Hey, let's see how fast we can get this
on before you pee. Oh, is it for biting? Wow, this is going well.
You're like a bucking Bronco. Hold on. Will you hopefully over the vlog, you'll see this go a
little bit better. Now, the very first thing you need to do when
you have a puppy is take them outside in the morning and you guys are gonna
spend the day with us on this little guy's very first day home. Now I'm carrying him right now because
I don't want him to have an accident. So I have a little line on him.
I am going to put him down. Oh, good boy. Hurry up. This is our new puppy vlog. Now as a
dog trainer, for more than 20 years, I have raised and trained a lot
of dogs already. In this series, I'm gonna share with you some tips and
tricks that I've learned along the way. And I bet many of them you've
never heard of I'm Kayl McCann. This is eight-week-old mixed
breed puppy, Five Alive. Welcome back to McCann Dogs. We're back inside after having
our first little bathroom break.
And I'm gonna do some
training with his food, but I'd like to sometimes just
get down on the ground and, and play with the puppy a little bit. The next couple days are really gonna
be focused about bonding with the puppy and just getting comfortable with
the household and with us notice that constant biting at this point. So this is really normal for all of
you who have puppies that bite it's pretty darn normal. And this is something that I absolutely
am going to address in a few days, but I actually don't correct them for
biting the very first day that they come home or first couple days, because he
doesn't really have a relation.
Oh, what? It, he doesn't really have a relationship
with me quite yet. And in fact, over the next couple days when I start
his training and I start to manage him and, and you know. Hi, come here. Some of the biting will actually naturally
subside because he's gonna start to sort of view me as a little bit different,
but we will address it. Just not, not quite yet. We have a bit of a busy day today and
the very first thing that we wanna do in the morning with the puppies after
we've gone outside and had our bathroom break, we're gonna do feeding pretty
soon, but we wanna get in some exercise.
We wanna get him moving because we
wanna be able to put him in the crate, do what we need to do and not feel guilty
about doing that. Also, if he's tired, he's way more. Oh, he's crazy.
He's way more likely to go and nap. Now. we start to teach the puppies to
play tug right from the beginning. So we have this great long tug toy, which keeps our hands out of the way
and not to get nipped and bit quite yet.
But we're just let, 'em play fun again. This is all great ways to exercise
your puppy. It's also a good bond. It's teaching him that like doing
things with us as fun. And when, hopefully he goes with an crate to
nap for a little bit. We'll be happy. We do this. Now. We need to talk about exactly
what a schedule means for a puppy. Sometimes people get really hung up on
schedules and having to have the puppy do things at specific times,
how long to do everything. It's really not about having
a specific rigid schedule. What I need to do is teach him
how to adapt to my schedule, but at the same time, I need
to start learning about him. I need to start learning about, you
know, when he's gonna go to the bathroom, how long it takes, you know, for how long
can I train him for before I go away? How long is he gonna settle in his
crate? While he's asleep. Good boy. That's a little bit better. You know,
that's really what we mean by schedule.
It's about quality. Not necessarily,
not necessarily quantity. What I like to do with my puppies is
I like to take advantage of times when they're hungry and I, oh my
goodness. And they want their food. So with a bit of his breakfast, I'm gonna actually do a little bit of
his training now the very first day, usually what I'll do. Oh my
goodness. You're hungry. Little man. Is I'll start to work on things like
teaching him what the word yes means or what his name is gonna be. So we're
gonna start off with just some yes. And some name, I'm gonna grab a
couple of his pieces of food here, and I might just throw the bowl there
so he can't get at it. And again, I need to make sure I have good timing.
So I'm gonna say yes. And then feed. Yes, then feed. Yes. Then feed.
Now. I don't really care what he's doing when
he, when I feed him at this point. Yes. Good boy. Yes. Oh, good boy. Yes. Hey, now I'm gonna work on
his name. Good boy. Five. Yes. Now his name is five alive. We we're probably just gonna
call him five most of the time. So I'm just gonna switch between
saying Five Alive. Oh my gosh. You're like a little jumping bean I
guess switch between saying Five and Five Alive. Good boy. Okay.
Careful. Five Alive. Yes. Five Alive. Yes. Good boy. Five. Yes. Good five. Yes. Good boy. When I'm rewarding him, I'm backing
up and I'm rewarding him towards me, but I'm never wanna do is yes. And
feed him for looking elsewhere. It's always gonna be Five. Yes.
