Dog FAQ

When it comes to training there are certain rules and tip to help get the maximum potential out of your beloved pet. You can seek professional advice, send them to official dog training centers or attempt to teach them yourself. This article will help you get the basic concepts and top tips on how to train your dog effectively.

• When you are walking your dog, be sure not to let the dog pull on the leash, always keep a little slack so they know who’s taking who on a walk.
• Never feed your dog based on how well they have done, the food should always reinforce an action and never be used to control your dogs behaviour (you wouldn’t starve a misbehaved child would you?).
• If you have to punish your dog, never call it over to you, you need to go to the dog. If you called your dog over and then punished it, it will be reluctant to come to your in the future as dogs only represent a behaviour with a consequence. Dogs will never learn the difference between right and wrong if you go about it in this manner.

You should always take your time in training your dog and teach it one command at a time and never mix them together, wait until you have perfected one before moving on to the next to avoid confusion. After good behaviour at a training session be sure to reward the dog by doing something to boost the effectiveness of your training session, as they will remember the rewards given for having that behaviour. The whole household should treat the dog the same way in order to get the maximum out of your dog training sessions. If different people reward for different things and go about it in different ways, this will just confuse the dog and make the training period even longer then before.

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