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- A Guide To Dog Training
- Choosing The Right Collar For Your Puppy
- Clicker Training Your Dog
- Dog Training Know The Difference Types
- Effectively Housebreaking Your Puppy
- Handy Dog Training Tips
- How To Choose A Good Obedience School For
Your Dog
A Guide To Dog Training
These
trainings vary in price and each one them has something different to
offer.
Before starting dog training, it is best that you know your options
well. These days you can find many types of dog training, in many
different places. These trainings vary in price and each one them has
something different to offer.
The first type
of dog training is known as puppy preschool. This is a dog training
course meant for puppies that are about 6 weeks to 5 months old. These
puppy preschool classes generally last for no more than 6 to 8 weeks.
In these training sessions, your puppy is essentially taught how to
socialize with people and as well as other puppies. Here your puppy
also begins to learn how to sit down, stay at a place, and how to come.
The second type
of dog training course is meant for the dogs that are at least 5 months
old. This type of dog training is known as the basic dog training. The
duration of these classes is usually about 8 to 10 weeks. This is the
basic course, where your dog is taught the art of walking properly on a
leash, sitting, staying, coming and heeling.
The third type
of dog training course is known as the intermediate dog training. This
dog training aims at teaching the dog mostly the same things that are
taught in the basic training course, in a more detailed form. Here the
dog is trained to stay for a longer span of time, and is also taught to
follow the orders given by other people.
The
intermediate dog training generally lasts for about 8 to 10
weeks, and is meant for those that are no less than 5 months old. It is
essential for the dog to have completed its basic dog training course,
or to be accustomed to the basic commands that could have been taught
by the owner.
The next type
of training course is known as the advanced dog training course.
Here, once again, the course is quite similar to its previous one,
i.e., the intermediate dog training course, except for the fact that
this time it is more detailed. Here, the dog is taught how to sit even
without you in the view.
This training
course is about 8 to 10 weeks long, and is meant for those that
have completed their intermediate training. Here, they are also trained
to walk beside their owners without a leash. Moreover, it gradually
prepares the dog to take the Canine Good Citizen training course.
The Canine
Good Citizen training for dogs is the last course. To pass this
course, your dog will be taught the 10 necessary aspects.
This course is strictly meant for those dogs that have completed all
the previous courses. The test is quite tough and can only be passed if
the dog is really well behaved. Depending on whether your dog can pass,
the course can last for several weeks.
Keeping this information in mind, you should be able to decide the dog
training course best suited for your dog. However, you may seek the
opinion of your local dog trainers to know more. Many trainers consult
for free. So now you should be at least a step closer to introducing
your dog into a training course!
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Choosing The Right
Collar For Your Puppy
Your puppy’s name may be stitched on top of the collar for recognition
reasons
Whether the worry is to teach your dog or pass on individuality to it,
dog collars and straps represent a vital role. Dog collars are
available in a selection of forms, dimensions and fashions, and are
much of a style statement these days. A dog collar may well be a
reprieve for your puppy if, God forbid, it runs away from your home.
With such an extensive selection of dog collars to be had, opting for
the appropriate one for your puppy can be to a certain extent nerve
racking. The collar ought to be chosen depending upon your choices and
your puppy’s behavior. For a rather docile puppy, a collar made up of
soft cloth is fairly suitable. On the other hand, a stubborn puppy has
to be restricted by a fast jerk of a spiked collar. A dog trainer may
give you a hand in making the appropriate selection of a dog collar for
your loyal canine buddy.
The buckle range is mainly the regular sort of dog collar. A broad
selection of cloth may be used to make up a buckle collar, featuring a
variety of colors and designs. Your puppy’s name may be stitched on top
of the collar for recognition reasons. Buckle collar is made up of a
sequence of spaced holes, and the buckle is fixed firmly to arrive at
the desired size.
Buckle collar is the most standard type, which can be improved to make
sure of additional protection for the puppy. For example, breakaway
collars are planned to pull to pieces under excessive trauma. A few
collar styles are set with discharge flaps that make sure of a quick
taking away of the collar, comparative to the usual buckle style. Such
differences may perhaps help out to avoid your puppy from gasping in
unexpected state of affairs.