Drawing him in nice and close. The other thing I like to do with my
puppies, and this is a bit different, is I really like in the early stages to
encourage the puppy to get really close, Five? Yes.
So I would actually
purposely lure him up close to me. Now this is something that I'm gonna be
able to control later by teaching him an off command. But I want him to learn that getting as
close to me as possible is a good thing, because I'm gonna need to take a
hold of his collar or lift him up. And I don't want him running
away or deking away from me. I might even get my hands in his collar.
Good boy. Get my hands on his body. Oh, you're just the best puppy.
I wanna condition it. These are all really good
things. Yes, we done. Usually what I'm gonna do is I will use
the majority of his breakfast or like half of his breakfast for
training the other half. I'll actually put him in the crate because
I also wanna teach him that going in the crate is a really good thing as well. And the easiest way to do
that is to condition him.
That food is good. And then, because he's now been outside,
he's had a pee and a poo.
He's had some exercise. He's
had some mental stimulation, physical stimulation
now. Oh, good boy. Yes. If you wanna go in there all about
yourself, I'll give you a reward. But that way he can go into
his crate now for, you know, a couple hours while Ken and I need to
get things done that that we need to, and then we'll get him out again.
So all in all, I don't know, he's been out of his crate now and
doing stuff for maybe a half an hour, I think.
And then we'll go to the
crate for probably a couple hours. And then you'll see, today is gonna
be a lot of in and out, in and out, in and out all day long as we get
comfortable with our schedule. And I'll shut the door. We'll see how that goes. Well,
now that we've done that, I need to clearly be ready for
the day because I look like this. So I'm gonna make myself a
tea. Now he's in the crate. You're probably gonna hear him whining
in the background a little bit and I'm not really gonna panic. I know he's gone
to the bathroom, he's gone pee and poo. He's had exercise. He's
had a lot of these things, so he's really is ready for a
nap now. So for day number one, I'm actually just going
to ignore the crying.
He's not used to going in a
crate and being separated. Also, he just spent all this great time
doing these lots of these fun things. Sometimes it takes puppies, a bit of a, a moment to kind of settle and switch
from like one activity to the next. So I'm just gonna let him whine a
little bit. Now, if it carries on for, you know, more than just a couple minutes, I will probably take him outside and
see if he has go to the bathroom, but I'm gonna do it in a very neutral
way.
I might come up, take him outside, not go, oh, you're so
cute. I love you so much. Like reward him for making noise.
But I'm suspecting that if, you know, we just kind of
keep doing what we're doing. He's probably just gonna
settle and have a nap. And then when he wakes up
from the nap, and makes noise. I'll let him out at that point because
that's teaching him that when he have to go to the bathroom, let me know, indicate
to me that you have to go outside.
But it's about the
schedule and the timing, knowing the appropriate times to actually
address things or just kind of let them go. And for now, I'm gonna make
this tea, which I desperately need. And we're gonna just listen to
puppy whining, unfortunately. Now, thankfully, because of all that stuff that we did
this morning has been sleeping soundly for about an hour and a half. So I actually am going to go against
one of the rules that we talk about, and that is never wake a sleeping puppy. But the thing is I have a busy work week
coming up and he's gonna have to kind of go along with me. And I have some
work have to get done in just a moment. And him sleeping now is not
helpful. I missed you so much. So, I need to carry him. I'm gonna take him a little bit further
down the driveway because he gets cold, easy. He wants to go run
under the under the car.
I think because it's warm there
and that's not super safe. So let's see what happens
here. Hurry up. Again, he has no idea what hurry
up means. Oh my God, you couldn't be cuter with
that coat on. Hurry up. The coat's proving to be a little
bit of a distraction, poor puppy. We're throwing so many
things there. Good poor boy. Hurry up. Hurry up.
Hurry up. Hurry up. Good. So remember you can start to teach your
dog to go to the bathroom on command by just simply saying the word over and
over and over again as they're already going. Yeah, there's my boy. Good boy. I think he thinks his don't work because
his coat's on there. There we go. There's a guy. Yay. Do you see, what's really great about puppies is
naturally when I push him away gently his natural instinct is to come
back to me knowing that, I can actually start to work on
getting him comfortable running to me. So if he learns, clapping means, see how, how he's just automatically
coming back on my direction.
