Training to suit you
Dog Clicker Training
If you're thinking of training your dog some basic tricks or even some helpful habits, then you can try dog clicker training. You don't have to be a dog expert if you want to train your dog using this methodology, for you can start getting acquainted with this dog training methodology by reading this article thoroughly, and you will get the basic and the fundamental ideas that you will need to start training your dog using a clicker.
Clickers have been used to train animals at the zoo like birds, monkeys, and dolphins. Given that this has been effective for these animals, using this for dogs is never impossible. The most basic tip in clicker training your dog is using the clicker device. You have to practice clicking the device twice quickly, so that you can be consistent when you do this because this is the core of this training. Without this, you can't get the results that you need, so you have to be consistent on how you click on this because this will serve as your communication bridge to the animal. By clicking the device twice, you can give the dog a sign that you appreciate what the dog did and that you will be rewarding it with a nice treat. You can also click once for another task, so it is important that you establish the difference between clicking once and clicking twice. When you click twice, you have to make sure that you're doing this at the same time that the animal is performing the task, because if you do it earlier or later than the action, it will give a wrong impression to the animal and you can not achieve what you want to achieve. Again, you have to totally consistent in whatever you do with the clicker.
Dog clicker training is one effective way to train your pet. With those basic tips, you can already have a good start in training your dog, and in no time, you can already produce a talented and obedient dog. Thus, you better start training your dog now so that you can already see the results right away.
Dog Training - House Training Your New Puppy
Guide To Dog Training - Tricks To Get The New Pup House Trained
So you brought home a puppy and want to keep it as a pet. There are bound to be changes because of what you did. In order to avoid completely disrupting everyday household activities, better get puppy training started. It is something the new four-legged family member must learn right away.
Toileting learned by the puppy during his first couple of months' stay in the house will stay with him for a lifetime. It's critical that it be done right on the first attempt. Note: most dogs wind up in animal shelters because they had unresolved house training woes.
Dog Training Done The Smart Way
Don't expect the puppy to be completely dog trained before hitting six months. This would be unreasonable. He can't fully control his bowel and bladder movements yet. Puppies can't be left alone for lengthy periods.
Puppy supervision during this time is also a must. However, owners can't guarantee to always be there. If you'll be unavailable for quite a while, keep the pup in a puppy-proof space with the floor covered in disposable, absorptive material or newspapers.
The tiny critter will pee and poo everywhere at first, but eventually he'll favor one corner. Gradually make the paper-filled area smaller until the puppy limits doing his business on the toileting papers. Floor in the doggis-proof room should be different from that of other parts of the house. Soon, the puppy will only eliminate on that specific surface and nowhere else.
If the goal was to simply have the puppy go on papers, congratulations. You're finished with dog training. For owners who'd rather have their pups do number one and two outside, use of the pup-proof room should be limited to instances when they can't be home to supervise. Most puppies initially stay in crates. During this time, cover an area of the crate with paper. Dogs by nature are neat creatures. They'll try their hardest to avoid dirtying the area where they sleep, boosting their self-control.
Outdoor training goes this way. You take the little barker out to an assigned toilet location at 45-minute intervals. Each time he goes on the chosen area, go crazy with the praises. This is a major learning accomplishment in living in your home so don't be stingy with the compliments.
Feeding schedules for pets have to be consistent to be able to anticipate their needs. There's nothing wrong with unrestricted drinking water access, but the same doesn't apply to food. Ditto for letting him do whatever he wants in the house. Wait until he graduates from dog training before doing this. To hasten the process, put a collar with a long lead on him and tie the opposite end on your waistline. He'll like the proximity and minimize the mistakes.
Still, accidents can't be entirely avoided. When they happen, hold off the reprimands. Your dog won't get what brought on the punishment. It might even make him nervous to the point that he thinks he was punished because he eliminated. You could find yourself back to square one.
Dog training requires both a sense of humor and a bit of patience. Be laid back without straying from the pup training schedule you outlined for your pet. The puppy will take its cue from your behavior and be relaxed as well. This will make learning the house training particulars easier.
The bonding period with the puppy is also a good time to begin introducing other directives or commands such as down, sit, stay and come. Go online to find out more about dog training advice. For related videos go to my site
Mal-Shi Shih-Tzu puppies. Cheats
Valintine (white Shih-Tzu, 7 months) and Samu (Mal-shi, 4 months old) show off their tricks first. Sit down, lay down and turn. Samu captured only on the spin-trick. I will teach some new tricks and get to another video!
Intelligent Dog Training
One old joke said that the first and most important step in training a dog was to make sure that you were smarter than the dog, the implication being that you should train the dog instead of the dog training you. This is not a joke. It is a reality. At the time of writing this my best friend is letting her puppy train her. I cannot convince her to train the dog instead. She is otherwise very intelligent.
Until a few years ago most people believed that to successfully train a dog you had to be harsh and tough, to show him who was boss. There were several difficulties with this philosophy. Often the owner would pay someone else to train his dog. Then the dog would obey the trainer out of fear but would not do anything for the owner because he was not afraid of the owner. Many people felt kind-hearted and chose to let the dog do whatever it wanted instead of harshly training it. The result was that the dog was totally untrained and became a nuisance to the whole neighborhood. In extreme cases one of the neighbors poisoned the dog.
Many modern trainers have completely rejected this concept. They have discovered that in general dogs do not completely understand the concept of being punished for doing something wrong. They either become confused or believe that the person doing the punishing is just is a cruel person.
A person using the old philosophy would hit or kick a dog each time it barked in the house and it would take a long time and a lot of hits or kicks before the message got through. An intelligent owner is more likely to simply turn his back when the dog barks. The message gets through in a very short time. He will praise the dog when it relieves itself at the correct place instead of punishing it for relieving itself in the wrong place. This often will decrease the required training time by anywhere from 50 to 75%. The concept is that the dog should be doing whatever it is that you ask him to simply because he wants to please you. This can establish you as the leader of the pack. Pack psychology is still present in modern dogs, although they are probably a few thousand generations removed from their ancestors, the wolves of central Asia. I cannot explain why a dog will accept a human as the leader of its pack but this seems to be the case.
Dogs can be trained to obey a wide variety of verbal commands and/or hand signals. Some have reportedly learned as many as 200 different tricks. These are usually taught to the dog while it is playing with its owner. If this is done properly the dog looks at the lessons as simply a part of a game. The owner either says the key word or makes the key gesture and the dog follows along by playing its part in the game. In effect the dog is working with the owner instead of against the owner. The more the dog learns the better it likes the game. In one extreme case, I have seen a video of a dog dancing a merengue with its owner. The dog appears to really adore its owner. The commentary that I saw with it said that obviously the dog was very well treated to adore its owner so much. I have to agree.
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