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<h1>Puppy Training 101: Primary Equipment Needed To Coach Your Puppy</h1>
Are you ready for Puppy Training 101? To get started, you will need three targeted pieces of equipment to properly teach your puppy: a training collar, a leather training lead, plus a 15-foot length clothesline rope 
 
If you're already thinking that your puppy's present leather collar will work, and that his 4-foot chain leash will suffice, you may as well stop reading this article and save yourself and your puppy weeks of discomfort and hardship. There simply is no substitute for the right training equipment. A training collar is a slip-chain type made of metal. Don't substitute one that's made of nylon. 
 
One of the many things your puppy is going to learn is to have confidence in you. But he will never develop that feeling of confidence if you substitute improper training equipment that will not be effective. Where there's no confidence there can be no respect, and no respect means no desire to please. No desire to please means no willingness to learn. Add them all up and you have an uncontrollable puppy that will never achieve his rightful place in human world. 
 
The Proper Leash 
 
Your leash should be of the regular five to six foot leather type with a hand loop at one end. Training dog collars as well as leather training leads can be found from pet stores and also via online catalogs. Training collars are sometimes called choke-chains, which is incorrect. While it's true that a training collar can choke, if it's worn on the puppy correctly and used properly, there's no way it can be a choke-chain and cause harm to your pet. 
 
The Right Collar 
 
The collar should be large enough to slide over the puppy's head comfortably, but not so large as to fall over the ears if the puppy should lower his head. A good rule of thumb to follow is to place the collar on the puppy and cinch it up tight for a moment and observe whether you have three inches of chain left over. If so, you have a fairly good fit. It is better to have a training collar that's slightly too large than one slightly too small. 
 
Final Puppy Training Necessities That You Cannot Find In A Store 
 
The remaining equipment that you'll need cannot be purchased at any store, but without them, you cannot successfully train your puppy. 
 
You must love and care for your puppy! You must have patience and exercise patience while your puppy is learning. A shallow patience put together along with a quick temper is going to assure complete and utter fiasco 
 
To lose your cool and blow up means the end of training, so here's a little tip that might help you keep your cool: 
 
It takes 4 to 5 days for an average puppy to learn the average thing. Do not expect your puppy to perform like a professional the first few days of teaching him something new. It just doesn't happen that way. If you lose control of yourself, you've lost charge of the actual situation. When this happens, your puppy loses confidence in you. 
 
I hope you have enjoyed the first lesson in Puppy Training 101!
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