How to train a Rottweiler Puppy
hey what’s up guys Tommy Grammer here
tonight I’m working with this little
Rottweiler puppy by far one of my
favorite breeds to work with she was
dropped off at my training school last
week and I’ve been doing some foundation
work with her and I thought I’d do a
video showing you guys how I work with a
young puppy at 13 weeks old well what
I’m going to be doing tonight is just
running her through some basic obedience
cues I’m going to introduce some nail
clippers I’m also going to introduce a
dog toy hopefully you can take home some
of these tips and implement them with
your own puppy alright let’s go ahead
and get started all right guys let’s get
started so have a few things here that
I’m going to be working with with Bailey
here I’ve got just a soft dog toy here I
have I can get them out some nail
clippers on my pocket that are currently
jammed in my pocket there we go smell
clippers which luckily right now she
doesn’t don’t mean anything to her so I
can go ahead and get her feeling good
about these and then I have some of her
kibble in my training pouch all right so
what I’m gonna go ahead and start doing
is I’m gonna put the toys and the nail
clippers away at first and I’m going to
be working with food so what I’m gonna
do is I’m gonna just run her through
some some basic obedience he’s like sit
and lay down and stay now I have been
working with her a little bit before so
she does know some of these cues so
right now I’ll go and show you Bailey
down what a good girl
and I’m gonna give her some food good
girl okay now if your puppies makes
mistakes
don’t worry about it it’s not a big deal
you have all the time in the world to be
correcting your dog for mistakes down
the road at this point if the puppy
makes a mistake all I do is just mark it
and try to let the puppy know that
they’ve done something wrong by marking
it but I don’t physically correct the
puppy or anything like that I want them
to know that training is fun and it’s
okay to make a mistake
Bailey place what a good girl good girl
okay good set
good notice also that I’m feeding often
alright that you don’t have to be shy
about giving your dog plenty of food
right now also I’m using kibble anyway
so I would be giving it to her might as
well make her work work for it what a
good girl sit now if your puppy doesn’t
know these cues then what you want to be
doing is you want to just start luring
them into position so what I would start
doing with a puppy they didn’t know how
to sit or lay down or go to a place I
would go real slow with them do things
like lure in here into sit position
luring her into the down position
good I’m luring her in on to a place
good good girl
Bailey calm good girl so it’s real basic
guys don’t try to get a head up yourself
do things like down good girl okay once
we put some of those of be its cues and
we get going with those let’s talk to
introduce some other things things like
nail clippers something that most adult
dogs really hate seeing so if you have a
puppy you can go ahead and start
introducing them now so I may do things
like picking up that Paul touching the
nail the Clippers what a good girl what
a good dog and then up feeding grab that
Paul touch the nail to the Clippers what
a good girl good girl
very nice look at that a good girl
pick up the Paul now to the Clippers
what a good girl so I’m doing these kind
of things that are going to prepare the
dog and prepare the puppy for how to be
a dog and how to be a good dog once she
gets older pick up the paw just the nail
to the Clippers what a good curl now
let’s do some bite work puppies love to
bite on things so what you’re gonna want
to do right now with a young puppy just
teach them how to give things to you so
I’m gonna let this puppy get really
excited about the toy let her chew on it
and bite it now watch this I’m gonna say
drop she doesn’t know what dropped mean
so she holds on I’m gonna offer some
food good girl
what a good girl good you’re excited
again let her bite it a little tog draw
good girl give her some food very nice
get the toy again good girl
drop good girl and we’re gonna end with
just letting her have the toy what a
good girl while I hold her to show her
that I can hold you and doesn’t mean
necessarily that I’m taking things away
from you always good girl all right
but maybe forming a session but I’ve
taught her a lot of things already one
that doing things like sit and lay down
that’s fun for you I’ve taught her that
nail clippers are not scary so that
later on when we actually do need to
clip the dog’s nails that she has a
positive Association of those nail
clippers also taught her that given
thanks to me is a good thing because
I’ve been taking the toy giving her food
and then give her back the toy so these
are just a few things that you can go
ahead and start implementing with your
puppy and I will see you in another
video
