BASIC DOG TRAINING

If you have a new dog or puppy, you may be interested in getting somebasic dog training. Dog training can be taught by an obedience instructor,or you can do the dog training yourself.

Dog training with an obedience instructor can vary in price and it usuallytakes place in a class. If you do the dog training yourself, it is usually freeand you can do it from your own home. If you do choose to do the dogtraining yourself, it is best to get educated on dog training.

There are 3 basic things your dog should learn through basic dog training.These are: sit, stay, and come. The first part of dog training is to teach yourdog to sit. To start this dog training, you will first need some dog treats.Do this dog training in a quiet environment so your dog doesn't getdistracted. Tell your dog to sit repeatedly as you hold the dog treat justover their head. This way the dog has to look up and may sit on there ownto reach the treat.

If not, gently push there rear down. When they sit, praise them and rewardthem with a treat. This kind of dog training works because the dogconstantly hears "sit" and will learn to associate the command with sittingand receiving praise.

The next part of dog training is to teach your dog to stay. This is often adifficult part of dog training. This kind of dog training is also incorporatedwith teaching your dog the command "come." Sit your dog in an area withno directions.

Tell your dog to stay repeatedly as you back away. Start out by keeping eyecontact with the dog. If the dog gets up, tell it "no" and start again.Remember this dog training takes a while. You may need someone to sitwith the dog to help reinforce the dog to stay the first few times.

Once you have made progress with this dog training, you then start bywalking away with your back turned. Dogs will often get up to follow youat this point. Tell your dog "no" and start the dog training again byrepeatedly telling your dog to stay as you walk away.

Once your dog has mastered this part, you can teach it to come. After yourdog has stayed, tell it to "come." Have a happy voice and pat your knee asyou say "come." Your dog should respond to this dog training right awayand you may then reward it.

To teach your dog tricks even easy ones you need to have some smallreward treats, be in a quiet suitable place and keep the training sessions to10 - 15 minutes or your dog will start to get board, remember when he getssomething right lots of praise and a reward treat, just be careful not to gethim over excited or he will loose concentration.

The high five, like a lot of tricks the high five is a progression of an earliertrick, in this cast the paw trick. Hold a treat in your fingers and raise yourhand slightly higher than you would for the paw trick. You dog will thinkyou want to do the paw trick and will reach for the treat with his paw as wetaught him earlier, as he reaches up you say “high five” and give him thetreat. Once your dog has mastered the paw trick this one should be veryeasy to learn and with just a few sessions he will be doing it on hand signalrather than voice control.

Getting your dog to jump through a hoop, before you start this one I wouldjust like to ask you to be a little sensible and not hold the hoop too high asyou do not want your dog to heart himself while doing the trick. Sit yourdog on one side of a hoola hoop, get the dogs attention on your hand on theother side of the hoop take a treat in your hand and give the dog thecommand to release him from the sit, at first he may attempt to go aroundor under the hoop, if this happens start again, your dog wants the treat andwill soon learn that going around or under does not get it so he will soonstart going through it, when he does say hoopla and give him the treat.

He will soon be jumping through the hoop on the command of hoopla. When Istarted doing this trick I had a medium sized dog (a Labrador) so I startedwith the hoop 6 inches from the ground and slowly raised it to waistheight, if you have a smaller dog you might want to start with the hooptouching the ground so the dog just goes through the hoop and then slowlyraise it as he gets used to the trick.

Always use praise instead of punishment with dog training. Dogs respondbest to positive dog training, rather than negative. With all of this in mind,you should be able to teach your dog the 3 basis commands.Follow all of this advice and you should soon have a more obedient dogthat is worth everyone's praise!

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