How to Teach Your Dog

WHY TRAIN YOUR PUPPY OR DOG?

Almost everyone desires a pet – many prefer a dog, and most of us understand that having a dog brings a source of endless love and pleasure into our life. However, behavioral or obedience problems can often become an endless source of frustration.

When understanding how to train a dog you need to understand the reasons behind your dog’s behavioural traits. Dogs are not like humans, and may exhibit behaviour that is “bad” when not properly trained. In order to avoid this, it’s important that you know how to train your dog correctly.

TRAINING – TYPES AND TIPS

There are many issues and obedience problems that you may face as a dog or puppy owner. If you want to raise and train a happy, healthy and well adjusted dog yourself at home – you have come to the right place.

There are two types of training – behavioural and obedience.

Behavioural Training

Behavioural training prevents and/or corrects bad habits that your puppy or dog may develop or already has developed such as:

• Biting, and aggressive behaviour – As a dog owner, it is your responsibility to know how to stop aggressive dog behaviour before it turns into a serious issue.

• Barking – Dog barking can have a detrimental effect on your relationship with your neighbours. Most neighbours are really annoyed by, and will complain about, dog barking.

• Digging, jumping, chewing, begging, whining, car chasing, and separation anxiety.

Obedience Training

Obedience training is training your dog to obey certain commands such as:

• sit, stay, come, fetch, heel

• leash training

• tricks

Tips

• Be consistent during the training process. For example, do not let your puppy on the bed unless you are planning to allow them when they are full grown. This will only confuse them.

• Build a strong relationship based on trust and co-operation.

• Work with your dog’s natural drives and instincts, not against them.

• Before giving a word command to your dog, speak its name to get its attention; then speak a one-word command such as “stay,” “sit,” or “come”.

• Give rewards to your dog when he follows your commands. The reward can be in the form of praise (a pat on the head or saying ‘good’ dog in a pleasant tone of voice), offering a food treat or giving the dog their favourite chew toy. Never use any training techniques that are cruel or harsh. You do not need to break your dog’s spirit to have a well trained dog.

• Obedience training sessions should be frequent but short (10 to 15 minutes to prevent your dog from becoming bored), consistent, and happen on a daily basis.

• Don’t get impatient. At first, you might find it hard to teach your dogs some basic obedience commands, however, you do need to understand that training a dog is not easy; it requires lots of patience, time and consistency.

• Try to view the training as fun – this will keep you and your dog or puppy interested.

So, whether you want to stop dog barking, biting, chewing, whining, jumping, digging, aggressive dog behaviour, or just want to learn how to train a dog – this site will be of help to you. It is continually being improved to provide you with the most up to date resources and information.

All the techniques and tips included throughout the site will help you to learn and apply simple, basic and more advanced dog obedience training techniques.

One site I came across which you may find of benefit is www.kingdomofpets . When you look into this you will discover why their training techniques are so effective and popular.

Wishing you success,
Peter

For another great site see Routines for Babies