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When you crate train your puppy, this will allow you to develop a tool that you will be able to use with dog obedience training techniques and which will develop focus and build drive.
Crates are also commonly used to house train a puppy. Dogs do not like to relieve themselves in their beds.
Dogs will walk into a crate without too much of a problem, but once inside, may find the crate too confining and fight to get out. For this type of dog you need to work with patience and train the dog...
•Dog Obedience Training – Some More Basics
The sit and drop are only two exercises that we teach our dogs in dog obedience training. Walking, stays and recalls are equally important.
Walking
You can teach your pup to walk on a loose lead using two positive reward training methods.
•Try this retraining exercise if you have a dog that tries to pull your arm out of its socket. When the lead goes stiff, stop in your tracks. Wait for the lead to go slack, call the dogs name and click and treat as he comes to you. You may find it takes an...
•Dog Obedience Training – Noise Phobias
Thunder and other load bangs can cause some dog’s severe distress. Using some simple dog obedience training methods and perhaps some drugs or herbs we can desensitise dogs.
Using Drugs
Relaxing an anxious dog by using certain drugs is straight forward and is fairly common.
Your standard vet’s drug of choice is one that comes from the benzodiazepine family, an anxiolytic drug. This drug is usually only available with a prescription. The drug is distributed under several names and the...
•Dog Obedience Training – Good Games and Bad Games
We can use dog obedience training techniques and shaping to teach our dogs all sorts of games but sometimes the good games can become bad games.
The following games are a small selection of games that are either good games or bad games.
"Tug of war" game – can be a really good game but only when the game is played on your terms.
This game should only ever start and stop when you say so. You must fetch the toy and present it to the dog and you tell the dog to release the tug toy.
It is a...
•Dog Obedience Training –Overweight Issues
If you are overweight and unfit, would you think it fair and reasonable for your boss to demand you do work that is physically demanding?
If you weighed a lot more than you should then you should be asking yourself, “Would I expect myself to be happy running a 160 meter long obstacle course, jumping over obstacles and clambering over high A Frames, or just being made, on a daily basis, to climb up and down sets of stairs?”
Your answer was probably, “No, of course not”. Yet in every one of the...
•Dog Obedience Training– Does Your Dog Retrieve
A dog that will retrieve anything that is thrown for it will be able to have a great deal of fun whilst doing his dog obedience training exercises.
If you thought that obedience training is all about sit and stay work, you would be wrong. You need to train your dog how to have some fun so that obedience training becomes enjoyable and not a chore.
Having the dog retrieve a toy and give you the toy in your hand, on demand, is easy when linked with my dog obedience training article on teaching...
•Dog Obedience Training – the Beg Trick
Teaching dogs some tricks in between doing the training exercises your instructor is teaching you in your dog obedience training course makes training fun for the dog.
In my courses, I teach tricks that allow students to interact with their dogs on a more personal basis. Some of these exercises also help the dog build muscle. They may also reinforce the click and treat training method.
The beg is a very good exercise for strengthening a dogs back muscles - and it looks cute as well. Bigger...
•Dog Obedience Training – Using the Click and Treat System
The click and treat system, or positive reward training, has become the preferred method used by dog obedience training instructors all over the world.
Take a look at the dog’s world and try getting into your dog’s paws. You have heard your master’s car arrive home and you wait at the door, excited, eyes bright, tongue flopping out, tail madly wagging, and your master walks through the door – oh, oh, he has had a bad, bad day, he is in a sour mood and he has a headache. He totally ignores you...
•Dog Obedience Training – Housetraining
So you have bought a puppy, and within a short time you have a puddle on the carpet. Housetraining can be started immediately you get your pup home, using dog obedience training techniques, because it is really never too early to start.
But first I want to tell you how I use the traditional rolled up newspaper. Take around 6 to 10 pages from a newspaper and starting at one corner, roll the newspaper into a tight tube. Holding the tube in one hand lift it into a striking position, up behind...
•Dog Obedience Training – Solving Dog Aggression
Aggression in dogs can be brought under control and in many cases extinguished by using a combination of dog obedience training techniques in a system that will take some patience and a lot of love.
