Dog Training information and Tips

• Don't let your dog ignore a command
• Always enforce a given command
• Don't give a command you’re not prepared to enforce

Dog training can be used to help fulfill some of your pets basic needs, such as exercise and constructive social interaction. This will cut the amount of stress felt from living a sedentary life.

Obedience training will give your pet a job to do and can be useful in redirecting the mental energy of an animal that was meant for work.

Dog Training tips for training with the leash and collar

• Use the leash to control your pet
• Keep the leash loose
• Learn how to make a leash correction

Dog training - reward training tips

• Use rewards as a lure
• Use rewards to strengthen behavior
• Reward your pet's best response

Training tips in General

1. Use you pet's name to get its attention. You must be able to get a well defined orientation response from your dog to have control. Build attention by using your pets name to call it for food, walks, and play. Do this randomly 10 times a day. Never punish your pet for coming to you or by calling it.
   
   
2. Always enforce commands that you give, and don't constantly repeat commands. Don't let your dog ignore a command. If your not serious about enforcing a command, don't give it.
   
   
3. In dog training timing is a form of communication. Timing is one of the key elements of animal training. It does not matter what training method you use, work at developing the proper timing for each technique.
   
   
4. Reinforce desirable behavior.
   
   
5. Do not reinforce undesired behavior.
   
   
6. Do not punish desirable behavior. Such as having your puppy eliminate outside and then immediately leaving the puppy. If the puppy wants to be with you leaving punishes the pup for doing the right behavior.

 

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Dog training tips

Every dog possesses an individual personality and temperament along with inherited characteristics. Basic temperament and breed characteristics can't be changed, but through training they can be redirected and channeled into desirable behaviors.

While training, you always want to keep the three P's in mind: Practice, Praise, and Patience. Whenever you are interacting with your dog you are training. More than likely you are doing one of the following. Praise (reinforcement), Ignoring, or Correcting (PIC). Don't ignore or correct good behavior. Do not attend only to bad behavior. Do not praise or reinforce bad behavior.

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