The first time you bring home your dog, it can be a very overwhelming experience. All dogs need care and attention, so you will make both your own and your dogs life much easier, if you learn it to behave right from the beginning. And that is done best with the right training.

It looks so simple, when experienced dog trainers trains dogs. But you will probably find even the simplest methods to be difficult in practice. But before you give up, you must remember that a dog try to please its owner. So spend a lot of time with your dog. Then it will both love and obey you.

The best time to start training your dog is between the age of 3 and 16 weeks. Here the bond between it and you will take hold. So if you earn its respect as the master, the training will be easier in the future.

The first thing you need to learn your dog is to obey commands. And again it looks easy when the experienced dog trainer does it. But when you are trying the same, the dog might just look stupid at you and ignore your wishes.

The secret is in the tone of the voice. Professional dog trainers do not posses special animal talking skills; they are just experienced in dog behavior and know how voice can get the dog to do, what they want. And you can learn the same by practicing.

Your command tone must be firm; but also non-threatening. You must show who is the dominating part in the relationship between you and the dog. If you not do so, you will not be able to make your dog obey. And you cannot do it by threatening or yelling at your dog. It will only make it fear you.

Instead you should praise your dog, when it is doing something right. A positive attitude is the most effective thing in dog training. A dog is able to distinguish between right and wrong; but it is not capable to understand the difference without the proper feedback from the trainer.

So use your voice to tell the dog, if it is doing things right or wrong. This way it can learn what is good behavior. The dog is really trying to follow your instructions to please you.

When you master the tone of the voice, you can start to search for more complicated training methods to take the training even further.

And a final advice; all dogs have different temperament and intelligence. So what might work on one dog, is not always working on other dogs. So find the methods that work with your dog.

Martin Elmer is the editor of Hundefan – a website about tilbehoer til hunde. Here you can also read about hundetaske.

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