English Golden Retrievers

These are some of the things that you should know after you have decided on Golden retriever puppies adoption. These are just some of the basics, really this could apply to any adoption of any puppy. What I'm talking about is the things that will make your experience successful. Which means you will keep your dog for a good long time. And you won't have any desire to return him or her back to the shelter. Because we all know what happens to dogs that end up at a shelter don't we? And we don't want that.

There are some basic things that I will cover here that will help ease the transition for both your puppy and for you.

The first thing that you're going to do when you pick up your puppy is going to bring him home. Now presumably you have other family members that will want to meet the puppy and you may also have friends that want to meet the puppy. However, and this may seem counterintuitive, you don't actually want to make a big deal about bringing her home. The last thing that you want to have happen is to have your kids and your spouse congregate around the puppy all at once and shower him with a lot of attention immediately.

In fact you want to ease the transition so start to prepare your family before you bring him home. This is going to be a little more challenging with kids especially young kids but you need to do it. So what you want to do is you want to bring the puppy home and let him sniff around and figure things out a little bit. Then gradually introduce him to one family member at a time but limit the amount of time in the amount of petting for the puppy.

This will accomplish two things. First the puppy will not come to believe that this level of attention as normal. That's critical, because if he believes that he's going to behave in a manner that tries to attract the sort of attention. Secondly, you're also training the humans a little bit. If you space out your interaction between your kids and the dog then it will also keep the interest for your kids. This is a strategy that I used.

It helped when it came to walking the dog and feeding the dog and pointing out water for the dog and things of this nature. These things were more interesting and they had an opportunity to bond. In the past, when I wouldn't put any rules or boundaries around the interaction with the dog I found that my children got bored with them very quickly. And I didn't want that.

So that's step one making sure that you slowly introduce your puppy to your family.

Step two which effectively also begins immediately that you bring the puppy home is crate training. Before you pick him up you want to have a crate for him ready to go. That he's not that understand how to use it immediately but this lets you begin to crate train. And at the start it's a relatively simple process you simply want him or her to get used to it. So throw a treat in their crate and a towel or something to make him comfortable and just get him used to going in and out of it to start with that's good enough.

The third thing that you want to do immediately is to help your dog understand some boundaries. This is a really critical to having a good long-term pet. You need to help them understand for example that he is not allowed on the furniture and not allowed on the bed and not allowed in certain areas of the house unless you explicitly give him permission.

What you're doing in this case is you are effectively establishing yourself as a leader in his eyes. So you certainly can let him on the couch if you wish or let him on the bed if you wish but you must also make sure he understands that it belongs to you and when it's time to go down it's time to go down. Having the crate will also aid in this because he has a place of his own to go.

The final but important step to follow again as soon as you bring home is to make sure of a couple simple things. Make sure that when he comes into the house that you come in first. Make sure that when you go out of the house you go out first.

There are many many more things that you need to do in order to properly train your puppy but get started with these three steps and then perhaps consult professional or further training aids to help you make sure that your dog is happy healthy and well trained.By: John BanningArticle Directory: http://www.articledashboard.comJohn Banning is a Golden Retriever Expert. For more information on Golden Retriever Puppies Adoption visit SuperSmartGoldenRetriever