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Training Your Westie, Obedience[Index] [Puppies] [Housebreaking] [Paper Training] [Obedience] [Keywords] [Walking] [Behavior] [Toys] [Barking] [pups] Your Westie will want to run around and investigate everything and everywhere. Training is a most important part of caring for your dog. An untrained dog could get itself killed running across a busy road in pursuit of a cat. You should start training your Westie from the moment it is brought home at around 8 weeks old. You should teach your Westie some simple words to start with, say the appropriate word several times while the puppy maintains that position. It will rapidly learn to associate the word with what it is doing. At the same time praise the pup to let it know you are pleased with what it is doing. Your Westie will quickly learn what praise words like 'good dog' mean. If the puppy does anything you do not want it to do, say 'NO' but only when you catch it actually misbehaving. Never discipline the puppy even minuets after it has done something wrong. It will not associate your discipline with a previous action. Set aside 5 minuets a day to start with then continue once a week to rehearse and reaffirm the commands. Find out if there are any basic training classes in your city, They can be fun and are a help especially if your Westie was obtained when at an older age. You can show off your Westie and make many new friends with a common interest.
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