Dog Training | Dog Training – Make Your Dog Listen To You

October 31, 2010 by jamesk  
Filed under Dog Training

How many times have you seen dog owners shouting at their dog while the dog blatantly ignores them? Often I presume!

However, if you consider what normally happens in situations like this it is quite easy to understand why. An owner starts shouting at their dog to come to them. The dog ignores them and the owner starts shouting louder and louder and more angrily (often not the same command). The dog continues to ignore them. Then the dog owner walks after the dog at which point the dog starts sulking towards the owner in full appreciation that its owner is annoyed. Upon reaching each other the dog is treated roughly (e.g. a rough pull of the collar or even a smack).

You can see two problems here. One, the dog starts associating whatever come command you are using with a form of punishment. Hardly surprising the dog does not want to come to you. Secondly, the owner has often used several commands, which mean absolutely nothing to a dog. In case you forget a dog can’t speak your language!

Long term the relationship between dog and owner is one of fear rather than respect.

Generally a dog will disobey for two reasons (I use the word disobey lightly for the two reasons below):

1. Your dog doesn’t understand the commands.
2. Your dog is simply ignoring you.

When training your dog you need to establish commands that your dog understands. In essence, this is teaching your dog to understand a bit of your language. These should be short, ideally one or two word commands. They should be different enough from each other that it is clear what each command is. Commands that sound the same will only make learning them harder for your dog. Once you select different commands, keep the same commands forever. Remember, your dog lives in a world where people are constantly talking in a full breadth of language that they will only ever realistically pick up 20 words of.

In teaching your dog the commands, you should also adopt hand signals specific to that command. As dogs can be trained very quickly by associating a command with an action, dogs often learn what the hand signal means before they really associate the voice command with it. As with the voice command, be consistent with the hand command and make it clear. Bad example, but you don’t want to associate the sit command with folding your arms – how often do you fold your arms and how many times would you do it solely to get your dog to sit?

The presentation of your commands is also crucially important. Your commands need to be short, sharp, clear and obvious that you mean what you say. A weak or playful voice command will not work and your dog will firstly think they have an option and secondly think you are not the alpha dog.

In the case of a dog simply ignoring you, the dog understands the command but just chooses to ignore you. It

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Dog Training | Dog Training Advice On The Right Mindset Before You Even Think

May 5, 2010 by jamesk  
Filed under Dog Training

The main title to this article, dog training advice for the right mindset, has not been used to cause outrage. My decision to use this description was to quickly tell you, the reader, that I intend to give you some very useful information very much like the info you’d get from the people who put together the yellow and black series of books.

You obviously need some support because you came on here and obtained this article. I want to get you into the correct mindset for training your dog. Once you have the right mindset you’ll find that training any dog can be easy. You may even end up creating your own dog training system.

To begin with the first change in your mind you will have to make to train your dog is to go from having this thought that your dog can’t be disciplined and they will forever be a issue to own. And start to think about how you will take control of the whole state of affairs and deal with your troublesome canine.

You then need to step out of the way you presently treat your dog and give him the ‘aww, isn’t he precious, he’s just like a little baby’ label. This one reason is why almost all owners have issues with their dog and it’s in all probability the reason why you too are having the problems you have right now.

If you don’t own up to this now then you won’t be able to move in the right direction and take control of your pet. And don’t worry you’re doing this without even thinking about it because this is the way we are as humans are however your dog sees it as an opportunity to step into the one at the top of the tree.

After recognizing and mastering both of these 2 issues you start to put in place a program that will aid you to take charge of your dog. It will feel as if you’re been a little wicked towards your dog however if you point out to him how he should be carrying himself around you then he will start to show good behaviour more frequently.

Don’t worry and make sure you keep your head up, don’t feel bad just don’t give your dog the same treatment you would your children. When you can get this correct then you’ll be ready to start educating your dog the basic training controls.

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