Yeah. And that pushing away just
encourages it to happen more. And this is the start of teaching him
to have a really good recall. Okay. Ow, and that coming back to me is
lots of fun. So I think so far, even though it's only halfway through
the day or partway through the day, hi love, love. The schedule
is going really well. Now one thing that we've
done intentionally this
week or today in the next couple days is we have changed our work
schedule to be able to work from home. And this was to give us an opportunity
to spend a little bit more time with him, with his great training and just kind of
get him set up and be comfortable with a few things before we
actually have to go to work.
So if you have the opportunity to set
yourself up to be home with your puppy for the first couple days, I think
you'll find that hugely helpful. Now my whole goal for this puppy in these
first couple days home is to make sure I set 'em up for success. There's a couple management tools
that I wanna tell you about. That's gonna make a big difference.
Number one is gonna be baby gates.
We are actually just restricting most
of his access to the kitchen at this point. So there's a baby gate on either
door. So he can't just sneak out. If we happen to not be watching
closely, I have a crate in here for him. That way if we decide to be in and out, he's getting comfortable right from the
beginning with us being in the same room and also with us not being in
the same room while he's crated. And then also we have this little long
line that he's gonna be wearing in the house whenever he's not in the
crates, we have good control. And I just ordered this for
a couple bucks off Amazon. I cut the handle off of the end so
that it wasn't gonna get caught on things. And I'm just gonna
let him drag this around. Obviously he thinks it's a chew toy
right now, but we'll get there in time.
So I I do have to get,
get some stuff done. So I'm gonna actually just do a
little bit of play with him again. I wanna kind of tire him out, do a few fun things with him before he
goes back and is crate. Okay, let's play. We just were practicing. And we were
doing just letting him chill for a second. Ken and I were having a conversation and
he just tried to sneak away and I saw him get on the dog bed
underneath the counter there. And he started to spin around. So I'm
positive that he has to have a poo, so we need to get him outside. And again, because I'm watching and I'm
supervising I'm right here. I was able to kind of recognize that sign. And this is the beginning stages of
teaching him that going to the bathroom inside the house. Is just not
an option. So, oh, we go, okay. We aborted on the coat this time
because I think we don't need that extra distraction.
In fact, I aborted
mission on the coat too. It's actually not that
cold out here. Hurry up. Now we've been out here for many
minutes and he still hasn't gone. I know he has to go poop because
he was just about to go inside. He's distracted, he's cold.
He's all of these things. What a lot of people do is they make the
mistake of going in the house and just letting their puppy run around.
And
then they end up having an accident. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take
him inside and I'm actually gonna put him immediately, very calmly, very happily. I'm gonna be put him in the crate and
then we're just gonna wait a few moments. And I suspect he's probably gonna whine
and then we're gonna come on back out and we're gonna try it again.
And this is gonna be the process that
happens until we finally get a poo. So let's go for it. So he's whined a little bit the
crates and putting him back in there, but it's sort of like, it's very light. And what I think what a lot of people
would do is they would just rush him back out right away. But I'm actually
gonna wait a little bit more. I want a little bit more from
him before I let him out. To me. This sound of cry is
just more like unsettled. You've just put me in the crate and
I don't wanna be here. It's not, I have to poo let me out. Well, see
we're starting to get a little bit more. So I'm just gonna give it a little bit
more time and then I'm gonna take him out. Cause what I don't necessarily wanna do
is go out and in out and in a million times I need to kinda play, play
it right with the right time.
We're. Gonna try again. Yeah. You're
making me work for this buddy. Who knew somebody would get so
excited about a dog pooping. We're actually looking
a little bit tired now. So I don't know how
well this is gonna work. Hurry. Hurry up You're the best pooping puppy in the
whole world. He says, take me inside. It's cold up here now. I
don't know if you saw, Ooh, I don't know if you can kind of see
what's happening here. His instinct. Yes. Is to run away with the toy. He wants to play with it on his
own rather than play with me. So I have this line on. So every
time he goes to leave with it. So if I let go what's this can try
that pushing away thing I did outside. Good boy, come on to my
friend. Yay. But yes, if he decides to go in a
different direction, well, he can't do that because I
can stop him with the line. I want him to learn that when
you play like this involve me, it's much more fun when you play
with mom rather than on your own.
