When you take your puppy home and start spending time outside with it, walk along the edge of the street as you would if you're going to go walking. Start by walking toward the street then turn just in time to be walking along the dirt shoulder. If the puppy steps onto the pavement (which it is very likely to do), say in a very high excited voice "no street" and yank it off the pavement. Do this for example when you go to the mailbox to check mail. Obviously you don't want to do this during heavy traffic hours, I've known of a small dog that was pulled under a car that was going down the road very fast. The dog was pretty small and the suction produced by the passing car pulled it under the car. The dog lived, but lost a leg.
So as to avoid confusion, if you're going to walk your dog and cross streets, it would be a good idea to tell the puppy "no street" and stop at the edge of the street and have the puppy sit. Look both ways (be sure the puppy watches you do this) then tell the puppy to "cross" the street.
You might want to practice just going to the edge of the street and teaching your dog to stop at the edge of the street, sit and wait for you to give it the command to cross. Don't give the command to cross, but turn and leave repeating "no street". Using this method could surely save the life of many a pet.
In order to make this command stick, take several times during the day for the first few months you have the puppy/dog exercising this command. Of all the commands, this one is most likely to save the life of your pet.
If your pup doesn't respond well to this command, then you may want to teach the pup to chase you and make it fun. Use something like "Let's Play" and have a ball or squeeky toy, etc. that the pup likes to play with. Start squeeking the toy, turn and run the other way. Start your training in the house or yard. I wouldn't use it outside off lead unless an emergency happens. This can be a backup for "watch me", "or "no street".
I caution you not to run through these commands back to back in the house in a manner that they can get used to a certain order. The Klee Kai is smart enough that you want to make a game out of the exercise and try to trick them. They're smart enough to enjoy the challenge and as a consequence will keep their eyes on you constantly.
You can use this same method to teach your pet to stay within it's own boundaries. You do this same exercise if you have an electronic fence. You take the pup to the edge of the boundary where you put up flags using the same method to teach the pup not to go past that line. You may want to use "get back" or something like that to signify that the puppy had better stop it's forward progress and back up.
I want to stress here, that using these exact words is not necessary. It has been my experience that using words that make sense are necessary, otherwise you blurt out the wrong command when an emergency happens. But if you want to use another language for example so that the command words are not used in everyday conversation but still make sense, that's OK. It doesn't matter what words you use, so long as you use the same words all the time.
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