When you bring your Tibetan Mastiff puppy home, the first thing you need to do is introduce it to your family and friends and familiarize it with its new surroundings, so what’s next? The breeder of the puppy should advise you that at the very least you should draw up a recipe and potty train it.
I don’t want to tell you how to do this because there is a lot to learn about food enticement and reward training as well as mechanical stimulation (spontaneous response conditioning), but from a puppy behavioral point of view, you should know what to do and what not to do. For the sake of Tibetan Mastiff puppy training, you can try to do it right.
A Tibetan Mastiff puppy will definitely bark for 3 days and 3 nights when it arrives at its new home, because the new environment worries it (and loneliness adds to the worry). after 3 days it will be able to adapt.
Feeding
Don’t worry if your puppy “refuses to eat” when you first bring him home. Don’t use lures to “stimulate” your puppy to eat right away. Why?
Your puppy is unfamiliar with his environment. He may be so interested in the new place that it “interferes” with his eating, or he may be so worried about his new home that it causes him to stop all unwanted behaviors (worrying reduces appetite).
Don’t change the diet suddenly, why? This is because it takes 3 days for the dog to produce the right digestive enzymes to digest the new food and during this time it will only take up enough water, resulting in diarrhea or soft stools. Therefore, you should follow the following procedure to gradually change your puppy’s diet over a period of 4 days or more.
Day 1: Give him 1/4 of the new food + 3/4 of the original food.
Day 2: Give 1/2 new food + 1/2 original food.
Day 3: Give him 3/4 new food + 1/4 original food.
Day 4: New food.
Leave your puppy.
Don’t spend all day with your puppy (this is especially important if you are getting your puppy while your kids are on vacation). Why?
Your puppy needs to learn to be left alone, otherwise it can lead to “separation-related” problems when daily life changes (e.g., kids go back to school or you go back to work).
Always leave your puppy alone for 10 minutes or more and do not return to him until he is quiet. Why?
Ten minutes of regular basic training will help your puppy get used to your absence. Not coming back until your puppy is quiet will help him understand better that if he stays quiet, you will come back.
If your puppy barks at night, ignore him, why? Because if you do, he will learn to get you to come back by barking. This will perpetuate the problem and make it harder to learn, for example.
Night 1: Puppy barks for 10 minutes and you come.
Night 2: Puppy barks for 10 minutes. When you don’t show up, the puppy barks longer, say 15 minutes, and you show up.
Puppy learns to bark harder (25 minutes instead of 10, to get you to come back).
Week 2: Puppy barks for hours until you give in and come to him (or worse, until you go to bed with him).
This is a similar pattern of facilitation and learning to the daytime “separation-relationship” issues.
