how old should a dog be when it starts training?
can you teach a old dog new tricks? if so, how?

please help me.

Dog Training Bumpers and Dummies

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1. As soon as you bring a puppy home, you can start training basics like "sit" and "down". For more focused obedience training (ie. classes), it is best to wait until 16 weeks or so.

2. Yes. The same way you would train a puppy!

Dog and Puppy Obedience Training - More Dog Training Tips

• 1. The earlier the better. Basic commands can begun being taught at 8 weeks when a new puppy comes home.
  2. Definitely! You will follow the same approach as you would with a puppy. There are obedience classes and books that will teach you to teach your dog. I am a fan of clicker training for most dogs, it works well and is positive, so dogs usually enjoy their training sessions. Just have patience, it may take a little longer for an older dog to catch on to the command than a young puppy, but they will get there with time and repetition.


• You can start training your dog as soon as you gain his trust and you feel comfortable with each other. The earlier you are able to start training your dog, the more effective training will be. Puppies will learn at a much faster clip and do not have ingrained behaviors that must be unlearned.
  
  To earn and maintain your dog's trust you must remain gentle. Dogs are social animals and develop a real attachment to their owners. That attachment, in large measure, is at the heart of dog training. A dog who trusts his owner and who sincerely wants to please his companion is far more likely to remain attentive and compliant during the training process.
  
  To have an effective training program you must emphasize prevention. The basic goal of prevention is to intervene before a problem is created instead of simply responding to the problem. Instead of waiting for the dog to make a mistake to correct, the prevention-minded owner will keep close watch to see imminent difficulties and will intervene early to prevent them from arising in the first place


• training start from the day they were born by their mother ;)
  
  human to dog training start when the dogs are old enough to comprehend what goes on around them (ie when they can see, hear and move about)
  
  at 12 weeks when our owners come to get their dogs the dogs already know the following things
  - No
  - Sit
  - Come
  - Lay down
  - more or less potty trained with exception of the now and again accident
  - alert when they want out
  - know not to bite ie humans aint teethers
  - and they are familiar with the leash even if they aint properly leash trained they started geting used to it and that it means a positive thing
  - they are familar with being examined and having heir claws cut
  - know to bark on moose (it walk rigth past the dogyard and the elder dogs will teach them)
  
  when the owners get older dogs then that then depending on how old the dogs are (up to 6 or even in some cases 10 months) the dogs also know
  - know to stay indirectly through sit and lay
  - how to walk on a leash and stop stand for cars
  - know how to stand in show position and be measured
  - familiar with being groomed
  - in some cases has already been shown (puppyclass is 4-9 months)
  - likely have been trained in tracking game tracks as well as blood tracks
  - quite posible depending age (around 6 months up) been loose and tested in the forest on moose for training
  
  ie if someone get a dog thats 10 months from us its fully trained by the time they pick it up.
  
  and no there is no upward agelimit on a dog learning anything. Nor downward as long as you keep it positive and fun for the dog, and dont exhaust it but train it on dog premises (ie by manipulating it to do what you want, like leading a treat up over its head to make it sit to be able to follow the treat)


• as far as house training (potty training) them, as soon as you get them. I had our lab house trained before he was 3 months old. Just take him/her outside every 30 minutes and tell them to go potty, they will catch on quick. As far as teaching them tricks, get yourself a bag of treats, sit down on the floor where you are pretty much eye level with them, tell them the command you want them to do, and then show them (like speak...you would bark, shake...you would grab their paw and shake it, etc). They will pick it up quick. As far as old dogs, that might not be so easy but you could have fun trying and it would be a great bonding time with you and your pet. Of course it depends on the age of your dog, I have one that is about 12 years old and she just looks at me like i'm stupid...lol...but she is my baby. Hope this helps.


• as soon as you get the new puppy. i've got an 8 week chihuahua, we got her at 5 weeks old. it has been a looong 3 weeks but she now knows to use the puppy pads and not peedle on mommy's bed.
  
  likewise an old dog can often be easier to train than a puppy, in most cases they are a lot calmer and have a longer attention span.


• Mama dogs train from birth.The minute you get a puppy you can start training. Picking up a pup and taking them out as soon as they eat will show the puppy where they should go. Keeping up with that is the easiest way to successfully housebreak a puppy


• my pup was 6 weeks old when I started training him. You can start as soon as they have their eyes open and can walk as far as I am concerned. Old dog, new tricks. SURE. Teach them the same as a new pup. Treats, praise and love.


• Dog Training Chart.
  
  Puppies-8-10 months
  Young Dogs-1-4
  Adult Dogs-5-9
  Senior Dogs--10-14+
  
  Yes you can teach an old dog new tricks..use treats.


• Start training a dog as soon as it comes home. Training an old dog new tricks is done the same way as training a young pup. It just may take a little longer to untrain learned bad behavior.


• Sure..as long the is dog not in a sleepy mood!! You just have to have a lot of treats and a handful of patience!!


• We brought my puppy to his first Petsmart training class when he was about 7 weeks old.


• You scould traing them there a puppy when they can see and walk.


• Right away.


• immediately