Got a tire her out so we can sleep all night!
It's likely that she's going to stir a little bit tonight and we're going to
have to deal with that. We're going to have to deal with that.
We're going to have to deal with that. Okay. It's been six hours.
It's some,
sometime in the morning and we just had our first peep,
although she's being quiet now. So I probably should let her out. Oh,
there we go. Okay girl, outside we go.
Good girl. Hurry up. Hurry up.
We had a pee it's 7:17 in the morning,
and what's really important is that if you're like me and this is not time for
you to get up, that you don't have a party and do play now.
So she's had a pee we're going to go back to bed for just a little while.
See if we can get her to settle and then we're going to get up and start our
day.
Good settle. Good girl.
Good morning.
It is now 8:30 AM and a little miss did so good.
Last night, we only had to get up one time. We like that good girl.
Now I think that has a lot to do with the type of day that we had yesterday.
We had so much fun.
She was super busy that it allowed her to really get a good night's sleep. Now,
if you want to see what we did with her very first day home,
I definitely encourage you to check out the first video of our series and the
link for that is in the description below. Oh, good morning to you. Now,
the first thing that we need to do is take her out for a pee,
but today you're going to hang out with me throughout the day,
and I'm going to show you guys how to balance your day with your puppy through
training, play,
how to get your own work done so that you have the most successful day possible.
And then hopefully we have a puppy that sleeps through the night. Once again,
I'm Kayl McCann. This is baby Euchre. Welcome back to McCann Dogs.
Okay. I'm going to start off with just doing a little bit of basic luring.
And I actually did this a little bit yesterday when we first brought her home,
but she hasn't even been home for 24 hours yet.
And yesterday she really had a hard time tracking the food today already.
This is just literally the second time I've done this.
She's like so much better. So already we're learning. Good girl. Oh,
and we offered a little sit again yesterday,
I just played around a little bit with a bit of luring with her good girl.
Yes. Good girl. Good.
And all of this stuff is literally just to condition her,
to prepare her for her training. Now,
the other thing I like to do when I first get puppies home is just work on
rewarding her for following me. Yes.
We can use some cute little noises to get to them moving. Yes.
She says, what do you want from me lady? Come on. Good.
Yeah. Hey,
good girl. Not really using her name yet. My,
my food bowl is gone now.
I also not really using her name yet because I don't really want to chance her
not responding. So I'm just gonna work on getting her to perfect. Thank you.
All right.
Just going to get her working on following me around and being rewarded.
Once I have a little bit more focus,
I could start to add the name back into that. What's this?
Yes. Good girl.
One of the biggest mistakes that new puppy owners make is they're so excited
about their new pup. Yes. Good girl.
So I'm excited about their new puppy having a name that they end up saying the
name over and over and over again. And then you're,
it's sort of essentially taking your puppy that their name doesn't matter.
So I'm only going to use her name in a scenario where I can back it up with
rewards in the first little bit. Euchre yes. Good girl.
Good gear her up. We haven't even done the homework yet where I've taught her.
What? Yes. Means I'm just sort of associating it. Yes. Good girl.
She's going to figure it out pretty quickly. That yes.
Means good rewards are coming,
but I can deliberately teach her what the word yes.
Is by doing a little word association game girl.
Yes. And then feed yes and then feed.
Yes. And then feed. Yes. And then feed can see.
She's like, okay, I'm into this game. This is pretty easy. Yes.
Good girl and feed. And when I do this, she happens to be sitting,
which is great. Oops. I'm going to get her off me here.
She happens to be sitting, which was great, but she doesn't need to be,
she just needs to be engaged. And that's all she's doing now. Yes. Good. Girly.
Yes. Good. Yes. An excellent.
So we've just done a few little things. I'm going to do something now.
Just a little bit more active and I'm going to make sure I leave some stuff in
the bowl. Oh yes. Good girl.
I'm going to leave some stuff in the bowl so that I can also use the food as an
opportunity to get more reward and positivity associated with her kennel.
So she'll eat the rest of her meal in her crate.
So I'm going to give her the rest of her breakfast.
I've added a little bit of water and now you'll notice I have another crate over
here. She's going to be moved into that one eventually,
but she's a little bit too small for that crate.
I don't want her using one half as a potty area and the other half is the
sleeping area.
So I'm going to see if I can get her to go into this crate willingly.
And if not, I'm just going to place her in it.
That's something that I will be training in the next couple of days.
What's this? Ready? Now she just slept in there all night.
So she may or may not want to go in or the door shut on you. Okay.
She's not too sure.
So I'm just going to put her in good girl and we're going to go have your
breakfast. And hopefully you're going to see without the throat, the series,
how this is going to change, what will start to happen?
Because when I get her breakfast ready,
she will eventually start to just run on her own. But this is only day one.
Good girl. Here ya go. Yeah, no, no, no, no.
Stay in there. Breakfast. I'm just going to shut the door.
