When is it safe to walk a puppy outside
When Can I Take My Puppy For A Walk?
hi guys it's Ken steep and Kahle McCann
from McCann professional dog trainers
and welcome to another episode of our
dog walking training talk we just got
finished our dog walk for today with our
border collie rad and we thought we'd
take a little break and we wanted to
talk to you today one question we often
get asked by a lot of our students is
how long should I take my puppy for a
walk how long should my walks be when
I'm training my young puppy and kalsa
we've got a pretty good idea or a pretty
great answer for that question yeah I
get a set quite a lot actually and the
answer that I usually respond with is
you shouldn't really be walking your
puppy at this point so if you have a
brand new puppy to the family it's not
always necessarily the best idea to take
them for you know a half hour or 45
minute
there's still babies at this point still
growing we don't want to be putting like
that much impact on their bodies at this
point but more importantly when puppies
are that age our job as their handler
they're their new owner is to give them
the best experience as possible and
sometimes when they're very small they
are easily impressioned by things around
them whether it be loud noises or people
that you meet on the street or a garbage
pail blowing over or things like that
and those are good things to sort of get
your dog used to but not necessarily
while you're doing a walk you don't
actually want to be throwing a bunch of
big things at your puppy all at the same
time can be quite overwhelming
absolutely so a better thing to do is to
just sort of take them places and just
sort of hang out get them to give them
life experiences without requiring that
they sort of walk at your side and the
other thing too is it takes quite a long
time to teach your hook to walk you know
nicely at your side and sometimes it's a
good idea to start off with that type of
training nice and easy you know what we
usually do is practice up and down our
hallway we close all the doors and you
know walk up and down the hallway with a
bit of food on their nose helping them
out and then we might go around the
dining room table then we might progress
to the driveway and you know Mike we
might be out there for 20 minutes but we
don't physically necessarily go you know
really really far distance it's just a
little bit take a break a little bit
take a break until we see that the dogs
starting to to know what we want of them
you've got to keep things easy for those
pups
yeah and you need to ensure that you're
successful before you graduate to that
next challenge or whatever it is so some
great advice from Kelly can if this is
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for watching and happy trading
bye for now
who is placing the tree in the base of
your palms is where your fingers need a
hand there
cover with your thumb
and as he is sniffing and licking if
he's being gentle I'm gonna say yes
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