One more collar style is a prong collar, which is fairly of assistance
if your puppy is to a certain extent stiff and usually pulls hard while
on leash. A prong collar has vertical metal prongs that are spaced in
an even way in the region of the inside of the collar. Upon tugging the
attached strap, the prongs poke your puppy's neck, in this manner
slowing down its disorderly actions. The expression "prong collar" does
sound as a bit unsafe for your canine. Nevertheless, when used
properly, prong collars by no means cause any harm to the puppy, and
are a great deal safer than even other styles of dog collars.
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Clicker Training Your Dog
Any kind of training is a strenuous and rigorous process and needs time
and patience.
If you are looking to train your dog you might consider using the
‘clicker training’ method, which has recently become popular amongst
dog trainers all over the country. In this method the trainer has to
make use of a clicker, a tiny plastic box with a metal button which
makes a distinctive click sound once the button has been pressed. The
training method is simple and is in many ways parallel to the positive
training method. Here is what you have to do.
Decide on a certain behavior which you want to teach or reinforce your
dog to do. A number of behaviors/actions come naturally to the dog like
sitting, eating, standing, barking etc. and these need just to be
reinforced so that your dog knows when you want him to do what. Various
other actions like acting dead, shaking hands, rolling over etc. do not
come naturally to the dog and need to be taught. Clicker training can
be used to do both.
Clicker training works according to the basic principles of operant
conditioning, by associating the sound of the clicker with a food item
which the dog particularly likes. Now all you have to do is use the
clicker to command the dog to do something, the dog, given that he
associates the sound of the clicker with the food, immediately obliges
and the training is complete.
Let us take an example to illustrate the method better, suppose you
want to teach your dog to sit, you put a cookie on your dog's nose
playfully and then move it upwards, the dog will obviously follow the
movement of the biscuit with its nose and will then naturally rest its
posterior on the floor, thereby putting himself in a sitting position.
Now time your clicking to be so accurate as to occur right as the dog
seats himself, now give him the biscuit and praise him.
Continue doing this for sometime till the dog begins to associate the
clicking with the food until the click makes him sit without you luring
him with treats. Now teach him another behavior, but remember to attach
the clicking cue only once the animal himself offers you the behavior
otherwise the clicking will not be connected to anything in the dog's
head and he will be confused regarding what it means.
Your dog is one smart little animal and it's time you gave him due
credit for that. A number of trainers have been known to use negative
reinforcement techniques alongside the clicker method but this simply
does’t work because punishment at all times creates a number of
unwanted behavior even if it serves the primary purpose of teaching the
dog to not do something temporarily.
Any kind of training is a strenuous and rigorous process and needs time
and patience. Although clicker training method has a high success rate
it might not work for certain types of dogs, if you see that it’s not
working for your pet you would be well advised to use some other
technique to teach it tricks.
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Dog Training Know
The Difference Types
The types of dog training change with the varying stages of development
in the dog.
Every dog owner must take up dog training to know and handle a dog
better. Appreciating a well-mannered dog is something that all can do,
training is what makes things difficult. Now, there are many kinds of
dog training available but not all will suit your dog.
Most dog owners and also people in general are unaware of the various
kinds of dog trainings provided. The types of dog training change with
the varying stages of development in the dog.
While some dogs have never been trained, some others have already
undertaken training before. Therefore, it becomes all the more
essential to analyze and know what type of dog training your dog needs.
The first level of dog training is the basic dog training. The basic
training is meant for beginners — either a puppy or a grown-up dog that
is being trained for the first time. This level includes only the
rudiments — how to make a dog sit, stay and come when called. Some part
of it also aims at teaching the dog to socialize with other dogs and
people in a proper way. This is particularly given to puppies. And if
your dog had never taken training before, this basic level is where to
start with.
The next level is the intermediate level. This level of dog training is
not for puppies, but for those adult dogs that have undertaken the
basics either formally or at home by their own owners. This
intermediate type of training trains a dog to heel, walk properly on a
leash, fetch something and return. It also revises the basics of
sitting, staying and coming etc.
The third and final type of dog training is the advanced course. This
level is only meant for those dogs which have been through a minimum of
one training course before and have passed it too. Here, in the
advanced level, the different elements of the basic and intermediate
courses are revised in details right at the start of the course. Then
it goes to train the dog to act according to various commands and hand
signals like “come”, “stay”, “sit”, “heel”, “fetch”, “lie down” et al.
When the dog gets accustomed to hand signals, the advanced course takes
care of teaching the dog how to walk and stay beside the master at all
times even without a leash. It also teaches the dog to have focus in
its master, that is, to pay attention and stop getting distracted. The
advanced level of dog training is usually suited to very obedient and
well-mannered dogs.
