The First 5 Things Every Puppy MUST Lea

In today's video, we're going to be going over the top five things you must teach your puppy, day one, hour one, minute one, or you'll be setting you and your puppy up for a lifetime of catastrophe. Let's get into it. All right. First thing we need to talk about is potty training. Cause look, I don't care how well trained your dog is. I don't care if it go into the kitchen, make you a ham and cheese sandwich and bring you a beer to the couch. If you don't get that potty training under control, none of it matters because nothing will drive you up a wall faster than a puppy that is peeing and pooping all over your house multiple times a day. It's not sustainable. It's crazy. It'll make you crazy. And I will tell you potty training, there is no secret. How is it that I know for a fact that he's going to pee right here and now because it's on a schedule y'all it's on a schedule. That's the only way to do it. Don't leave it up to your puppy to guess and hope maybe he needs to pee or hope he will come over and tap you on the shoulder and say, Hey, Dodo head, take me outside to pee. The only way you can get this done the way we show you inside of our courses is to have a puppy schedule. You know, when they drink, you know, how much they drink, you know, when they ate, you know, how much they ate. And if you know those things and you can kind of do a little calculation on the size of the dog, the age of the dog, then you can figure out pretty much down to the minute, exactly when they need to go out. I don't care if it's a puppy or an adult dog, we should put them on a schedule and we should know when they eat, when they drink. So you know exactly when they need to go out and poop. It's that easy. If you do it right, you can and should have your puppy trained within 24 to 48 hours, completely potty trained. If you do it wrong, you're talking about months or years of heartache and headaches. So long story short, get the potty training done lickety split so that you can love your puppy and not hate them from you having to clean up a bunch of pee and poop all day and every day. If you're wondering who the star of the show is, this is Drax, a 12 week old Italian Mastiff, AKA Connie Corso. And he's part of our build a puppy series, sweepstakes giveaway. What we're doing is we're taking folks behind the scenes and showing them step-by-step how we raise and train a puppy from zero to hero. We're talking potty training, crate training, and everything we need to have a dog that's fully on and off leash trained before they get six months of age. What we do here all day, every day. You want to get involved and more importantly, have your chance to win either $25,000 cash or this exact puppy here when he's fully finished. Check out diycanine.com so you can get involved and you can see everything it takes to raise a puppy, to be the best that they can be or just win the puppy. Let's get back to the video. Now you can't have potty training without crate training. They go together like peanut butter and jelly. In other words, you cannot have one without the other. Anyone telling you something different, they're lying to you because there is no way on God's green earth that you're going to have 24 7 eyes on your puppy at all times. You got to make phone calls. You got to go to work. You've got to go to the restroom yourself and no, you don't need to take your puppy into the bathroom with you. They are just like a little infant, man. They need to get some rest. And just like an infant, if they don't get rest, they get real ornery real quick and they turn into a little terrorist. So if you don't want your puppet to turn into a little terrorist, allow them to take their naps in. Guess what? Just like a terrorist likes a cave to hide in the back. Dogs and puppies love a little cave like experience. It's a little place to call their home. It's their little safe space. Should they want to get rest and relaxation? And so we're going to lean into that. Now, having said that, the crate is a hugely valuable tool and I'll tell you why. If your puppy is left to their own devices and you don't have eyes on them for as little as 30 seconds, they're doing one of three things. Finding something to chew, finding somewhere to pee or finding somewhere to poop or God forbid pooping and then turning around and chewing on that. And we don't want that, folks. So instead, make sure that you are taking them out enough, which we covered in potty training. But back to the crate training aspect, you've got to ask yourself, rid of me this Batman. Why is he staying in the crate? Because we pay him in the crate. And so get yourself a little bowl, a little something and every time he makes the decision to go in the crate on his own, he gets paid, but he can get his meals in there. You can turn an entire training session into guess what? Coming in and out of the crate as such. Crate. It's like a little miracle, right? It says if he came pre-installed from the factory, loving the crate. No, we trained it. How long does it take to train it? Three to five minutes. Make them love the crate. They're going to be going in and out of the crate 10 times a day. I don't want 10 experiences that every time you put them in the crate, you lock them up. No. How about every time you go in the crate, you get paid, you get to play with a toy, you get to do something amazing. All right, let's roll into the next section. All right, now we need to talk about socialization and environmentals. A lot of people get socialization screwed up. They think their puppy needs to socialize with every dog they come in contact with. It could be further from the truth. You don't know the background of that dog. You don't know what's criminal history. You don't know what it's capable of. And it only takes an instant, an instant for your dog to have a bad experience with another dog, another human, another animal, something inanimate in the world, like a garbage