I have designed a special obedience training system for dogs that will more than likely bring an aggressive dog totally under control and made into a good canine citizen. I believe that if this system is applied diligently and consistently, almost any aggression can be extinguished or at the very...
•Dog Obedience Training – the Alpha Dog
Wolves are our dog’s ancestors and we know, even today, wolf packs have a leader. This leader is known as the alpha dog. This is the boss and the boss entirely dominates the whole pack, and, without adequate dog obedience training, a domestic dog with a strong will, living in a soft household, may begin to think it is the alpha dog and attempt to dominate the family.
At the very least, this type of untrained dog will be very confused about its place in the pack and could become a major problem...
•Dog Obedience Training – Aggressive Dogs.
Dog Obedience Training – Aggressive Dogs.
I do not believe that dogs are born aggressive. There may be exceptions, perhaps where a dog has a tumour or is in constant pain, but generally, an aggressive dog is simply the result of its environment and the owner’s ineffective dog obedience training and lack of management in the pup’s formative years.
What I mean by that is, if the dog is not to become aggressive to both humans and other dogs. It needs to be properly socialised and trained...
•Dog Obedience Training – is Your Dog a Digging Dog?
A digging dog digs for numerous reasons with the principal one being because it is a natural inherited trait. Wolves, who were our dog’s ancestors, would, in the wild, bury excess food that was not immediately eaten, and they could then dig it up later, when needed.
If your dog is a digging dog, chances are you have not had the dog at a dog obedience training club where you could discuss this problem with your instructor.
A dog that is constantly burying his bone is not being naughty. He is...
•Dog Obedience Training – So You Want a Puppy?
Dog Obedience Training – So you Want a Puppy?
If you have ever worked at any type of animal shelter or rescue organization you know that every year, post Christmas, you will be swamped with dozens of unwanted puppies that have not been put through a full dog obedience training course, and are therefore going to, maybe, have some antisocial behaviours that will make the poor creature hard to rehome.
The pup will not have been socialised or worked through an obedience training course that may...
•Dog Obedience Training –Stop Dogs Barking
One of the most prevalent reasons for neighbour disputes is because of having a noisy dog, constantly barking, right across your dividing fence and having the neighbour refusing to take the dog to dog obedience training to fix the problem.
Ask me, I know. Some people just do not want to know that their dog is causing a problem.
In my case, my neighbour’s dog was a dog that fired up when he heard us open the front door of our house at 6am and then, thereafter, anybody walking on our gravel...
•Dog Obedience Training –Shaping vs Luring
There are two basic methods used in training dog obedience. Shaping and luring. Shaping is usually linked with the click and treat, or positive reward, training system.
Shaping a dog to do particular activities produces a dog that will think for itself. If you could read a dogs mind, a shaped dog will be saying “How do I get that treat. What do I need to do? Let’s try this. No. Let’s try that. No. Maybe this will work”
A dog that has been taught solely by luring would be saying “Without any...
•Dog Obedience Training – Dogs That Jump Up
If you observe any group of dogs that are happy to be in each others company, you will find one or two dogs that will try and lick the mouth of another dog. This is simply an inherited trait and is totally natural, but when the pup relates this to his human pack members, it needs to be brought under control and this can be achieved through dog obedience training.
A puppy jumps up for one simple reason. To lick your face. Face licking is a puppy’s way of showing it is subservient to you. You...
•Dog Obedience Training –Clicker Training
The world of dog training for obedience has changed remarkably with the introduction of Clicker Training. This is a system of dog obedience training where a click marks a desired action and the dog is immediately rewarded with a treat.
Clicker training, or the Positive Reward training method, is relatively new within the animal training world, and particularly in the obedience training of dogs, but has very quickly taken over from the harsh, negative method of choke chain training.
The system...
•Dog Obedience Training – Fun and Games
For the majority of people, the main reason for getting a dog is for companionship and it follows then that you should complete a dog obedience training course and strive to build a really good, fun relationship with your canine companion.
In all the basic obedience dog training courses I instruct I insist the handlers use the “F” word as much as physically possible, right through the whole training course. The word I mean is of course “FUN”.
Dog ownership is not all about obedience training...
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