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Let’s dive in with the three important things to remember and use to your advantage with training your new puppy:

1.Use your pup’s food for training!

Your puppy’s food is a phenomenal resource and one of the best tools you can use to train your puppy!

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In those early puppyhood months, having your puppy work for their food is a super easy way to get and hold their attention on you, rewards them for doing so, and creates a positive association with looking to you for direction!

At The Puppy Academy, we have our students bring their own lunch to school with the food they eat at home, and we use that meal for their training sessions.

It’s also part of the foundation for our Online Training School. In both programs, you’ll often hear us recommending our pup parents keep a treat pouch on or near them at all times in the beginning weeks with their new pup at home.

(Don’t worry, you can and will wean off as they get older!) Having access to your pup’s food comes in so handy for redirecting them away from something they’re doing that you don’t want them to do, getting them to come to y

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