We adopted a 10 week old puppy just 7 days ago, and overall things have been going well! He's definitely a bit of a demon shark at times and doesn't love going down for naps when he gets overtired, but potty training he knows to go to the door and any accidents happen after my wife or I say 'he probably needs to go out', so that at least is up to us to work on. I'm hoping for advice in three areas – maintaing focus, how to add cues and adding new contexts for training (these all seem interconnected to me)
He knows a little bit in terms of training, he at least associates the clicker and treat bag with sitting + looking at me or her means he gets a treat, and can kind of play leave it for a few moments, but he is very very distractable (is a baby).
He knows the behaviors for sit/leave it/going to the door to be let outside/going to crate for dinner, but besides his name to look at us he seems to totally have no idea we are even talking to him
Any tips on maintaining focus for training? Even in short bursts it is very hard to maintain his attention even with chicken or other very high value treats.
Knowing that it's still early, and not taking these as bad progress at all! He is receptive to our attention and loves food so I'm very happy with where he is at this point. Just looking to make sure we stay on the right track with positive reinforcement and help him to keep doing so well. I'm assuming an answer will just be persistence, but are there tips y'all have for helping add contexts/cues
This subreddit has been so helpful so far knowing where to go with concepts, what's normal, and all that good stuff!
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