Train Puppy to like stairs and Steps

0:02 oh when you first get your puppy home man i don't care if it's a seven week old puppy you can get him to start going up and down the steps that's important so bowser hesitated at the bottom steps but then came right up no problem but now he's hesitating at the top and doesn't want to go down the step good that way you can see what i'm going to do here and what i'm going to do is sort of like just sort of bring them along you know don't let the puppy sit there and like you know mull it over no we're going down the steps you'll be okay just sort of bring the dog on with the leash and be done with it do you see what i'm saying you don't know how many times it's a six month old dog and i'm training them to go up and down the steps don't get wrapped up into the emotional state of the dog because the dog's emotional state is nothing like the

0:47 emotional state of a human okay see bows he's being good so let's let's get him to go down the steps we're not we're not gonna sit here and plead with them i'm just going to be come on bounce come on come on buddy see how i don't want to go come on buddy here here come on there you go you got it you got it come on there you go come on buddy come on let's go come on mouse come on you got it you got it come on there you go you got it come on brother come on come on guys there you go you got it come on come on buddy there you go come on come on bowser come on buddy there you go good boy good boy come on battles

1:32 come on come on you got it balls come on bowser you got it come on so see just just get him walking see his tail's up it's wagging he's picking it up it's about 10 steps and he's sort of got it do you see what i'm saying see he's walking down the steps good boy bowser come on you got it dude come on brother come on little bowser come on you got it dude there you go good boy good boy there you go good boy yes that's a good boy see now next time there won't be any hesitation or if there's a little hesitation it'll be less he did it you did it brother

2:20 come on bowser something else about bowser that's very important is that i changed his collar and i have a really fat collar on him i do not recommend harnesses at any stage of a dog's life unless a dog has serious medical issues puppies you're not gonna hurt their trachea they're not gonna as long as you have a real fat stiff wide collar on them if you use one of those cat collars or puppy collars yeah you're gonna cause problems you will hurt the dog's trachea but i don't recommend using a harness now look at look at bowser's collar and look at how fat this thing is do you see how fat that is not a nice little nose but this is a collar for an adult dog see how fat that

3:06 is that's a collar that i cut down i i cut it down it would have fit you know a 65 70 pound dog but i cut it down and then i put new holes in it so that i can put it on puppies so if you have a puppy and and you know don't use a harness harnesses promote pulling and bad behaviors just go i bought this thing at pet petco or petsmart something like that just go buy something like that and then just i you know it's even longer than i need because i don't know what size puppy's coming but just cut it down and and put holes in it i think i used a nail and smacked it on a piece of wood see

3:51 bowser say hello i hate trump i can't stand him he's the worst president ever this this is very important this is one of those things that if you got a puppy coming right if you're going to go pick up your puppy you need to get stuff like i was getting paper towels and stuff like that another thing that you need to do is get a proper collar for the for the puppy and a proper collar is not one of those little tiny puppy collars or cat collars that will hurt your dog's trachea use a big fat heavy heavy leather collar heavy plastic works too like if you have a um some of these larger e-collars come with plastic collars those things work pretty good

4:37 and you can put a hole in those by heating up the nail use a blow torch heat the nail up and just melt the hole into it that works too but don't use these shitty little cat collars and puppy collars on a puppy that will hurt your dog seriously we will have no problems with bowels right bowser trump is the worst goddamn president in the world he's horrible kane he's a smart dog he's clearly very smart you're damn right i'm smart look at bowser bowser wowser look at bowser he's so cute

5:24 here's another thing you can do to get the dog going down the steps is let them get in the middle of the steps right and then you're going to go back down i'm sending that message follow me dog come on mouse come on buddy you got it there you go good boy yeah he's got it now he's he's good good boy the combination of the labrador and the poodle it works it does it's a working dog come on come on come on don't hesitate let's go come on come on buddy no come on up there you go good boy when they stop like that you keep going that's what the leash is for just bring the dog along and they pick it up real quick if you sit there and wear oh look the dog doesn't want to go down the steps

6:10 you're going to be doing that you know pleading with the dog you're sending the incorrect message to the dog you're not going to hurt the puppy okay and the puppy just doesn't get it show the puppy that it's not going to get hurt going down the steps it's that simple right bowser now i got to put the camera down because i'm going to make bowser start sitting before when we come to doors so i got to put the camera down sit good boy sit good boy sit that's a good boy sit sit that's very nice bowser

6:56 i still hate trump he's gonna pick this up quick sit good boy remember when you first start teaching the dog a command you can say it repetitively but once they learn the command you don't say it back to back so in other words if you say sit and the dog doesn't sit it's sit it doesn't it doesn't sit you say no and repeat the command so sit no sit do you understand it's got to be it's got to be in that cadence it you know and don't don't repeat the command now with the exception of like if i'm adding new stuff in okay like say i was gonna have teach bowser to hold this door open but it was already sitting real good but i'm injecting another

7:42 thing for him to do i might say sit sit with my hand out okay i hope that makes sense he's still sitting good boy bowser he's freaking cute he looks like a little pooh bear no sit no bowser sit good good boy he's gonna pick this up just fine it's cute so it's been a few hours and we've been going outside and he's been going down the steps he's probably not going to hesitate at all this time are you bowser come on bowser let's go let's see come on buddy no it comes right down he's not he's not a heel but he's coming down the steps there you go

8:28 get over here dude here get over there there you go that's perfect dude nice job bowser come on buddy let's go there you go problem solved he'll be running down him by tomorrow seriously it's real quick if you just send the correct message don't get wrapped up into the door oh look he's afraid that just get the dog going down the steps you know don't be afraid dog i'm doing it you know if i told you to do it dog don't be afraid that's the approach to take i'm telling you this way do you understand because the other way when you're pleading with the dog they're in this like fear state for a long period

9:14 it becomes their general behavior that they're sort of fearful and be fearful of what the freaking steps get the dog going down the steps up and down the steps just how i showed you use the leash come on let's go look he's he's raring to go do you understand it's very important you get you get the puppy at seven weeks they can go down the steps they can go up the steps but you you have to just take just work with them man just don't let the don't let the dog back up a lot keep it going forward you know hurry hurry i got him to pee outside that's good and we're looking for him to dump he's probably not gonna dump until later but

9:59 he's doing great little bowser come on bowser