The first time you bring home your dog, it can be a very overwhelming experience. All dogs need care and attention, so you will make both your own and your dogs life much easier, if you learn it to behave right from the beginning. And that is done best with the right training.
Professional dog trainers make it look so simple to train dogs. But if you think it is, you are wrong. The first time you try yourself, you will probably experience that even the simplest methods are not working. But all dogs try to please their owners, so spend a lot of time with your dog. Then it will love you; and thereby try to obey you.
The best time to start training your dog is between the age of 3 and 16 weeks. Here the bond between it and you will take hold. So if you earn its respect as the master, the training will be easier in the future.
The pillar of good dog training is commands. But even though it looks simple, when the professional dog trainer is doing it, you might find it difficult. And the dog will probably not obey you.
It is the tone of the voice that decides if a command is a success or not. Good dog trainers do not posses special abilities to speak with animals. They do just know how dog behaves; and how the right tone of voice can make it obey. And by practicing you can learn the same.
The right command tone is firm but non-threatening. To make the dog obey you, you much establish a relationship between you and the dog, where you are the master. If you miss that, you will not be able to train your dog. And threatening or yelling will not help you. It will just make your dog fear you.
Praising you dog is the best way to train it. Tell it when it has done something right. It is possible for a dog to distinguish between right and wrong. But you have to learn it the right behavior with good feedback.
So to shown if it behaves right or wrong, you should use your voice. This way you learn it to distinguish between good and bad behavior. And remember that all dogs are trying to please their owners, so it will do everything it can to follow your instructions.
When you master the tone of the voice, you can start to search for more complicated training methods to take the training even further.
And a final advice; all dogs have different temperament and intelligence. So what might work on one dog, is not always working on other dogs. So find the methods that work with your dog.
Martin Elmer is the editor of Hundefan – a website about udstyr til hunde. Here you can also read about hunde foder.
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