Puppy training 5 months

Your baby is 5 months old, and you intend to seriously take up training. How to start training a 5 month old puppy and how to properly organize the training of a 5 month old puppy?

Features of training a puppy 5 months

At 5 months, many puppies begin the so-called “transitional age”. And this becomes a kind of litmus test of your relationship with your pet.

If you did everything right before then, you will survive this period without problems, and the puppy will remain obedient and motivated to work with you. If there were mistakes in an earlier period, they will come out, sometimes in the most unexpected way.

Given this, it becomes even more important when training a 5-month-old puppy to strictly follow the rules of training.

Puppy training 5 months: where to start?

If you have just started training a pet, it is very important to know where to start training a puppy for 5 months. However, the beginning of training is the same for any dog, regardless of age. This is acquaintance with markers, work on the development of motivation (playing, food, social) and contact with the owner, switching attention and changing the excitation-inhibition modes. The first commands are most often complex, call and place.

Remember that the training of a 5-month-old puppy should be based on 2 methods:

1. Guidance and positive reinforcement.  
2. Shaping.

If you are confused and do not know where to start training a puppy for 5 months and how to train a 5-month-old puppy in general, you can use our video courses on self-training a dog with humane methods.