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get into their new homes that the new owners confuse the puppies about where they
should go potty.
The new owners often take a perfectly clean puppy and teach him to soil the house by
doing everything all wrong. NOW is when you should begin training your puppy. DO
NOT wait until the dog is 6 months old.
The puppy is a learning “SPONGE” at this age, and to not give it structured training is to
allow it to learn BAD habits.
Puppies have a full adult brain at 49 days of age. There is absolutely no reason to wait
longer than that to teach the puppy proper behavior. It is much easier to install correct
behaviors than to let the puppy grow up like a wild savage and then try to “untrain” the
bad behaviors later!
In the past, I think people recommended that the training did not start until 6 months
because many training classes used “punishment” methods to teach obedience. Now, we
realize that positive methods are so much more effective.
Even a tiny puppy can learn the basics of sit, down, stay, come and heel without even
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