truck. They have a bad experience. They're going to be walking away physically and or mentally scarred for life. And so you only have one chance to do it right, y'all. So if you're going to introduce your puppy to a horse, make sure it's a nice freaking horse. If you're going to introduce it to another kid, make sure it's a nice kid that doesn't accidentally pull on their ears or step on their tail and make it a traumatic experience and so on and so forth. We want the socialization. We want the environmentals, but you have to do it right. If you do it too hard, too fast, or they walk away with a bad experience, you just screwed the puppy. You're done. And it's going to take a lifetime of management to try to get that puppy to eventually overcome it. And they almost never do. And you're just struggling to maintain a reactive dog or a dog that's scared of its own shadow or a dog that's terrified by horses, you name it. So do it, but do it carefully. The next thing we want to talk about is getting your puppy used to the tools that they will require when they are older, right? It's kind of like your kid doesn't just jump in a car with their license and start driving. I don't want the day that I need to use a prong collar and e-collar. I just slap it on and start using it. You will destroy your relationship with your puppy, which at that point might be a dog, and you will destroy that dog's relationship with the tool. Instead, what you need to do is properly introduce it at a very young age. And yes, this is a prong collar and this is a 12 week old puppy, but don't forget that this dog's going to be at least 130 plus pounds. And look at him putting, he's literally what we call dressing themselves because there's no doubt in my mind that when he's 130 pounds, if I want my wife to be able to control him, or I want one of my young daughters to be able to walk him or anybody else, I want him to respond with fingertip pressure. The only way that's going to be accomplished is teaching him how to respond to these tools. Yes, at a young age, that includes the flat collar, a Martingale collar, a prong collar, an e-collar, whatever collar it is you're going to use, you got to start introducing it early so that the day you need to use it, they're already used to it. So it's built in early on how to respond, what the tool is, what the pressure is, that it's not a death sentence. It means rock and roll. And I'll just show you that again. All you idiots out there, not y'all. I'm like, what is he f***ing me for? The positive only fruitcakes will tell you that the dogs hate the tool. They're scared of it. It causes pain. This is an e-collar, a real one. He's going to put his head through it. Why? Because it means awesome. It means I'm going to get kinetic performance dog food in my belly. It means tail wiggle. And then we're going to continue to introduce it the right way, which is a lot longer of a video that I can't put in this small short video on YouTube, but there is a right and a wrong way to do it. And if you do it the wrong way, you will absolutely screw your dog up. Drax here. Yes. Good boy. So food luring is the next thing that we're going to talk about and how you can use the power of food luring to literally teach your dog anything you want. In fact, it is the foundation of all modern dog training. Any dog trainer worth their salt is using food in some form or fashion. And why is that? Just like with humans where they say a way to a man's heart is through their stomach. It's the same with young puppies. Like their first and foremost thought from the moment they wake up and empty their bladder, maybe get a little water in their system is who's got the food. Where can I get it? How can I get it? Yes. And what are the, some of the things I can do to get it? If you're not out here training with your pup, letting them eat from your hands, teaching recall, sits down, place, front centers, rotations, you name it. Then your dog is just eating an entire free bowl of food, which is cool, right? Give your dog free food. They didn't earn it. No problem. But they're doing it in isolation, eating in a corner by themselves, eating in a crate by themselves. There's no fun in that. I don't know about you, but we as human creatures eating is a very social situation. It's the same with dogs. They usually eat in a pack where they can establish hierarchy and so many other things. And it's your opportunity to not only create that bond, but also to have that currency exchange. Like I mentioned, we just think of this piece of kibble, kinetic performance dog food, by the way, shout out to them. This is like a dollar. And all we got to do is say like, you can have a dollar, bro. Just do something for it. Don't let your dog just eat food out of a bowl. It's completely wasted. Your dog will have a better relationship with their food bowl than they will with you. And I don't think that's what you want. There's this critical window in which you need to train your puppy right from wrong. And the longer you wait, the worse it gets. So we get asked all the time, when should I start training my puppy? As soon as possible. The better day than today would have been yesterday. And so get involved, follow along, subscribe, check out our courses, check out our membership. And last but not least, we got a brand new course called Dog Training Decoded. It's 100% free and it's going to walk and talk you through all the different styles of training that is available to you as a consumer. Whether you want boarding and training, private training, group training, what works, what doesn't work, how much does it cost, how long does it take, and what's actually going to work for you and your dog or puppy. I highly recommend you check it out. You owe it to yourself. You owe it to your dog. And again, it's 100% free because you only get one chance to get this right. And I'd hate for you to get it wrong. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next one.