Now I'll give him opportunities to go
and play his own, but he'll do that. See? He's trying to get away again.
Yeah, there we go. There we go. And I can praise it when he comes in.
If I'm gonna let him play on his own, I would give him a bone
or a Kong or something to, to chew and go and play with on his own. But I'm not gonna let him go and play
independently with an item that's intended for us to play together. Oh, you're
vicious. Oh, you're vicious. Okay. So in terms of time, I probably played
active with him there for about, I don't know, five minutes, maybe,
maybe around five minutes. So not long. Now before we go back into our crate
again I'm gonna just take some of his breakfast, some of his kibble, and I'm just gonna work on something
a little calmer for his mind, a little problem solving.
Oh, there we go. So I've just switched to treats now and
I'm just gonna work on something like teaching him to go and lie on his bed. Now this is not something I would
ever expect him to be able to do, but we need to train
our puppies to do that. So you can start with that right
from the beginning. Hey pop. Look, I have look good. Yes. So I just lure him on the
bed. I can reward. Good. You kind of accidentally, defaulted into
it down. Oh, That worked out well. Yes. Good. So all the treats that he
gets are gonna be on the bed? Yes. Good. Good. Again. I'm
not saying any commands. I'm just getting him used
to the behavior. Good. And eventually I wanted to learn to stay
there until I tell him he can come off.
So right from the beginning, I'll
start to imply that. Okay. Yeah. Good goodbye. Good boy.
Okay. He doesn't know this, but because I'm setting him up in
a way that makes him do it right. He's learning to do it correctly from the
from the beginning. Okay. On your bed. Yeah. I read his body language. If he
looks comfortable, I keep feeding him. And then once I'm ready to
release him, I do. So before, so he went to get up there.
So I would say, okay, quite yet there he's comfortable. So no,
I'll say it. Okay. He almost beat me.
You almost beat me. I like your cute
little jump off the bed there, buddy. One of the reasons why I'm choosing
to end my little training session with something a little calmer, because if I was to play tug and do all
this wild and crazy stuff and then put him in the crate, I've
just left my puppy already, really high minded and excited. So it's gonna take him a
longer time to chill out, but you can see his his temperament and
his sort of energy level is a little calmer now because of what I've
switched to with my training, this is gonna set him up a little bit
better to actually be in a calmer mind frame, to go into the
crate and be settled. Now it's very possible since this is
his very first time here that when I put him in the crate, he might make a fuss.
Or he might cry again.
That's okay. We're simply just gonna keep working
through it. After all of this food though, I actually think I might take him outside
one more time and see if he'll he'll poo. And then I'll feel a little
bit better about putting him away. It's been a couple hours now since puppy's
been in his crate and I've gotten a lot of work done in two
hours, which is amazing. But now it's time to let the puppy out
again. Now you're probably thinking, oh my gosh, I have this new, all I
do is let the puppy outside all day.
But we have had zero accidents
today because I'm so diligent about taking him outside. That's so important. So if you can make sure that
when you're not supervising them, you're busy doing something else. They can be safely in their crate
having a nap, doing their thing. You're not gonna have any accidents and
you're not have to go watch all of our other videos on how to fixed
puppy training problems. So hopefully we can keep on this thing. Now he is way too little to
be doing stairs at this point. So I have carried him down the
stairs. I'm gonna place him down. I know he doesn't have to have a poo
cause he's already had one and I haven't fed him yet, which is
what we're about to do. So we're just looking for a pee
now. So I'm gonna place him down. I think it'll probably happen
quickly since he was just napping.
Yes. Good boy. Hurry
up. Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry up. Good. Once you started
getting into a bit of a rhythm, you can then start to anticipate
what you're looking for. Oh, do you want me to pick you
up cuz you're cold. Okay. you can start to anticipate
what you're going to do. I, I knew because of what he's already done
earlier in the day that he only had to pee in not poo. Now I can go inside and feel a little
bit more confident about what I'm doing. Okay. Puppy's cold.
We're going inside now. You'll see somebody is very excited
for lunch at this point. Yes he is. Now you'll notice that when
I'm giving him his meals, I'm not necessarily to is putting the
bowl in his crate or putting the bowl down in the kitchen and walking away. I'm
using this opportunity to teach him that.
