Thread: I want a PUPPY
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Old 04-11-2002, 03:17 AM  
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yepyep. Make sure he knows you're the boss.

Personally, I do stuff like take his toys away, take his food away, roll him on his back and make him show me his belly til I say he can stop, pick him up and hold him on his back up in the air...stuff like that.

When he's little you have to do all kinds of stuff to reinforce the idea that you're the dominant one, and he's the lesser one. It seems mean taking his little toy away when he's 15lbs and all cute and adorable when he's a puppy, but when he's bigger and weighs 110 lbs and is chewing on something he found and you can just take it out of his mouth to find out what it is without him growling at you because he thinks you're challenging his authority, you'll be happy.

Crate train him, too. That should be a mandatory thing for all puppies.
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