Train Your Puppy in 8 Weeks: A Positive Guide for Dog Owners (CompanionHouse Books) Step-by-Step Dog Training Book - Basic Commands, Tips, Tricks, Sensible Advice, and Positive Training Techniques - Softcover

Charlotte Schwartz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1621872246 ISBN 13: 9781621872245

Publisher: CompanionHouse Books, 2025

Synopsis

The week-by-week training guide every new puppy owner needs!

• Puppy training for the critical first eight weeks a puppy spends in their new home, perfect for fosters, breeders, and new puppy owners
• Positive training methods organized week-by-week with lessons to house-train and teach your puppy basic commands, obedience, and more
• Updated edition includes content on housetraining, collar conditioning, and human-canine roles, as well as modernized terminology
• Author Charlotte Schwartz had trained dogs for over 40 years, was an award-winning author, and is known for being a trailblazer in positive dog training
• Tech editor Susan Ewing has updated the book to enhance Schwartz's proven methods with new perspectives, exercises, and techniques to help acclimate puppies to their new family

Focusing on the first eight weeks that a puppy spends in the new owner's home, this puppy training guide walks the owner through the lessons to teach one week at a time, offering common sense solutions to obedience and housetraining problems along the way.

Sidebars throughout the text offer useful tips and alternative methods on how to train a puppy and teach lessons, all of which were originated by Schwartz in her puppy classes over the decades. From the first week — during which the puppy is taught to sit and stay — to the eighth week — devoted to teaching the puppy to retrieve and a trick or two — this puppy primer is the best canine educational tool available!

This updated positive guide to puppy training was written by much-loved author and puppy-class instructor Charlotte Schwartz. The late Charlotte Schwartz had trained dogs for over 40 years and was a popular, award-winning author whose no-nonsense style of writing and training comes forth on every page of this introductory guide and dog training book. New to this edition is updated and modernized content on housetraining, collar conditioning, human and canine roles, and terminology.

A positive training guide for puppies (and their owners!), this week-by-week training handbook is a must for every family that brings home a new puppy!

About this title

About the Author

Charlotte Schwartz was an author, trainer, and behaviorist.

Susan M. Ewing has written close to a dozen dog books. She writes a bi-weekly pet column for The Post-Journal of Jamestown, New York, and has written for many national cat and dog publications.

From the Back Cover

THE NEW PUPPY OWNER'S GUIDE
to Proven Positive Training Techniques

Nothing brings more joy or happiness to a home than the arrival of a new furry friend. Your puppy's arrival is also the time you begin training. Noted canine trainer and journalist Susan Ewing shares new methodologies and techniques to Charlotte Schwartz's original best-selling puppy training book in this week-by-week training guide for new puppy owners. Before starting your eight-week training course, you'll learn why a puppy is most receptive to training before they are 16 weeks of age, a variety of tips for motivating your puppy throughout training, as well as a wealth of insights on achieving success in house-training. With this understanding, you and your puppy are ready to begin your eight-week course to training success. From week one, where you'll learn the secrets of training success — including the sit and stand command and incorporating your puppy's toys into their training — through week eight, where you'll learn to teach your dog to retrieve, alter bad habits, and how your dog's memory affects learning and your methods of teaching, Ewing will guide you through each element of training with expert instruction, practical tips, and fun tricks to teach your pup each step of the way. Like anything in life, success will come from repetition, patience, and celebrating each milestone, so enjoy these eight weeks as you build a bond with your puppy that will last a lifetime!

Positive training techniques and commands include:

• Sit and sit-stay
• Stand and stand-stay
• Down and down-stay
• Socializing
• How to behave around strangers
• Heel and leave-it
• Sit-stay at mealtime
• Basic agility training
• Responding when called
• Weaning off food rewards
• How to retrieve
• Altering bad habits
• Discovering how your dog's behavior affects his learning

Edition details

• Publisher: CompanionHouse Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1621872246
• ISBN 13: 9781621872245
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Susan Ewing