Success
may not be able to hear me. And others,
you may recognize this sound. And this is where a lot of puppy owners,
new pet owners,
they start to get a little bit nervous or feel a little sad or feel a little
guilty because she's in the crate screaming. But I know she's had a pee,
she's had training. She's had a play, she's had breakfast.
All of her needs have been met. She just doesn't want to be in there.
So I'm just going to let her cry it out for a little bit.
It's only her first day home. I'm not going to discipline it at this point.
I'm going to continue making my breakfast and I'm going to pretend that there's
nothing going on. And once she settles,
I will let her out and see if she has to go to the washroom. But for now,
this is just the really hard part of crate training.
So you may have seen this in some of our past videos,
but this is probably one of her favorite puppy exercises to do this hallway has
trained many puppies with us.
And one of our favorite things to do is a little restraint recalls to start
teaching girl, her name, or even to hear here, hear command.
So I've given Ken a little handful of her breakfast.
I have a little handful of her breakfast as well,
and we're just going to sit on either ends of the hallway and we're going to
call back and forth,
tire her out a little bit and have a really fun way of teaching her about coming
to us. Good girl, you're going to get so much faster at this.
So once she eats the food, I have food here. I'm just going to hide it away.
I am just going to turn around. Ken's going to try and get her attention.
Ready,
Yay!
Good job. All right. Okay. Then we'll turn her around here.
We'll turn her around. We'll do that. Yeah.
Ready,
pro.
You can really see the dogs pick up the pace.
Really get excited about hearing their name when they do exercises like this.
This is a great.
This is just such a great way to reinforce the value of coming to their name.
Good girl. It's also really important when you do this,
see how close we're feeding her. I'm letting her come right in.
Okay we're gonna go again. Ready? Set,
Euchre.
We didn't make a big deal when she didn't respond. The first I know this is,
I mean, the first time that we've ever done this exercise with her,
the one thing that I wouldn't do is call her name over and over again.
The next time I need to make sure that I have a little bit more focused before I
call her name and when Kayl releases her, let's try this again. Ready?
Good. Girl.
We can also sneak that little puppy sound recall in there ahead of time.
Since that's something that she's kind of familiar with already.
Because her breeder did that when they were feeding. Good girl. Wow missy moo.
You. [inaudible] Oh, wow.
Good. That was fun. Little girl. Good girl.
So again, we're giving the puppy some crate time.
She was just screaming about two seconds ago.
And what's interesting is from the time it took us to turn the camera on
versus now she's already starting to settle and this is what's going to start to
happen as the days go on. She's going to start to get better now.
Eventually we're not going to allow her to carry on like this,
but this is still such a new learning process for her that we're just kind of
letting her figure it out again. She's just had training.
She just went on like a little walk around the outside of our property. She's,
you know, had a little play. There's no reason for her to make noise,
except for the fact that she just doesn't want to be in the crate. But again,
once she settles is a great opportunity for just to go in there and nap and
learn that that's her place to kind of chill out. It's just like kids,
sometimes puppies get overtired, they get overstimulated.
And then they're like kinda crabby for a little bit.
And then they sort of settle in and she's literally almost asleep now.
So you just have to persevere and it gets better much faster than you really
realize. You just have to use the crate and not worry about the screaming.
Come on out. Good girl.
So I just got back from I was away for about a couple hours and I had to go get
groceries. And before I left I put her in her crate,
Ken was working and he was just sort of keeping an eye on her,
but because we did so much training and stuff before earlier in the morning,
she literally slept this whole time.
And I think that's an important thing to note,
because I think a lot of people think puppies need all of this free time to roam
around.
But really what we want you to do is spend more focused time with your puppy
that actually tires them out and also encourages them to learn the right things.
And she was more than, you actually seem a little sleepy still.
She was more than happy just to, you know,
conk out for a couple of hours while I was gone. So now anyways,
I'm going to get her up and get her moving again.
We have to feed her some lunch.
So I'm going to take this as another opportunity to do some training with her.
So as I'm putting the groceries away,
I decided that I I'm just gonna let her hang out here. But I'm, you know,
choosing some very specific management tools here,
sh once she has a leash or a line on here, this word little leash,
so you can't really go anywhere. And I've also given her a bone to chew. Now,
one thing they really impressed about is that she's actually choosing to chew
the bone near me as I do this. I think that's a really, really great thing.
I also know that that's not something that she'll naturally do.
Forever puppies tend to start to get a bit more independent,
but I keep reaching down and telling her she's a good girl.
I keep reinforcing her. If she was to get up and like go and do her own thing,
I wouldn't allow her to do that. I would stop her with the line.
I don't want to be in here busy doing groceries and have her sneak off and have
an accident or chew something.
So if I'm going to choose to let her be free out of her crate and just sort of
hanging out, it's going to be very supervised. So I am multitasking here.
Groceries are coming out,
but I'm mostly looking at after after the puppy making good
choices. Here you go babe. Yes.
So it's lunchtime and I thought I may take the opportunity.
I am going to feed some of this of this food. I mean,
she's very excited and you're crazy.
