Sunday, October 14, 2012

Useful Dog Training Tips

By Michal Tal


Read carefully the following dog training tips that will help you achieve better results and fast. Always remember to be patient while training your dog, it will have great impact on your dog.

* Dogs, consider digging as their outlet whenever they feel lonely . Nutrient deficiency may also cause this digging. Also known as pica, sometimes the may eat the dirt they dig to supplement their health. Make sure you spend more time with your dog and also give him a health check to keep his digging behavior at bay.

* Communicate to the dog how the drill should be. Be clear on what you want the dog to do. Just commanding the dog without correcting him if he did it wrongly is not advisable.

* Timing means that you should consider the age of the dog when considering how to deal with him. It is best to train dogs while they are still puppies. Always remember that "old dogs can't learn new tricks" saying.

* Provide your puppy with an outlet for his chewing urges. Also, you may practice yelping loudly when your pup starts to chew on you. After yelping, fold your arms and for 10 minutes consider ignoring him. That response is the thing that happens when a pup becomes too rough on other puppies. But depending on your puppy's personality, he may react otherwise, such as biting more. In this case, use a more aggressive approach.

* Never allow a puppy to chew on your fingers. Otherwise, it will become a habit that will be very hard to break when it becomes an adult. Spray you hands and fingers with bitter apple and then allow the dog to proceed. The dog will learn not to bite your fingers without associating any negative thoughts about you as the alpha.

* If you break the task down to something small, then mark/reward and repeat, several times before making the task larger, you will have success without stressing the dog out.

* Agility is a wonderful sport and will forever secure the relationship between you and your dog. Run fast, run clean, and, above all, have fun!

By following these steps, you will establish yourself as the alpha. And, you will have a head start in training your dog because it will have already learned to respect your authority as its leader.




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