Dog Training | Dog Training
September 27, 2010 by jamesk
Filed under Dog Training
Interested in raising a sound healthy puppy at home? Then learn the proper techniques to do your own obedience training.
Obedience training will help you achieve that goal easily. Obedience training will be a lot more difficult to accomplish then feeding your dog and taking care of him everyday. It’s not that it’s some kind of rocket science, anyone can do it easily, the problem is that most people aren’t aware of it or don’t know what to do in so many different situations.
The goal here is to teach you so you can really train your dog using positive methods.
Beware of correcting your dog the wrong way. “Bad” corrections can cause severe trauma to your dog.
Bringing a dog home should not be taken without due consideration because it can be the best thing you’ve ever done, but also the worst thing you’ve done. You must always consider your own schedule and availability to properly train your dog.
- A well socialized puppy can only be made if he really socializes. Add other people and animals to your dog’s training. He will become a lot friendlier to strangers, animals, children and will be a lot easier and rewarding to you if he behaves properly.
- Be the Alpha Leader of your dog. Don’t allow authority tests from the dog. You should provide him food, shelter and of course attention and love, but don’t allow challenges from him. Be the leader always. If he barks at you to open a door or something similar you must be careful because if you do it he will be commanding you. Eventually you will have to open the door for him, but only when you see fit, not him.
- Your dog will have to be corrected sometimes but avoid punishment methods at all costs. Just to make sure you understand, you have to be the dog’s chief.
- Interacting with children since puppy age will reap you lots of benefits on the dog’s training.
- Your dog’s way of thinking can be used to your benefit.
Most of the time, your dog will be interacting with you so it’s your responsability to train him properly. After all, you are the best person to train him because it’s in your interest, you love your dog, and want a good life for him. You can use a dog trainer to help you with the techniques, but in the end it will always be your responsability to take care and train your dog.
Every day at any moment you interact with your dog you’re teaching him something. Dog training can be easily conditioned by following these simple steps:
- If you’re not consistent you won’t train your dog properly
- By redirecting behaviors you don’t fight the dog’s instincts, you use them
- Many bad behaviors or even accidents can be avoided by using prevention techniques
- The learning process is slow so you must be patient
- Think before you act, spontaneous actions usually don’t work well
- Your dog is exactly that, a dog not a person. Respect his needs.
If you want detailed instructions on how to train your dog visit my post at How to train dogs.
By: DogMaster
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With more than 10 years of dog training experience the author is now a major dog trainer consultant for one of the major dog kennels in Portugal.
For more info please visit the author’s blog at Obedience Training For Dogs
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Dog Training | Effective And Proper Dog Behavior Training
August 28, 2010 by jamesk
Filed under Dog Training
Dog behavior training is such a vital thing in order to prevent unhelpful behaviors such as aggression or violence. It is important to deal with dog aggression issues by training dogs to link up suitably with other dogs as well as people in particular. In order to know how to effectively train your dog to be a loyal and eager pet, it is important to know where dogs came from, and how their interaction with each other can have an effect on such trainings.
Dogs were trained to carry out tasks that a human being would need such assistance, like guarding a territory and scaring probable predators. A human in reward provides comfortable place of safety for the dogs, in addition to nutritious foods and companionship. This is a kind of connection that continues in the present days. Absolutely, a lot of dogs still perform a variety of tasks for their masters, including herding, guarding along with hunting.
Moreover, be attentive that dogs are instinctively pack creatures before beginning a training program. In wild dog packs, each member of the pack quickly becomes skilled at his or her place in the ranking. The alpha dog carries out his duties as pack leader and seemingly the lower dogs understand that they do not have to face up to the pack leader.
Knowing why a dog is showing signs of negative behavior are important in effectively training and modifying awful behaviors. For example, separation anxiety may be the root cause of many bad behaviors chewing and destructive behaviors. Solving the root cause of the problem will help to eliminate the side-lined behaviors. Stress and the lack of ability to deal with it can cause a multitude of horrible dog behaviors. One objective of a high-quality dog training program is to help the dog to endure stress without exhibiting negative behaviors.
It is significant to make a distinction between human and dog behavior when training and working through bad behaviors. Dogs and humans have different motivations and reactions, as a result, avoid the temptation to see your dog as human, along with reacting on that desire. One thing the humans and dogs have in common is their sociability and the need to form close groups and strong bonds. While the bonding is very important to dogs and humans, it has served very different purposes in the evolution of each species over time.
Training and guiding a dog to act properly has definitely loads of benefits, for the dogs and their human companions in a similar way.
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