Training and discipline

Now this post is from personal experience. Alot of peoples have different techniques when it comes to discipline so keep open minded and do what your comfortable with.

Let me start by telling you how we house trained our 2 frenchies as it worked very well. We started off putting a pen in the living room, cornering off just a small section so that you can fit their bed water bowl and some puppy pads. Remember that dogs do not like to go to the toilet next to there bed so they will try to hold it until there out of the pen. Then put a few puppy pads by the back door.

If you start to see them sniffing in one spot, gently pick them up and place them on the pads. If they go to the toilet on the pad praise them! Remember the puppy's are like children so when they are getting praised for something they've done they'll know its right! Now if your puppy does spoil on the carpet or off the puppy pads do NOT scream and shout this gets you nowhere. Once again pick your pup up say no firmly and put them on the pads. So many people loose their temper when it comes to house training, just remember the key things are patience and calm assertive attitudes .

Chewing, now your frenchie will go through their teething stage my main advice is puppy proof your home! Take away anything they can chew, or fit in their mouths! We was very lucky with our oldest frenchie zeus but my god our other frenchie hades chewed everything and anything! You can buy spray to spray on things to stop them chewing which seems to work, but i never invested in any.

On to lead training, personally i prefer my frenchies to have harnesses, as they have squashed faces it makes it more difficult to breath when walking and when they are hot so i don't like to put anything around their neck that could make it more diffcult.
To introduce the lead to them, once or twice a day walk them around your house or around your garden and everytime they pull slightly tug the lead and make a firm 'shh' noise with your mouth. Soon they will get the hang of it! Once they have got the hang of it don't give them too much lead, keep them by your side otherwise it's easy for them to think they are the dominant dog who is walking their pack. Now you should be the alpha of the pack, so like i said keep them by your side. Also don't walk looking down at them all the time, relax look forward nice a calmly as they can sense your state of mind. Once they sense your relaxed and not tense or scared they can relax too!

For the discipline side of things. If my two frenchies do anything naughty in the house like nick socks or bras or shoes they go straight to bed, all i have to do now is look at them and point to their bed and they know exactly where to go. I avoid shouting at them just because i believe that loosing your temper doesn't achieve anything. So if your frenchie does something wrong firmly say get to bed and point at their bed if they don't lisfen pick them up put them to bed and say bed.

So there we are, my top tips for training and disciplining your new frenchie. Remember these tips are all from my personal experience, people have their own way of doing things but these are what i found really affective for my 2. Other people like to crate train their dogs but i hate the idea of my frenchies thinking their in a cage hense to why i did pen training instead. I hope these tips help you train your own frenchie.