INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Volume I of Kennel 101’s Train Your Dog series!
Kennel 101 offers multifaceted dog training, with the core being the development of a companion dog. Our goal is to help you create the best possible relationship with your companion dog.
It is important not to see your dog as simply existing in your world but rather as a separate creature with it’s own needs, wants, desires capabilities and drives. Only by recognizing the difference between the person and the dog can you fully enter into a caring working relationship. We are time and time again amazed by the capabilities, loyalty and faithfulness of our companion canine friends.
This volume covers the basics of crate training, house training and puppy biting and chewing issues for puppies and adult dogs. In future volumes of Know Your Dog we look at the dogs senses, ways of avoiding aggression problems, as well as concrete ways of using positive reinforcement to get the behaviors you desire. We hope that these books help provide the basis to creating a solid caring relationship between you and your canine companion.
Kennel 101
Train Your Dog!
Vol. I
Table of Contents
Crate training pg. 1
Uses for the crate pg. 2
What size crate pg. 5
10 day crate training program pg. 5
Closing the crate door pg. 7
Housetraining pg. 9
General rules pg. 9
Feeding schedule pg. 10
Schedule pg. 10
Use the command pg. 11
Shrink the den pg. 11
Frequently Asked Questions pg. 11
Puppy biting and chewing pg. 21
Why do they bite? pg. 21
Puppies bite and mouth to explore pg. 22
Puppy moves into home pg. 23
Teach soft mouth pg. 24
Principle of Substitution pg. 24
Learn NOT to over-stimulate pg. 25
Teething pg. 25
Chewing reduces anxiety pg. 26
Separation anxiety and boredom pg. 26
Kennel 101
Sue
Vogt was born in
She and Ken moved to the
Sue often functions as a
roving photographer during Ken’s Saturday morning dog training group sessions
and many of her photos have been used in this volume.
She and Ken enjoy nature and wildlife photography. They divide labor in
their photography endeavors, with both taking the photographs, Ken doing the
developing and printing, and Sue the matting and the framing.
Sue is intimately
involved in the care and training of her dogs. She too is an avid fishing woman
combining life in the
Sue and Ken live on Big
Pine Key.
Ken Araujo
was born in
He has 17 years
experience in law enforcement in New England and in Florida, and has worked in
parole and probation, served as a sworn deputy, been a police trainer and a K9
officer, and has trained patrol dogs, drug dogs and bomb dogs. He holds numerous
trainer and instructor trainer certifications in police defensive tactics as
well as canine training.
He has also served as a
pastoral minister in congregations in
He and his canine Ronny
retired from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office in 1996. He now devotes
himself to full-time training of companion dogs in the private sector.
Ronny devotes himself to dog biscuits.
Ken is also involved in
nature and wildlife photography. He has been active in local art guilds and
participated in seasonal art shows in the Keys.
He also does pet photography, portraits, Christmas and specialty cards,
and his work can be seen in many local
businesses. He is as you might
expect an avid blue water fisherman.
He has two children.
Ken lives with his wife, Sue Vogt, and their dogs on Big Pine Key.
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