Like all good trainings, dog trainings should also have motivators like
prizes and rewards to yield better and more positive results. Hitting
and yelling at the dog to make it pick up one action is not a wise
technique while training. Instead of being a success, chances are that
it will give negative output. So you must make sure that the dog
training you assign your dog is a positive one, which indulges in
positive strategies.
You must also be careful about choosing the right course for your
dog—the course best-suited to it. That way, you may soon be able to
boast of owning a dog that is obedient, well-mannered, well adjusted
and the perfect pet one can have!
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Effectively
Housebreaking Your Puppy
The first lesson in housebreaking, ‘communicate with your dog’. Make
sure you let your dog know that you don’t like him/her peeing all over
the drawing room loud and clear.
One of the most annoying things about pet dogs is their habit of
answering to calls of nature almost anywhere they feel like it. Your
bedroom rug, the drawing room sofa, your Persian carpet; everything
seems as good a place as any for your little pup to go cool his
bladders on.
If you have just brought your pup home therefore, buckle up and get
ready to save your upholstery and carpets by means of a simple method
we call Housebreaking.
Now, here’s what housebreaking is all about. We humans tend to visit
the toilet when we feel like we must relieve ourselves, in one way or
the other (thank God for that!). However, our pooches don’t have mother
potty training them at the age of 1, telling them to take a crap at
some fixed time on a shiny blue potty, and hence they tend to treat
everything like a big old lavatory. And that would be ok if we were
dogs perhaps but most average human beings tend not to like that sort
of thing. So what we have to do is potty train our doggies ourselves.
And this training, to cut a long story short, is what we call
‘housebreaking’.
Now, Facts
First. Remember,
• No pup is able to keep himself from peeing or …well…relieving himself
in some other form, till about 12 weeks of age. Your attempts at
training your dog therefore must begin before this.
• Most puppies need to engage in bathroom related activities
approximately 6-7 times a day
• Every time your dog seems to be following its tail rather slowly, and
doing giddy rounds around a non-descriptive area put your shoes on to
take it out because it’s getting ready to relieve itself
• Take your dog out every time it has a meal because food immediately
puts pressure on its colon and bladder.
The first lesson in housebreaking, ‘communicate with your dog’. Make
sure you let your dog know that you don’t like him peeing all over the
drawing room loud and clear. No there isn’t any need to use violence;
just a loud “NO’ should do the trick. For best results catch him in the
act so that he has no problem in associating the rebuke with the exact
action.
Keep a keen eye on your pooch. As soon as he looks like he could do
with a visit to the good old lavatory take him out. Once he relieves
himself at the right place pat him to show how much you appreciate the
fact that he didn’t pee all over your favorite rug. Give him a biscuit,
and an appreciative nod and he’ll know.
See, dogs are like politicians, always eager to please. They will do
anything to get cuddled and patted by their masters, thus it’s always
easy to make them do things as per your requirements. You want him/her
to pee outside? Show him/her how happy you are when he/she does so and
he’ll/she’ll do it always, you want him/her to poop every morning? Give
him/her a friendly pat and he’ll/she’ll bond off to be at it everyday.
For your part make sure you know your dog’s habits, build your routine
round his, try and find out what his usual urinating or defecating
times are, is it after dinner? Before going to bed? Or right in the
morning? Take him/her out accordingly.
Proper communication will ensure your pooch's proper health and your
peace, and of course a clean bedroom rug.
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Handy Dog Training Tips
First
It’s funny how you’ll see your own mood reflected in his/her responses
Despite what it seems to be from a distance, dog training doesn’t need
you to be a fearless Hercules, all it asks of you is to keep a few
basics in mind. First, establish who the boss is, remind your dog again
and again that you are the one on two feet while he/she is still on all
fours, and thus what you say is Gospel and what he/she barks is not.
Second,
speak in a tone which oozes superiority, something on the lines of your
first grade math teacher.
Third,
routine is everything so keep your training tactics consistent. Once
you master these three techniques you will be the master of every
single dog around!
Your heart might melt into a mush every time your cute little pup cocks
his head, but don’t let that get in the way of your establishing who
the master is. Go gooey eyed too frequently and you are likely to pay
with your carpets and sandals, which it will most merrily chew through.