But I just want to actually work on teaching her how to go into the crate. Now,
sometimes I'm just going to put her in,
but I am going to take a little bit of time to teach her now so that the door
doesn't scare her at all. It just removed it.
And I'm just going to start off by taking some food and just feeding her with
like her little head in the crate, some dropped in.
See if I can put a couple in the inside that she'll eat here. Okay,
good.
And then I'm going to progressively get the food further in until she takes a
little step. Oh, good girl. Yes.
But I'm just going to let her come out. I'm not going to push her in good girl.
Yes. When she comes out, though, I'm not going to feed.
I'm going to keep the food. Oh, there it is.
Where's your sniffer here. There we go.
There we go. Good girl. I'm not going to feed her out of the crate.
All of the reward is going to be in the crate.
Good girl.
It's so tempting just to push that last foot in there,
but you don't want to do that. Just going to be patient. Yes.
Now what I could also do is like implement a higher value reward at this point.
If I wanted to, like, when all of her four feet go in,
I can throw some cheese in there, but she's pretty into the kibble.
So I'm just gonna roll with it. Now,
what you'll notice that I did on the last repetition. Yeah.
She's still in there. Good girl is just as she was coming out of the crate.
I said, okay. I gave her a release command.
Eventually she's gonna need to learn that she's got to stay,
stand the crate until I give her permission to come out.
So I can actually start showing her about that now by saying, okay.
Before she actually comes up to the crate herself.
So she's choosing to come out of the crate, but I'm just starting to you know,
implement that release. Okay. Yes.
Just means you have to have really good timing. Good girl.
So I would only practice this a couple more times.
I might go and do some other training as well before she gets too full.
And then I'll feed her the remainder of her crate in the crate with the crate
door closed with a little bit of water on the, on the food high,
big just to get, get her up.
She's going in so much more easily just to get her accustomed to it.
And at that moment I would just place her, gently into the crate.
I don't need to go through this whole rigmarole every single time,
unless she's going to start to go in a little bit more easily,
but I can't expect that to happen after one training session. Good girl.
I would say this was pretty successful for the first try ever though.
I think it's also important to remember that the whole day with your puppy
doesn't need to be so action packed. It's really good to get training in there.
It's good to get play play sessions in.
That's going to tire the puppy out,
but you also need like time to snuggle and time just to teach them just to kind
of hang out. She's got a little bone here,
one of the adult bones and she thinks it's pretty cool.
Have her little line on her just going to let her, hang out.
I'm sitting here checking my phone and just sorta spending a little time
together. If she passes out,
then I'm going to go pop her in the crate and it gets more done.
This puppy has been home for just about 24 hours at this point.
And she's making some really good choices.
Part of the reason behind that though,
is that she's getting good information and a lot of management.
And in this series,
you're going to see her continue to develop over the next couple months.
We're going to speed up this puppy's training by managing her well throughout
the day.
And a good example of that is what we did earlier tonight for her supper,
rather than just feeding her the supper.
I used it to start teaching her to do things like go and lie calmly on a bed.
This is going to be really helpful for when we eat dinner or when people come
over, she's already on the first day, learning that going in,
lying on the bed is something that can be really rewarding.
Now you can see she's still got a bundle of energy right now.
So the next thing that we're going to do before we tire her out and get her
ready for bed,
we're going to practice some recalls and some retrieving down the hallway.
It's a great way to kind of get that excess energy out.
So by the time we're ready to take her up to her crate for the night,
she's got all that energy out and she's much more likely to sleep through the
night for us.
We specifically chose to work on exercises that we know are going to help us to
control her a little bit more easily down the road. Things like teaching,
her to respond to her name,
which is going to be really helpful for getting her attention,
teaching her the word yes, which is the foundation for everything.
We're basically going to teach her,
getting her comfortable with the crate right away,
which is going to be a godsend when we are trying to navigate through the next
couple of weeks of this crazy puppy time.
But what's really important is that you don't wait to start this training with
your puppy. You want to get going with it right away.
All of this physical work and mental work is really going to help calm
your puppy to tire them out.
And their brains are fully developed by the time they are seven weeks old,
they are ready to learn and we need to make sure that we're jam pack in as much
good information in there. And now,
as we can to ensure a success in the long run, now,
you know what we didn't do today.
We didn't have to clean up any accidents and we didn't have to use any of this
stuff. You'd like to bite that wouldn't you? Now,
the reasons why we were having so much success with our house training today's
because we managed her really well.
We were able to anticipate any possible time for,
she may have had to go to the washroom such as after eating naps and a really
important one is after any big plays,
all that exercise often causes them to have to go to the bathroom.
So if you can predict those things and make sure that you're staying ahead of
it,
you're going to find that you can actually get through a large part of puppyhood
without having any accidents in the house.
Now she has had a very long and tiring day, quite honestly. So we,
we are all ready for bed at this point. Now,
if you'd like to watch the next video in this series,
make sure you click that card right there.
And if you'd like watch the video of the day, we brought her home,
click that card right here on that note. I'm Kayl. This is baby Euchre,
Happy Training.