Your First Dog Training Guide
Posted by Martin Elmer | Filed under Home & Family
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.
Professional dog trainers make it look so simple to train dogs. But if you think it is, you are wrong. The first time you try yourself, you will probably experience that even the simplest methods are not working. But all dogs try to please their owners, so spend a lot of time with your dog. Then it will love you; and thereby try to obey you.
When the dog is between the age of 3 and 16 weeks, it is a good time to start training it. The bond between you and the dog will take hold. And the training will be easier in the future, if you earn its respect there.
Commands are the first to learn in dog training. But it is not as simple as the experienced dog trainer can make it look. Your dog will probably not obey your commands, when you are trrying the same.
It is the tone of the voice that decides if a command is a success or not. Good dog trainers do not posses special abilities to speak with animals. They do just know how dog behaves; and how the right tone of voice can make it obey. And by practicing you can learn the same.
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.
The best way to train a dog is by praising it, when it has done something right. Even though it can distinguish between right and wrong, you have to learn it the difference. And you do that by giving it proper feedback when training.
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.
As a dog training beginner the voice is the first thing you have to master. When you feel comfortable with that, you can start practicing more complicated training methods.
And a final issue; the temperament and intelligence are different for all dogs. So when a method might work on one dog, it might not on another. So learn which methods that works with your dog; and stick to them.
Martin Elmer is the editor of Hundefan - a website about hundetilbehoer. Here you can also read about transportkasser.
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