Raising Your Rottweiler Puppy
Once you have selected your Rottweiler pup you will be starting a life long relationship with your new Rottweiler pup. A Rottweiler pup is typically very active and will require your constant attention for the first two years of their life since this is the most critical part of their life when they are developing their character.
The Rottweiler is easy to train but they are also a bit slow. Not in the mental sense, rather the Rottweiler wants to see how much they can get away with before they need to comply with your commands. Therefore, after you establish that you are in charge you will find it easy to train your Rottweiler pup as long as you treat them right. You should never bully your Rottweiler pup. Bad training can lead to behavioral problems and doesn’t necessarily mean abuse and harsh behavior, but it can also mean soft and indecisive training.
The first thing you should teach your Rottweiler pup is house training. You will initially notice that your Rottweiler pup needs to go to the bathroom every two to three hours. The best way to house train your Rottweiler pup is to crate them and as soon as you let them out lead them to the littering place.
House training is the first thing you should teach your new Rottweiler pup. The first thing you will notice is that your Rottweiler pup needs to go to the bathroom every two to three hours. To house train your Rottweiler pup the best method is to crate them and take them to the littering place right after letting them out. Training a Rottweiler pup will require a lot of patience and control on your part. Ideally if you handle the training well then by six months you will have a completely housetrained Rottweiler pup.
When training your Rottweiler pup you need to be aware that they like to use their mouth a lot. Therefore they will bite and sometimes pretty hard on whatever they can get into their mouth including your feet, hands, furniture and anything that drops on the floor. It is extremely important to train your Rottweiler pup to stop these behaviors before they become a habit for the dog.
In order to train your Rottweiler pup not to bite things you will have to admonish them every time they are found biting things. If the pup bites you and doesn’t respond to your loud vocal command then you should tap it with a newspaper roll which will be sufficient to deter any further attempts at biting you or other people.
You won’t have complete control over your Rottweiler pup for at least two years and before this it can be hard to restrain a Rottweiler pup so you should not have any small children around at this time. The youngest child that can be near a Rottweiler pup is at least seven years old.
Never give a child charge of the dog no matter what their age since the dog will sense the child’s inability to control them and immediately act up. While a lot of work goes into raising your Rottweiler pup it is worth it for the lifetime companion that you get in return.
