How to Give Your Dog Basic Training

You don’t have to be a drill sergeant to train your new companion, however training your dog takes time, love, and patience; not to mention oodles of praise. You need to be firm and consistent, but this is a time to bond with your canine companion. These are just the basic steps which will prepare you for teaching the basic and advanced commands and dealing with trouble behaviors.

Steps

 

1-Work with your companion regularly.

Every day at first and then several times a week to keep those lessons fresh and make the exercises second nature for both of you.

2- Keep lessons and work session short enough that your pet (not to mention you yourself) doesn’t get overwhelmed, frustrated, tired, or distracted. Usually 15-20 minutes is plenty.

3-Don’t move on to the next set of exercises until you and your pet have mastered the present ones. And always review what has been learned before.

4-Have fun, but don’t treat it as play time. Your pet needs to know the difference. Right after each session, make time for some type of play or attention to reward you and your pet and signify the end of the “work time”.

5-Praise is your most powerful teaching technique; so use it frequently and enthusiastically!

Don’t hold back! Praise your dog by petting his back, rubbing his ears and head, and using a cheerful voice different from the command tone. Don’t start romping with him at this point, however, or your lesson is over.

• Praise for each thing your dog does properly (even if she didn’t know she was doing it or you didn’t tell her to) as soon as she does it. This reinforces a pleasant result from doing the act.

6-Use praise after correction only after the desired result is obtained.

This will show your dog more clearly the difference in your response between her wrong behavior and the right one.

7-Correction is used stop the wrong action and show the right one.

It should be done firmly, but not angrily. Praise enthusiastically when he does it right, and repeat the exercise two or three more times right away to reinforce the right action.