Patience is the key to successful training. Never try to rush your puppy into doing more than what she easily can. Training has to be a gradual and step based process. Take things “one step at a time.” Many puppy owners have unrealistic or too high of expectations from their puppies. They like to rush from one training goal to next before ensuring that the puppy has perfected the previous one.

How can you expect the puppy to “stay”, if she has not yet perfected a “sit” command? Adopt a slow and steady training approach. Raise your expectations very slowly. Remember, it may take a week or even more before you can expect your puppy to “sit and stay” for two minutes.  

Move on to complicated and difficult commands after your puppy has perfected the basic ones like  ‘heel’,’ ’sit’ and ’stay’. Similarly, you should move on to training in a busy place only after you have taught her the command perfectly in the home. Puppies are situational learners.

There is a possibility that she may forget everything when you change the training venue. In this situation, you may have to restart the process right from the first step. This could be disturbing, but this is how puppies are and you will have to go by their limitations. 

Your puppy will take time before she understands what you want from her. If she is not responding to your commands, analyze your approach and work out something different rather than persisting with the same approach. Most of the time you will find that your approach was at fault and not the puppy.