Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Make Dog Training Easy By Following These Tips.

By David Hamilton


Dog training can be the perfect way to welcome your new dog to the family. Dog training can help him to understand who the boss is and what you expect of him. This can help to avoid bigger problems later on. This article can help you learn more about dog training, and the benefits that it has for everyone.

Don't expect too much of your dog, too soon. Puppies will be puppies. That is what makes them so cute. The key to training them to act appropriately, is consistency. Be consistent in immediately reinforcing good behavior and eventually, your dog will get the message. Just don't expect them to become fully trained overnight.

If you give a new dog the freedom to roam your home as he pleases, you are likely going to have some problems. You need to introduce the freedom gradually. It will help to avoid accidents on the carpeting, destructive chewing and getting into the things that they are not supposed to. Crate training is the best way to keep your dog behaved.

When you are training your dog, it's important to realize that learning for dogs needs to be continuous, as it would be with humans. Don't stop working with your dog once they master the commands you teach them. Make them work towards new skills, and this will in turn perfect the initial skills they learn.

Make training a part of your dog's daily routine. Ten minutes of training every day gives much better results than an hour of training once a week. The dog has less time to forget the lessons learned and it is much easier to keep a dog's attention for a few minutes at a time. Also, the dog will not end up eating so many treats in a single session that hunger is no longer a good motivator to learn new commands.

In order to properly train your dog you should always have a training goal for each session. Setting goals is important for success in many areas of life, including dog training. If you do not set goals, you have no way of gauging your dog's success with its training. Setting goals will fix this problem.

Food and treats can be your ally in training your dog to seek out his crate. Allow your dog to find strategically placed bits of food and a few treats every once in awhile when he returns to his crate. He will make it a habit of checking the crate out more regularly just in case something else has miraculously appeared there.

If you have tried everything to keep your dog from digging up your garden with no success, it may be time to build a fence. This is especially good for large garden plots. A fence doesn't have to be ornate or expensive to be effective. Just a simple chicken wire fence should keep your dog from getting in.

Use timing as part of your dog training methods. Use it as a form of communication with your dog. Timing is one of the main elements of teaching a canine properly. It doesn't matter what teaching methods you use, try to work at having them develop the proper timing for each method.

To conclude, remember that you can make use of the information, tips, advice and suggestions highlighted in this article to train your dog(s) regardless of whether you are just beginning the process, or looking for ways to enhance your existing process. Be patient and apply the information to your case and good luck with your dog training adventures.




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