A Quick Essay About Dog Training
You would need to understand your dog, make it pay attention and train it consistently in order to achieve the best training results.
You as the owner/trainer would need to be consistent to train your dog properly. A dog must understand that there are things it should and shouldn’t do. Reinforce this by giving your dog a treat should he or she follow the rules, and punishing him or her for breaking the rules – it is important to make sure the rules are all followed. Dogs traditionally respect consistent leaders. If you know how to push the right buttons, your dog can give you the respect you deserve.
Next, your dog needs to consistently focus on you as the trainer without minding other distractions. If a dog isn’t focused, he or she would routinely ignore, not understand, or refuse to understand your commands. Here are a few quick examples on how you can encourage your dog to pay attention to you. Most dogs understand that they have a name, so call your dog by its name and have it look at you when you say “Watch”. Don’t be surprised if after a few drills, your dog will be “watching” whenever you ask him or her to. Once you and your dog perfect the “Watch” command, your next lesson would be on how to give your dog a longer attention span. As a follow-up to the “Watch” command, give the command after you hold a doggy treat with your teeth in front of your dog. Develop your dog’s ability to pay attention by standing in position for a few seconds, then praising. This exercise can be repeated until your dog is able to hold its attention on you for a minute or more. It’s not that hard to develop a good attention span in your pet dog.
Effective dog obedience training can truly be achieved if you know how your dog thinks. A dog’s focus is usually limited to a short period of time. This attention span usually lasts no more than twenty minutes, and once the twenty minutes is up, dogs usually become listless and unfocused. Try limiting your dog’s training schedule to twenty to thirty minutes. A fun training session could lead to your dog developing better attention span. Let’s face it, dogs do not normally enjoy training – you will need to make them enjoy it somehow. Your dog needs to appreciate training and why you are doing it for him or her. You can never have enough treats as a prize for successfully obeyed commands – and you should also sound like you mean it when you give praise. Dogs train better when they actually look forward to training.
Let this serve as a beginner’s guide – the shortest possible way to get you started on effectively training your dog for obedience. Once you’ve mastered everything there is to know about obedience training (including all of this article), you should have the rewarding feeling of being a good owner and a good obedience trainer to your dog.
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categories: Pets,Dogs
Tags: dog training, dogs, pets
dog training | Louis Rosenthal | 28 August 2010 |
