Puppy Training Guide Dogs

Our experts answer common training questions and provide tips to improve and test your dog training skills.

Puppy training guide dogs. For two to three months the dogs are taught by our professional guide dog mobility instructors to safely guide someone through the complexities of pedestrian travel. With clicker training you can easily and effectively teach your dog all kinds of basic and advanced commands and tricks. Clicker training a common form of positive reinforcement is a simple and effective dog training method. These families or individuals ensure that our new puppy recruits get the best possible care in a loving home environment while receiving necessary training.

Nurturing puppies as they grow in to guide dogs. Dog training guide 2 crate training your puppy the ultimate guide to crate training to take you from the very first day with pippa s unique crate training schedule chart and detailed training exercises. Petting or showing excitement and saying good job may be all you need for basic puppy training. Keep training sessions short when training a basic cue keep the sessions short about 5 minutes each and try to average a total of 15 minutes per day.

Unique abilities of guide dogs. Puppy walkers play a vital role in the early socialisation and education of guide dogs. They then head off to a training centre to begin their specialised training. For 70 years the guide dog foundation has been training puppies to be guide dogs for the blind and visually impaired.

There is also plenty of information on what to do when things don t quite go to plan. Our guide dog training program maximizes the use of positive reinforcement methods including science based clicker training. Whether young or old all dogs can benefit from learning some basic commands. Our guides can help you with the basics of how to train your dog but we also recommend dog training classes especially for more advanced methods such as clicker training.

Although it is still fine to train your dog without clicker training many people find it helpful. Guide dogs for the blind will support you throughout the entire process step by step to help you reach the important milestones. At a young age the dogs are introduce. Introduction to puppy raising at eight weeks of age our guide dog pups are placed in the community with volunteer puppy raisers.

You will need to care for feed and train the puppy. The pup is returned to one of our two campuses for formal guidework training when they are 15 months of age or older.