I'm the one that brings
the good resources. I've also come into the living room
now, cuz I've done most everything. Earlier in the day in the kitchen, just to expose him to something
a little bit different. Now, literally this lesson today is learning
just to have a few manners around the food bowl. You can see
he is highly food motivated, which I'm super pumped about
by the way. Yes. Good boy.
So as soon as I bring the dog bowl
out, he like just goes bananas. There that's the puppy. So all I just do is reward him for
sitting calmly when the bowl's nearby and just learning to have
a little bit of patience. And if he gets up or if he makes a
mistake. I'll just help him once again.
The other thing too, is
all of this feeding and, and controlling the resources
helps him to learn that, you know, I'm a good leader, I'm in charge, but we're doing it in a really
non-confrontational way that helps build a stronger bond between the two of us. Now, how long should this
training session last? Well, I have a few minutes to spare here, so
I might just work for most of his lunch. And we're gonna try a few different things
to get this done. Oh, that was nice. Good boy. I missed it though. He
did a cute little back up. Hey, let's go this way. Maybe
we'll work on following. Yes. Yay. Oh, wow. Yes, that's it. Yes. Good boy.
A little dog trainer tip, is when you're first starting
to teach a puppy to lie down, try to do it on a surface. That's very comfortable for them to lie
on because he's a little bony hairless puppy, lying down on something soft. That's a soft surface is often
more inviting than a hard surface. Although although you can actually do the
opposite sometimes if they go halfway, if you're on a slippery surface, they can kind of slip the rest of the
way in position in order for you to reward. But in this
particular puppy's case, coming down on the carpet is a
little bit easier for him. Good boy. Look at that. Now he's holding
position. Good. Okay. Wow buddy. You're brilliant. Now I have a little bit of his breakfast
left and I have a few more minutes a spare. So what I'm gonna do for the last portion
of his lunch is I'm gonna build some value for the crate.
Oh
my gosh. Yes. Good boy. Yay. There we go. Now there's a couple
different ways you could do this. I could just let him eat. Oh
my gosh. Yes. Good boy. Sorry. I gotta take advantage of
these things. Yes. Good boy. I could do it a couple ways. I could put the food bowl right in the
back of the crate and let 'em eat in it just like I did before. Or I can
just play a little game like this. Where if you go anywhere near the
crate, you're gonna get a reward. Now I'm just throwing it on the bottom
of the crate so that on the tray of the crate there. So no, he comes
out. Oh, I try it again. So I need just toss it in
there. There we go. Yes. And I'm gonna feed him again
before he comes out. Good boy. Yes. And then I'm gonna start my
little permission game. Okay.
Yay. You try again. What's this get it's. You missed it. It's okay. I'll give
you one here. Good boy. Yes. Good. Okay. Okay. Good boy, man. Let's just, there we go. I gotta
drop it heavier so you can hear it. There's a big one. There's a big one. See
it. Oh, it's under your paw now. Okay, there we go. Okay. There we go. Good boy. I really want him to think just going
in the crate is a really great thing. You'll notice I'm not even worried
about closing the door at this point. This is his very first time ever playing
this little game with me. Good boy. My only rule is that the food and the
praise comes when you're inside the crate all four feet. Okay. Inside the
crate. And then again, I'm gonna say okay, to let him come out. He's no idea,
but any of this means as of yet, I'm just using the food to kind of
assist him so that he does it.
Well, there we go. Okay. Baby five
just woke up from his little nap. Do you know what time it is? He's back
outside your least favorite thing to do. Good to go. Hurry up.
Hurry up. Hurry up. Oh, hi. I just got Five out of his kennel. He's actually been sleeping
soundly for a little while. After our last little play session, he was in his crate and it enabled
me to actually go and take all, all of our other dogs out for a big hike, cuz they have been a little neglected
today. And while I was gone, Ken stayed home just to make sure
that if he whimpered in his crate, that he could take him out, which actually
did happen. So luckily we did that, but now it's time for dinner
for us and for the puppy. And what a lot of people don't realize
is that dinner time for your puppy is actually the beginning of
your nighttime schedule.
Click this card right here to see our
first night puppy schedule so that you can be prepared. So if you're looking for some specific
advice for your puppy and you wanna work with some of our McCann Dogs instructors, make sure you check out the
Puppy Essentials online course. The llink for that is in the description
below on that note. I'm Kayl. This is baby Five Alive, happy training..