Fluff LOVES to bark. She barks at EVERYONE. I now own a pair of shredded shoes, (tasty leather) and she just did her business on the latest National Geographic!
It’s a struggle to have a new dog when you’re faced with behavior issues. Despite this, fast corrections can be made when you use a powerful system to train your dog daily. HUGE improvements can be made in only 7 days.
Training your dog can be a lot of fun for both of you, as long as you have good information and some patience. With the right info, you’ll quickly see that your dog can learn new commands quite fast, and you’ll begin to enjoy the lessons.It’s important for Rover to know basic commands such as Come, Sit, Stay, and Heel. This will help keep him out of harms way around cars, and in public parks.
One person should be in charge of training your dog. This will make it easier for you and the dog because of familiarity, and the consistency of the training method. Everyone who lives with the dog should help to train the dog by following the methods of the primary trainer. When children help, they should be supervised, preferably by the primary trainer.
Because dogs have limited attention spans, lessons should be 15 minutes long, or a little less. Lessons can be every day, or every second day. Feel free to skip a session occasionally if you don’t feel up to it. It’s important for it to be fun, and to be able to feel patient.
For fastest results, blend the commands you’ve been working on into the dogs daily life. For example, if you’ve covered the Sit command, try using that throughout the day. Remember to reward your pooch every time he displays the correct behaviour.
When using food rewards, make sure that training stints are before mealtimes (the dogs) so that he’s hungry and inspired to act.
Begin training in a quiet environment with few distractions, making it easier for her to focus on learning the new command. If you remove distractions, you will be the most interesting item in the room to your dog. Try to choose a quiet room, where you and your dog are alone. After she has learned the command, start adding distractions, such as having other people in the room.
After these successes, reinforce the new orders using different body positions (on his left, right, with you sitting or standing, etc.), in other rooms of the house, and finally, outdoors on a lead. After a number of lessons, he’ll begin to understand that a command means that he should do the same thing each time, no matter where you are, or what your body language is.
Perhaps the canine that you will be instructing is no longer a puppy. This is not necessarily a disadvantage. Grown dogs generally have better attention spans, which allows her to learn faster. This can compensate for previous instruction that may need to be unlearned.
For example, your dogs earlier training might have caused her to associate a particular word for a particular behaviour. Maybe your dog is having difficulty grasping the right behaviour for the word Come. You could try using the word Here, instead. Be sure to use the identical training procedure.
It’s normal to need to regress a step or two in the training regimen, when moving to a new location, being in a new situation, or using different body language. Your dog has many ways to be distracted, and he is learning to focus on your command, and remember what it means, and then perform it.
8 Fantastic Dog Training Tips:
- * Make one person the primary trainer
- * 15 minutes of lessons every day, or every second day
- * Quiet area with few distractions to start teaching each new command, indoors is best
- * Use food reward, but train before mealtimes (the dogs, not yours!)
- * After mastering the command, change body language, change location, utilize distractions
- * Use learned commands during daily life for reinforcement
- * Reinforce commands by using during daily life (that’s the funnest part!)
- * Substitute command words for adult or previously trained dogs
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