Treat your pup the way you would treat a little kid, setting it strict
boundaries and letting it know what goes and what most definitely
doesn’t. Establish gestures like pointing etc. which will give the dog
a cue to act in a certain way.
You might not think it possible but dogs, like your kids, can tell when
you mean business, slacken up a bit with them and they’ll know you can
be taken for a ride. Interestingly enough they also have this instinct
for intonation; be strict when you want him to stay put at the yard,
but be enthusiastic when you are asking him/her if he would like to go
for a walk.
It’s funny how you’ll see your own mood reflected in his responses.
This is the primary step for you to establish the kind of communication
with your dog which will allow you to calm him or set him up for work
with a single word.
One of the main methods of training your dog is to keep a certain
consistency in your approach towards him/her. Keep your intonations,
gestures and words for expressing dissatisfaction the same every time,
so that he gets used to the idea easily. A young pup who grows up with
a certain set of commands will respond to them more promptly than one
who is frequently confused by conflicting orders.
The more consistent your commands are, the better trained your dog is,
the better trained your dog is the greater your confidence in him
regarding his obedience to you.
A few other ways of establishing consistency are to use the same door
when taking your doggie out for a walk, give him the same kind of pat
every night before retiring for the day, so that he knows exactly what
time it is.
Little things like these will help you predict your dog’s behavior more
accurately.
Most importantly, however, remember to shower your love and affection
on the little one, continue your training through little games which he
might enjoy, and remember to treat him/her every time he does a task
well, after all like a child it too needs to be appreciated and given
its bit of fun.
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How To Choose A Good
Obedience School For Your Dog
Your dog will most likely even take pleasure in this, as he/she will be
able to pass time with you, which is all that he/she in fact wants in
the first place.
Every person desires for a dog that is well trained, but at times your
pet may be a little problematic or you simply may not have the time or
be acquainted with how to train him correctly. Fortunately you can get
assistance and it is as easy as signing up your dog in a dog obedience
school.
Maybe you have come across people with disobedient dogs, or possibly
even have prepared to accept to yourself to believe that your dog will
by no means do as he is told. Perhaps you have got accustomed to
returning home from work and finding chewed up shoes and litter all
over the house.
Possibly you have even started to take your dog for a walk at night
because that is when no neighbors are outside, because the reason that
you just cannot manage him/her when people and other dogs are all over
within the area.
You do not have to give up yourself to start believing that your dog
will by no means be controlled and in reality you are accountable to
yourself and your pet to do all the things that you can in order to get
him trained appropriately. Possessing a well bred dog can put away
difficulties for both yourself and your pet.
A disobedient dog may perhaps bite off a neighbor or child creating
legal troubles for you. If your dog howls a lot and tries to get loose
most of the time you might get yourself in a problem with the police as
well. And most significantly, if your dog will not come up to you when
called, you have very few ways to keep him away from creating any
trouble.
A trainer with a dog obedience school will give you an idea about you
can establish contact with your pet to make him to pay attention to
you. He will be trained how to act with people around and also with
other dogs and the fundamental instructions such as “sit”, “down”,
“heel” and “stay”. Your dog will most likely even take pleasure in
this, as he will be able to pass time with you, which is all that he in
fact wants in the first place.
Selection of a dog obedience school is sort of like deciding on a
school for your kids - you would like to be in no doubt to send him to
the proper one. Of course, given that you will in all probability be
attending as well, you would like one that works for the both of you so
you have to do a bit of investigation before you decide on the school.
One thing to think about when making inquires about dog obedience
schools is a recommendation from others who have been at the school.
Maybe you have a co-worker, a neighbor, or a friend you can inquire
from. If not, feel free to request the school for recommendations and
call up somebody who has experienced the course. You ought to have a
list of essential queries you can inquire about the school and the
effect of the dogs training. If you get encouraging replies then you
might have found your school, or else, it is time to shift on to the
subsequent alternative.
One more thing you have to do when cutting down your selection of
obedience schools is to drop in at the “campus”. Just like selecting a
college, you would like to be convinced that the school puts forward a
fine atmosphere. Be sure that the school appears well structured and
the instructors are well informed. In addition, you will almost
certainly wish for a pleasant surrounding where your dog and you feel
at ease.
Chatting up with the instructors at the school is also a good plan.
Find out about the techniques that each trainer uses and you may even
bring in them to your dog to be certain they will get along. Your
training will be much more effective if both you and your dog are at
ease with the trainer.
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