assumption that he's used to my every day's sound where in fact he discovered he has a voice and can just shout

 

[deeinkp]

@nejtilsvampe I feel you. Our dog suddenly becomes scared of things on our walk. It's not like the last 3 days we walked the same route and everything was fine but no know on the 4th walk suddenly a trash bin is scary. And ofc every other person is so exiting and he wants to run up to them getting patted

 

[thehumblebumble]

@deeinkp Did you use a certain program? Sounds like you’re doing an incredible job and I hope I can get there quickly myself!

 

[deeinkp]

@thehumblebumble We are going to puppy school but some of these tips we got from watching different YouTube videos of others sharing their experience.

 

[mistya]

@ilooktogod "Leave it" to not grab something and "out" when he has something are two very important things that should be your next goal since he's getting good with the basics. To introduce leave it you can try holding one type of treat in one hand, close it if needed, if he smells that's fine. Once he ignores it, you reward a treat with your OTHER hand. Never reward with the item you wanted him to leave. You can try to step this up by dropping a treat on the ground, put your foot over it if needed, when ignoring, reward. You can practice "out" by using a toy. When he has one in his mouth, hold a treat in front of his noise and say the word, reward when it's dropped. There will be greater temptations and challenges, different environments and more interesting things where even if you think they know the command, you'll have to build upon it. That's just the beginner way to introduce those commands. They're so important though. You might drop medication or toxic food on the floor and knowing "leave it" can save their life. Maybe they killed a squirrel or picked up a dangerous item and you need it dropped before they ingest it, which is why out is important. Take advantage of this age while his brain is like a sponge!

 

[ilooktogod]

@mistya That’s so good. I’ll be trying this for his next feeding. Let’s say he understands leave it with my hand but messes up with a toy or an item I drop, should I say “No” in your opinion or more focus on the positives of when he does well? I’m getting a clicker next week but for this week i’m working with verbal cues. Thank you!

 

[mistya]

@ilooktogod Just reiterate the command of "leave it" if it still hasn't entered his mouth. If it's a toy you wanted him to leave and he didn't, you'd have to change to "out". If he gobbled up a treat that ship has sailed and you'll have to go to square one haha. In the past with my pups, they've all been to puppy classes for basic training and their social skills mainly because as you see the sit, lay down, etc commands are pretty easy to teach yourself. My current pup is 3 and a half months old and I decided to do private lessons in my home because I wanted to get a little more in depth with him and my trainer has been awesome and has shown me easier ways and methods (some tips I shared with you) than I was even shown in the past last time I was dealing with puppy phase (with my girl who's now 11 years old). You can find a lot of information on training online and there's a LOT of bad advice out there. Positive reinforcement training and lots of treats is the best method and no reason for that not to be good enough for a puppy with no negative history. That's where a good trainer does come in handy if it's affordable because they can correct the human if needed. Sometimes we are doing things we don't even realize is making the outcome not be what we want. Or maybe we're doing the same or really similar hand signal for two different things. Based on your pup's behavior a trainer can also say ok maybe this way instead of that way would be easier for them. So much of what my trainer has told me I knew it or read it, but watching it done with my dog specifically has helped a lot. Because lets face it those Youtube videos.. you're usually seeing the most well trained dog making it look like a piece of cake.

 

[peaceloving]

@ilooktogod My pup is 10.5 weeks and also picks up stuff super quick! We have also taught “off/leave it” which is a super important one to learn, and “touch.” This week we are working on “place” and walking attentively on a leash (we practice this inside and in the backyard, she gets a treat every time she makes eye contact while walking beside me at a loose heel position. I click at her to get her attention when I want to practice this behaviour and it seems like the novel sound was enough to just work instinctively for her)

 

[ilooktogod]

@peaceloving Gotcha! Adding leave it, touch and place to the list. Will also try leash walking. Should I always reward a command with any type of food at this time? Whenever I say “come” without a treat or something near me he doesn’t listen..

 

[peaceloving]

@ilooktogod I don’t reward with treats 100% of the time, but only because sometimes I run out of them in my pocket haha. Recall is one I really try to always treat because we camp and hike and I need her recall to be 100%. The others I treat more sporadically once they have got it figured out. Even if I don’t give a treat I always give praise and a nice pat. I have a golden so while she is super food motivated, she is also very motivated by praise, so it does still seem like she thinks of that as a reward.

 

[3ve]

@ilooktogod “Wait” is a good one. We trained our puppy by making her wait before doorways and before crossing the street.

 

[ilooktogod]

@3ve I use stay instead as “Wait”, and “okay” as my release, should I teach both wait and stay?

 

[harveyhj]

@ilooktogod I use wait as a general 'be patient' and chill, and stay as a 'do not move from this spot at all'

I also prefer 'break' as a release as 'okay' is used alot in formal conversation. Mine knows both though, just gotta work on it.

 

[ilooktogod]

@harveyhj Just an update I started using wait instead of Stay.. man i owe it to ya, he stops whining and just looks at me to say okay whenever I bring out the food. It’s like he knows “wait is not that long so I can endure.”