Chihuahua Puppy Training Tips

Chihuahuas are the smallest breed of dogs and are very gentle and loyal by nature. Training a Chihuahua needs regular rewards and lot of patience. After the training is completed, they are the perfect watch dogs since they are highly protective and fearless by nature.

Age Limit

There’s exactly no age limit to wait for training a Chihuahua. They can learn early and needed to be trained as early as possible.

Socialization

To make Chihuahua non-aggressive and fearless, he should be introduced to all the members of the family as well as to your friends, some strangers and other pets. Socializing will help him adjust to the different kinds of environment normally.

Comfort level

Comfort level is needed to make the training process much easier. You can’t teach or train your Chihuahua unless you both don’t feel comfort with each other. To develop the comfort level, you need to respect your dog and get respect in return as well. Letting him know that you are a master is a must but behaving like friends is what make the training a Chihuahua successful.

Routine development

When things are done in a routine, it is more practical and easy unlike randomly done things. Make a routine of almost everything like providing meal, potty time, training period, playing moment etc. With making of a routine, it will be easier for you to learn about the timings of when he’s more energetic and when he’s feeling lazy and sleepy. These things will help you more in the time of training him.

Eliminating areas

Taking your Chihuahua regularly outside and making him to defecate at the same spot always will also develop a habit in him to go for the same place when he’s needed to do it. To know when he wants to do, just watch for the signals like sniffing, circling round, whining etc.

Reward Training

Give him any kind of pet food as a reward when he does some task correctly. For instance-when you say him to sit, give me the treat if he immediately sits down. Repeat the same for 4-5 times and he will know that he’s gonna get treat if he obey what you say. This reward based training will help in making him obedient and witty.