[sunnylove87]

:rolleyes: okay, so I have a 6 year old cockerspaniel-poodle (cockapoo), and I am thinking about getting a puppy this summer. Well my cock-a-poo is a pretty well-trained dog. It is just that I was wondering if I want to train my puppy AND her to do something, should I train them at the same time? Thanks! :D

[Akoue]

Train the older dog now. Then she will help you to train the puppy.

[sajjw]

I agree with Akoue as well. Train your older dog first because your pup will use her behaviour as an example and also because you will need to train separately and its distracting for you and the dog if the puppy is whining because he has been shut in the other room while you train the older dog.

[Silverfoxkit]

Yes, puppies are very monkey see-money do, so having the older dog trained first will go a long ways to helping teach the puppy. On that same line of though however, you may want to take care of any bad behaviors your dog has because the puppy may pick up on those to.

[ZoeMarie]

Definitely train your 6-year-old dog now so she can set a good example for your puppy. I imagine it would be hard work to train both at the same time.

[MsMewiththat]

Perfect advise. It's funny to watch them do what others do... when in Rome. We rescued a puppy that had no clue how anything was done. He would potty in his crate and on the couch, on the bed, didn't matter to him... he didn't get it. He is 6 months old and was virtually locked in a kennel day in and day out. Well he had no choice but to poo in his kennel so the crate training method wasn't working for him once we got him because as gross as it is that was what he did. Our 4 yr old dog Kobe that we have had since 12 weeks goes on command... almost funny but if you take him outside or to his patio potty and tell him to go potty, within seconds he goes. So any way I say that to say... I thought training him would be a nightmare and take forever, it's been about 3.5 weeks and the new little guy Keko (affectionately called little foot) is already up to speed. I can't take fully credit for it, he has been watching Kobe and now knows the drill. I can't say I totally trust him all the time, but if we take him out on a regular basis it eliminates the accidents.

[sajjw]

My last puppy, little Katy was virtually housetrained entirely by my three older dogs. I hardly had to do any work with her at all except I used to take her out first thing in the morning. I didn't bother for the rest of the day because she just used to follow her mum outside and copy her. She has been fantastic. I was going outside every half an hour with my eldest because he was an only so had no older dog to learn from.

[dementic]

Hey dude,
I was also trying to train my dog (chewie) to attack on command and doing more things like roll, play dead and such.

I tried all the tips I got from people, but most of them never worked..
The only thing I actually managed to train him is to sit and not pee in the house.
I did that by an advice from a friend, which told me that when ever the chewie is waking up,
I have to take him outside for a short walk, since after he wakes up he need to pee and poo :).

When I almost gave up on chewie, a friend came to me and sayd that he had the same problems with the dog ( like chewing the chairs and such things ),
He recommended me a book, that he told me he used to train he's own dog with.
The book name is Secrets to dog Training and the Author of the book is Daniel Stevens.

Now chewie behaves like a soldier and can perform all kind of tricks, which I never imagined he could ever do!
I'm proud to say that chewie is part of my family now...

Good Luck with your own dog,
Rephael.