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My dog ADORES barking, and barks at EVERYONE. He just finished shredding the furniture legs. In his spare time, he enjoys leaping up on my guests, and urinating in the potted plant and elsewhere. Yuk, and double Yuk!!
Having a new dog can be a very challenging time when you’re faced with behavior problems. However, excellent improvement will happen when you use a powerful system to teach your dog every day. With the right information and system, she CAN make HUGE strides in 7 just days.
With the right information and a patient attitude, training your dog can be enjoyable for both of you. When you see how well your dog is learning the new commands, it will become fun, and you will both look forward to lessons. Also, knowing the basic commands like Come, Sit, Stay, and Heel will help keep your dog safe in dangerous situations, such as around traffic or strangers.
Make one person responsible for training your pet. This is important because the dog will find it easiest to become familiar with one person and their training methods because of the consistency of the training method. All the people that share a dwelling with the animal need to know that they must follow the training formula of the head trainer. When kids assist, they’ll need to be supervised, hopefully by the chief trainer.
Sessions should be less than 15 minutes long, because of a dogs shorter attention span. Sessions can be 10-15 minutes long every day, or every other day. If you’ve had a bad day or don’t feel very patient, it’s probably best to skip a session, since you won’t be at your best.
Merging training into the dogs life between lessons will help to reinforce the commands that are being learned. For example, occasionally throughout the day, give your dog the Sit command (if you’ve already mastered that in your lessons.)
If you use food rewards, have your training sessions before your dogs mealtimes to make sure that he is hungry and motivated.
Start the instruction in a quiet area, by yourself. Try to make yourself the most interesting thing in the room, by minimizing distractions. This will make it easier for her to focus on learning the new command. Once she has mastered the command, add distractions. These could include having other people present, or conducting the lesson in a different room.
After these successes, reinforce the new orders using different body positions (on his left, right, with you sitting or standing, etc.), in other rooms of the house, and finally, outdoors on a lead. After a number of lessons, he’ll begin to understand that a command means that he should do the same thing each time, no matter where you are, or what your body language is.
If your dog isn’t a puppy, don’t despair. Older dogs frequently have longer attention spans than puppies, letting him learn faster and easier. This will balance out the fact that he may have had previous training that was less than ideal, that will need to be unlearned.
Previous training could cause her to link a certain behaviour with the command word that you’re using. Maybe your dog is having trouble grasping what response you want for the word Come, use the same training sequence using Here, instead.
When you start using the command in a new situation, your pet may act a bit confused. Be relaxed, and allow yourself to back up the training a step or two, or give extra reinforcement in the new situation. It’s the way your dog learns to focus on your command, in spite of distractions that occur.
8 Essential Dog Training Tips:
* One person is the chief trainer
* 15 minutes every other day, or every day
* Quiet area with few distractions to start teaching each new command, indoors is best
* Use food reward, but train before mealtimes (the dogs, not yours!)
* After mastering the command, change body language, change location, utilize distractions
* Use learned commands during daily life for reinforcement
* Be willing to substitute command words when teaching an older or previously trained dog
* Substitute command words for adult or previously trained dogs
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