Puppy Obedience Training
Are you interested in a German Shepherd puppy, but find yourself wanting a head start on puppy obedience training?
It’s 1 A.M. in the morning and you hear your puppy starting to whimper. At 8 weeks old its bladder is still small and she is still needing to head out to potty multiple times each night. Your right arm feels like you just finished an arm wrestling competition. Who knows where all those squirrels came from. But it seemed like little Roxanne wanted to chase every single one of them. And that new leather purse. Not a chew toy! While a colorful description of what on occasion occurs when a new puppy goes home, there are other options. We regularly get asked about puppy obedience training. Do we offer it? What does it cost. What should be expected during this introduction to puppy obedience training. Let’s get into it.
First things first, we only offer training on German Shepherd puppies for sale we produce.
What to expect from our puppy obedience training?
Phase 1 of our puppy obedience training:
Our puppy obedience training is typically broken up into two phases: phase one and phase two. In phase one of our puppy boot camp, we start with name recognition, sit, down, basic leash training, heel on leash, crate training, potty training, finally stay. Phase 1 puppy obedience training should be considered introductory training.The same with the second phase. Your puppy should be making age related progress in these areas. In addition to starting these basic aspects of obedience training, your puppy will come into our home with the goal of socialization. With six children of our own, our home is busy place. Bringing your puppy into our home continues the socialization process (We begin all our puppies with early neurological stimulation within a day or two of birth.) Socializing your puppy training; then, is a continuation of the early neurological stimulation we start from the day puppies are born.
Phase 2 of our puppy obedience training
Phase 2 of our puppy boot camp continues strengthening your puppy’s name recognition, leash training, heel on leash, sit, stay, crate training, potty training. In this second stage of our puppy obedience training, we continue introducing your puppy to other animals— both large and small in size. During this second phase, distractions are added to leash training. While walking your puppy we will bring along an adult dog that is not on leash. Your puppy will be expected to obediently heel, walking and sitting by the handler despite the distraction of this older dog playing and running free beside the puppy. This tool of brining along an off leash dog is a fantastic way to step up obedience training in this second phase. Puppies are expected to sit quietly beside the person walking them, despite this older dog playing and running free. We expect our puppies to practice focusing on “their person.” A well-disciplined and focused dog makes for a great companion and is essential if the added step of bite work and protection training should ever be considered. Further distractions are added such as new surroundings and other animals.
Going on a walk with your dog. Meet your neighbor and stop for an impromptu conversation. You don’t want your dog pulling on the leash and whining. You want your puppy sitting quietly for five or ten minutes until your conversation is finished. A disciplined puppy will walk calmly beside you even if a squirrel or other animals runs close by while in the park.
Puppy Training Cost
Puppy Obedience Training Phase 1: $1500
Puppy Obedience Training Phases 1 and 2 combined: $2800
Custom Puppy Obedience Training: available on request
Custom puppy obedience training options
On occasion, families will come to us with an interest in setting the stage for more serious training that readies their puppy for bite and protection work. In such cases, custom puppy obedience training options may be available. Again, this is only for dogs bred and born here on our ranch in Oklahoma. With a passion for the kind of dog training that produces highly responsive obedience in our dogs, we don’t farm out training to employees. We do it ourselves. As such, before committing to further training, we would anticipate evaluating a dog’s habits— even it has come from our breeding program— to ensure it is a good fit and temperament for pursuing more serious dog training such as bite and protection work. If you find yourself interested in pursuing higher level puppy obedience training with a puppy you purchased from us or plan on buying in the near future, feel free to bring this up and talk about what options might be available.
Here at Czech Working Line, we are passionately committed to producing healthy dogs (German Shepherds), that live a long time and are super easy to train. This is one of the key reasons why we never mix show line German Shepherds in with our working line dogs. The extreme slanted hindquarters and roach back of the show lines end up causing so many joint and health issues it’s not worth attempting to combine these lines. Buy one of our working line German Shepherd puppies for sale, and rest assured. That puppy will be 100% from true, authentic working lines! Call with questions you have on our litters or what kind of training might make the most sense for including with the purchase of one of our German Shepherd puppies.