Training your bernese mountain dog.
Puppies!
Puppies nip, they are wild, loving, fun and crazy.
They also grow up very fast and it's important to teach and work with them when they are little. What we use is a crate for quiet time, when this is not for you, then a gated area that you can use for quiet time works too.
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Distract when they nip, toy in mouth, frozen washcloth, a nice bone, all with supervision.
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When they are not stopping and are just wild and crazy, quiet time, just like with kids, they need time to rest and cool off.
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Around little children I keep our pups on the leash, this way I train them to behave when kids are around but also have control over the children and teach them gentle and no running around pups.
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Another great thing we did with our pups and it worked very well was teaching gentle and touch, nose games etc.
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I will be posting some wonderful video's that a great friend and member of our bernerfamily has made over the years.
Thank you Eileen Blass for lessing us post your video's!
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Great tips and it is alway's nice to see things in action.
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Enjoy!
Doorway manners, we start our pups very young with this. For safety, we don't want anyone running out but also its nice manners.
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We had lots of questions and interest in therapy work with your berners , here is some great info what you need to work on with your berner.
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Nose work, I love mind games with our berners.
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