Keep Training Simple for Your Puppy
From Puppy Talk by Dale Buchanan
May 3, 2026 · 13 min · Episode 137
About this episode
Dale Buchanan discusses the importance of keeping puppy training simple and focusing on foundational skills.
In this episode I talk about why and how to keep the training simple for your puppy early in their training program. Why it’s best to keep it simple. Focus on the foundational skills and make them perfect before attempting to add more commands, behaviors etc.What happens when you make training to complex too early. You would not try to get a kid in college at 10 years old. What a basic puppy program looks like.Intermediate programAdvanced program If you need help housebreakin...
People in this episode
Host: Dale Buchanan
Topics covered
- puppy training
- foundational skills
- training complexity
- basic puppy program
- intermediate program
- advanced program
Keywords
- puppy training
- simple training
- foundational skills
- training programs
- dog training
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