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Basics of Toy Poodle Training

Basics of Toy Poodle Training

It's essential for Toy Poodle parents like you to know certain basic factors that determine your relationship with your Toy Poodle and can go a long way in training him effectively.

Before you begin training your Toy Poodle, it is absolutely essential that you build a loving bond with him. This is important as it helps you to understand his needs and instincts and also allows your Toy Poodle to have complete trust in you.

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How To Bond With Your Toy Poodle

Building a bond with your Toy Poodle is the first and the most crucial step involved in training him successfully. As soon as you bring your Toy Poodle home, you must first try to develop a caring and loving relationship with him in order to win his trust and confidence.

When Toy Poodles are secure in the knowledge that they belong to the family, they are more likely to respond better to their owners' training commands. Just like with any relationship, there must be mutual trust and respect between you and your Toy Poodle.

Trust takes time to develop and respect comes from defining boundaries and treating any breach of those boundaries with firmness and fairness.

Without enforceable limitations, respect can’t be developed. And when there is no respect, building a bond with your Toy Poodle is almost impossible.

4 Golden Rules To Building A Relationship With Your Toy Poodle:

Spend quality time together;

Take him out in the world and experience life together;

Establish and promote a level of mutual respect; and

Develop a way of communicating to understand each other's needs.

Building a bond with your Toy Poodle will not only help you manage him better but will also make your Toy Poodle calm, quiet and an extremely well-adjusted pet.

Love Your Toy Poodle and He Will Love You back

Once you're successful in building a bond with your Toy Poodle, you can rest assured that training him and teaching him new and clever tricks will be a cakewalk.

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How Your Toy PoodleLearns...

Your Toy Poodle's learning period can be divided into five phases:

The Teaching Phase - This is the phase where you must physically demonstrate to your Toy Poodle exactly what you want him to do.

The Practicing Phase - Practice makes Perfect. Once a lesson is learnt, practice with your Toy Poodle what you have just taught him.

The Generalizing Phase - Here you must continue practicing with your Toy Poodle in different locations and in an environment with a few distractions. You can take your Toy Poodle out for a walk, or to a nearby park and command him to practice whatever you've taught him.

Practicing the learned lessons in multiple locations and in the presence of small distractions will help him learn and retain lessons better.

The Testing Phase - Once you're sure that your Toy Poodle has achieved almost 90% success....he responds correctly almost every time you give a command, you must start testing his accuracy in newer locations with a lot of distractions.

Example: Take him to the local shopping mall and ask him to obey your command. He may not come up with the correct response the very first time you do this, but you must not lose hope.

The idea is to test your Toy Poodle to see how he responds in an environment which is new to him. Set-up a situation where you are in control of the environment and your Toy Poodle.

There are only 2 possibilities:

Your Toy Poodle succeeds!!! (Trumpets please!)

In case your Toy Poodle fails, re-examine the situation. Review and/or change your training. Then try testing again.

Keep on testing until he succeeds. Follow the rule of the 3 Ps – patience, persistence, praise.

Internalizing Phase - Finally, comes the extremely rewarding phase where your Toy Poodle does everything he is taught to do even without your commands.

Remember:

Never scold your Toy Poodle if he fails. It's not his fault. You have failed as a trainer!

You must be patient and persistent for your efforts to show rewards.

Appreciate and love your Toy Poodle when he does it right! A little encouragement will work wonders for your Toy Poodle.

Toy Poodle Training is easy when you do it right.

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