12 week old Lab/mix puppy training questions. 1st time owner.?

I have a nice shed with windows and electricity for a/c %26amp; heat.I have a doggy house inside it with cedar wood bedding on one side where it now pees and poops.I got him from a area where he was left, right at six weeks.I have taken him to get required shots and feed him well.I work 9to5 monday thru friday and i am off on the weekend.I let him come out when im get off work%26amp; play around where he pees in the yard 2.My house is gated all around.I bring him in the house sometimes and take him out to the area i want him to pee in, thats going ok sometimes. I had him in a box when i first got him and put it in the house but he cried when he couldn't see me from the box, so i took him outside to the empty clean shed.I want him tranined not to pee when in house,I got him 4 protection at night so he'll be outside then and while im at work.I dont know how to train him 2 come to me or stay.in house, he stays on his blanket hisself.I need him to stay inside my gate especially when im pulling car in

12 week old Lab/mix puppy training questions. 1st time owner.?
Getting a doggy door for the shed would be a good start...that way ur puppy can go outside to go to the bathroom. As for keeping him inside the yard, there are two ways to do it. One would be to start training him how to stay...and then slowly teach him that when the gate opens, he is supposed to sit and stay. This will take a lot of work and training time....and if you are a first time owner, you may want to consider obedience courses to teach you how to train him. At the very least, buy a book. Make sure you are using a method of "positive reinforcement". The other way to keep him in the yard is with invisible fencing. It is a wire that you run under the ground all the way around your yard, which relays a signal to a receiver on the dogs collar. If the dog steps over the wire, the collar will give them an electrical shock. This also requires training to teach them to understand the system. There is no easy way.
Reply:you should take the dog to obiedience school.:)


in my opinion dogs are for protection, but should be loved unconditionally their entire life long and should have a companion by their side their whole life, another dog? child?


thats just my opinion. that seems liek a very nice garage/shed. it seems like adequate shelter for a dog. but would you want to be locked up in a small shed all day? or would you want a whole house to roam around? dogs can protect a house form the insode or outside. sometimes it is better for them to be inside guarding it so they can chase the bad peopel away.





if it is out side it may be able to fend off bad guys. but also, the bad people may not be afraid of dogs and act very friendly. a dog, if in the house, would easily be able to sense a robbery.





and please dont train your dog to be vicious! is ist he WORST thing you can do to adog. they have little human contact, become very mean to everyone, including innocent peopel that ome into contact with it. it can be very dangerous. impossible to train, and not a good dog to live with. and animal/ dog fights are illegal. and dangerous. if you dog is visious enough (like a dog right dpwn the sreat form me was) it will be taken away and put into quarentene.





this dog ran out form the yard it was in and attacked my friend's dog. the dog that was attacked had a large laceration down the entire back leg and had to get stitches.


the family either is paying for the bill of the hurt dog, or my friend's fmaily is going to sue them.





visious dogs are not good in many ways.they will not be loyal to you, and will not protect the house for you, it may protect it because it feels as if its top dog and no one else can be. and can hurt you and others. nice calm playful dogs are nice, and loyal and WILL protect your house.
Reply:Serious question, if you got a dog for protection, don't you want him to protect you, your family %26amp; your house? To me that means keeping the dog in the house. A guard dog in the yard is only guarding the yard.





Given some time, the dog will stop crying in his crate in the house. I can only imagine how lonely he's feeling out in a shed.





Plus, housebreaking will be much easier with the dog living in the house.
Reply:You should take him to obedience classes for training. But it's going to be hard for him to bond with you and want to protect you when he's shut outside by himself most of the time. He'll protect his yard, but he won't necessarily protect you and your house.
Reply:Doggie door in the shed will be a big plus. But in the mean time, I would also strongly suggest that you find a 'puppy sitter'. Perhaps a trusted neighbor or nearby relative that can come by and exercise your puppy or at least let him out to pee and play in your fenced area for about 40 -60 min. every day. This would also help socialize your puppy and make him a much more stable dog as an adult. Being confined and alone for 4 or more hours at one stretch is asking a WHOLE LOT of a puppy, especialy 5 days out of the week!
Reply:fisrt of all I hope you NEVER leave your dog or anyone elses outside while you're at work, there are so many missing dogs now a days because of this its untrue!!


It also isn't fair to leave him alone for hours while you work, dogs aren't designed to be alone, they're pack animals.





Once you have consisdered that I would say to house train him use a word that he'll recognise with going to the wee like "Wee wee!" or somthing and every time you think he needs to go or starts crouching take him outside and say the word, soon he'll get the hang of it ;)





Dog chocolate drops work a treat too and the odd bit of ham. Don't give him human treats though or antyhing bizzare like coke Ok. Trust the consiquences are BAD! lol
Reply:He's probably going to get pretty big so you might want to consider adding a run outside so he can go outside and let go of some energy when ever he want, but like 4 feet tall =/

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