Obedience Train Your Dog: How To Have A Content Dog And A Stress-Free Owner
Main Content Add commentsIs your dog’s bad behavior causing you stress? Don’t procrastinate. It’s time to begin some serious obedience training for your dog. This means you should be consistent and persistent with your training. However, make sure your training is always fun or your dog may get bored!
A Dog’s Basic Need
With power comes great responsibility. If you don’t provide your dog’s basic needs, don’t be surprised if your dog behaves badly. What are the basic needs? Here are the main ones:
- water and food
- regular daily exercise
- company and social interaction
- an environment which stimulates him.
The main principle in dog training is to understand positive and negative reinforcement. When your dog engages in a behavior that is desired, you should reward him with a treat or affection. The treat or affection must come as soon after the behavior as humanly possible in order for it to be effective.
It’s best to focus on positive reinforcement for desired behaviors rather than negative reinforcement for unwanted behaviors. This has been found to be a more efficient way of training.
Physical punishment is not an effective or humane way to train dogs and will only lead to your dog being neurotic and fearful. That’s not going to be a good relationship between man and dog. You can say a firm “No” in a growling tone of voice to stop him behaving badly. Ignoring your dog and turning away from him is the most productive thing for you to do when he does something you don’t like. Dogs love attention and if you ignore him - that will be negative reinforcement in itself.
You should learn to see your dog as a dog, not a human being. It will help you to do this if you study dog communication and the dynamics of a dog pack. You read about what their body language means. They have various ways of communicating: with their tail, head position, ear position, mouth and teeth and vocally with various kinds of barks, growls and whines.
For effective training, you must position yourself as the alpha dog or pack leader. If your dog is pack leader, he is never going to be well-behaved for you because he thinks you are one of his pack. Some advice on positioning yourself up as alpha dog:
-eat a some food in front of your dog just before you feed him. The alpha dog always eats before the pack members.
-don’t allow him to onto the sofa or bed. The pack leader sleeps on higher ground.
-make sure you go through doors before your dog.
This is an introduction to some important points in dog training. I recommend you look into the most systematic of training methods: clicker training.
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