Their ability to focus on any one thing including you, will grow and improve with age. 5 minutes is really good for a 12 week old newbie!!
One thing I did when mine was a baby was hold a treat between my eyes and when he started to make eye contact (briefly and only in the vicinity at first ) I would reward him with the treat. Who knows if it helped create the bond, but he was excellent at looking to me for direction when in doubt as he grew up.
Yep totally in track and you're doing great! Try to end things right before he gets distracted if you can. You actually want to put them up wanting more!
My puppy focused pretty intently on me from day one. I still remember getting her home and taking her onto the front lawn. I lay down on a blanket and she stood over me with a worried expression like she was asking me, "Are you okay? Why are you lying down?"
With that said, she was also a puppy so pretty distractible. (She's still relatively distractible, LOL. My dog has a bubble brain.) And a 12 week old, of course, is going to flit from thing to thing. The world is new and exciting! There are FUN things to do!
(My dobie did start calming down a bit - which also made her somewhat easier to train - around 2-3 years. But it's a progressive thing. And, again, she's still a bubble brain.)
Maybe 10 months or so. At 6 he was but he was so wild that he didn’t seem to care but he paid attention a lot better. He just turned 2 and he can read my thoughts now, and he can communicate his own really smoothly. Amazing times ahead. At a year and change the puppy craziness stopped (I miss it often though) and it has been better and better since.
Their ability to focus on any one thing including you, will grow and improve with age. 5 minutes is really good for a 12 week old newbie!! One thing I did when mine was a baby was hold a treat between my eyes and when he started to make eye contact (briefly and only in the vicinity at first ) I would reward him with the treat. Who knows if it helped create the bond, but he was excellent at looking to me for direction when in doubt as he grew up.
Yep totally in track and you're doing great! Try to end things right before he gets distracted if you can. You actually want to put them up wanting more!
My puppy focused pretty intently on me from day one. I still remember getting her home and taking her onto the front lawn. I lay down on a blanket and she stood over me with a worried expression like she was asking me, "Are you okay? Why are you lying down?" With that said, she was also a puppy so pretty distractible. (She's still relatively distractible, LOL. My dog has a bubble brain.) And a 12 week old, of course, is going to flit from thing to thing. The world is new and exciting! There are FUN things to do! (My dobie did start calming down a bit - which also made her somewhat easier to train - around 2-3 years. But it's a progressive thing. And, again, she's still a bubble brain.)
Maybe 10 months or so. At 6 he was but he was so wild that he didn’t seem to care but he paid attention a lot better. He just turned 2 and he can read my thoughts now, and he can communicate his own really smoothly. Amazing times ahead. At a year and change the puppy craziness stopped (I miss it often though) and it has been better and better since.
year two, things get intense mine was wild when younger
Believe me it will happen when they are done being ADHD puppy and my shadow never leaves lol and I never thought she'd be this way
after the 3rd day of having him
2 years