Monday 24 March 2014

The Thing to Learn About Puppy Training


Puppy training is awesome; dealing with youthful puppies has to be one of most rewarding, and fun, components of pet ownership. From your puppy's first weeks at home throughout his/her life training never stops. Starting early, being positive, consistent, and patient are the best tips for puppy training.

Expert training for you, and your puppy, can teach you doggy fundamentals as well as general obedience. It includes investing time with him/her so you both are communicating on the same wavelength. Canines and people think differently, and a great dog training coach works with you and your dog by demonstrating to both of you how your relationship should work.  



The Function of Professional Puppy Training.

Puppies are not just blank slates ready for want ever personality you want to imprint on it. Dogs are born with numerous instincts, the better you understand these instincts the better the puppy trainer and pack leader you will be. Many people endeavor puppy training on their own and most dogs, being followers, fit in very well to most households. The strongest drive in any dog is to please his pack leader. Smart dogs that have the potential to go a leader need to be shown good consistent leadership right from the start. If master is inconsistent, or confusing, a smart dog will think he is a better leader and do as he wishes, take advantage, or even challenge the owner. When shown good consistent leadership these same smart dogs develop into great dogs. Even if you have owned dogs all your life, or you are getting a dog for the first time, you can learn how to be a better pack leader.

Tuesday 18 March 2014

First Thing I Teach Any Dog





The first thing I teach any dog is a boundary, usually the front door. I teach them to not cross the threshold until they are told to. I teach this without a command to stop the dog, it is alright if they sit, stand, or lay down, as long as they do not cross the line. It can be any door or gate, in a back door, out the front door or gate, any boundary where you want the dog to not go. This is a handy thing, knowing the dog is not going to go until you say, but I always start with this because it uses their territorial instinct, which is strongly at all ages, to introduce them to my negative and positive in a way they understand immediately. Then, focusing twice as much on positive, incorporate the same consistent negative and positive into a working routine. The working routine is then practiced daily for no longer than five minutes at a time. 

This is a respect building time and should be practiced by everyone that the dog lives with. Some of the time the people should work one on one with the dog, other times working the dog together, so the dog learns that all the people in his pack are above him in the pecking order. The dog has to respect everyone in the house either alone or all together. The practice time will become fun and the dog should get very good at responding to the commands, but even when the dog knows everything you want you should keep practicing. Keep the respect high and let him earn your praise and approval, demanding more and more from his actions and performance. The better the dog works the better the respect and the more you demand the better the dog understands that it is his actions that please and/or displease you. You can then use that respect for behavioral modifications and/or teach the dog to do or not do just about anything.