Archive for the ‘Training’ Category

Dealing With Your Fence Jumping Dog

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Some dogs are very good fence jumpers, even if they are quite short. Take the Jack Russell terrier as an example. While this breed is adorable and very bright, they are incredible jumpers. Now, you don’t typically see a dog sail right over the top of a fence (though it does happen) but you do see them use everything they’ve got to scamper, climb, and crawl up and over.

Fence jumping is frustrating from the perspective of trying to keep the dog in the yard but this behavior also poses a risk to the dog. For example, if your particular fence had any type of spike or pointed area on top, your pet

Training Your Dog Around Your Garden

Monday, January 28th, 2008

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Dog obedience training

Friday, January 25th, 2008

The way to build a solid and trusting relationship between dog and owner is to create a common language. This is achieved by dog obedience training that opens the way to learning and understanding your pet and its needs. With dog obedience training you make sure that the animal always responds in a positive ways to your commands without becoming distressed and developing unsocial behavior. Exercises will help your pet develop the best responses to stimuli and therefore, dog obedience training works for the benefit of both animal and adoptive family.

There are several types of dog obedience training; let

Potty Training A Puppy

Friday, January 25th, 2008

One of the first things you will need to do after giving your new puppy lots of love and affection is to train it to go to the toilet in the right place. This can often be problematic, just like it can be difficult to educate a child. It is important however that the puppy learns this as quickly as possible to avoid getting told off all the time. This article will give you some ideas on how to potty train your puppy effectively so that it knows where to go to the toilet and that inside the house is not the right place. Most dogs identify the house as their home pretty quickly and will naturally go outside when nature calls.

The first thing to understand is that dogs are fairly predictable after eating some food. They will want to poop about 15 - 20 after finishing. This means that a few minutes after the puppy has finished eating you should take it outside. Let it wander around and eventually it will want to poop. After you have done this a few times the penny will drop and the dog will start to whine if it is inside and wants to go to the toilet. You may find that watching your puppy all the time will be difficult but you should spend as much time with a new puppy at the beginning to help it to settle. If you have a family then maybe you could take turns at looking after the puppy.

Puppies will also want to go to the toilet when they wake up, when it leaves it’s crate or box and after snacks or drinking water. As you can imagine, it could be a full time job monitoring your puppy for all these occasions. That is why you should take turns with other family members if possible.

If you want your puppy to poop in a certain place then always take it to that place around the time it is likely to want to poop. Another method that works is to get it to poop on a piece of newspaper. This can be used in the house to avoid messing up the carpet or floor and at night times when the dog is alone. Place the paper in a corner of the room where the puppy is staying. Encourage it to go to the toilet on the paper when you see it arching it’s back or making motions to go to the toilet. Once it has identified the paper as the place to do these things you can use a piece of paper to educate the puppy about a special place in the back garden or wherever. This will make your life easier when the puppy becomes older and doesn’t litter your yard with excrement.

Potty training a puppy is one of the first things you will need to do to socialize your dog. There will be many other things it will have to learn so that it can be a coveted and useful member of the family. Learning potty training will set it off on the right path for future learning and good behavior.

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What Are The Benefits Of Training Your Golden Retriever Correctly?

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Training your Golden Retriever is not just about schooling him in the skills of coming to heel, sit or rollover. Although training your dog is a necessary requirement, it should be fun, fulfilling and rewarding, both for you and your dog and an activity that benefits and includes every family member. Essentially house training your Golden Retriever is important for your sanity and sanitation.

It can take a lot of time and patience to properly train a Golden Retriever, especially in the early days when several training sessions a day are essential. Dogs learn at different speeds according to their level of ability, but on a positive note Golden Retrievers are one of the more receptive breeds. Like all breeds, however they respond more quickly and more reliably to positive incentives rather than to fear or punishment. Training your Golden Retriever is more than just an exercise in learning and understanding for a dog.

Obedience training for your Golden Retriever is the best way to keep both you and your dog happy and should not be optional. Done correctly, it will build your relationship and bring about a change in character within any dog, which eliminates nearly all behavioural problems. Although it can get frustrating in the early days you should always carry out the training with a positive attitude and reward your dog when he gets something right rather than punishing him for forgetting.

A Golden Retriever, especially a puppy, will develop his own schedule and behaviour if left unsupervised. Use verbal reprimands instead of punishment and reward good behaviour with lavish praise. Severe punishment tactics can actually cause behavioural problems in itself and in many cases bring about the opposite behaviour than what you are trying to achieve, even compounding existing ones. Using positive methods to define behaviour is fun for you and your Golden Retriever and if he is clear about where he stands and his function within the group will have no behaviour problems.

If you feel that training you Golden Retriever is beyond you a dog trainer maybe the answer. Searching for a reputable dog trainer can seem difficult, but the first place to explore would be your kennel or veterinarian

Dog Training

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Separation anxiety, also known in the dog training world as owner absent misbehavior, is one of the most frequently encountered problems in the world of dog training. Separation anxiety can manifest itself in many different ways, including chewing, destroying the owner

Dog Training With A Training Collar Or Choke Collar

Friday, January 18th, 2008

There are a variety of names that go under the broad heading of

Dog Training

Friday, January 18th, 2008

One of the most confusing and anxiety-ridden areas of dog training is house training. Yet, it is one of the most important, especially for the humans involved.

The best way to understand and find success with house training is to use the dog

Appreciation of Dog Behaviour for Effective Dog Training

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Dog behavior is not to be perplexed with human behavior because their is completely differ from human behavior. Dog behavior is formed by a mixture of aspects, it is not the simple abc or 123 that people thought and believed. The frequent oversight is that people always thought dog behavior as either good or bad where actually it is always both. Behavior nuisance are as widespread with dogs as they are with human being.

Just like people, where behavior can be instilled and changed, dog behavior can be changed by modification exercises. Behavior modification involve evaluation, and adjustment of dog behavior through reward and punishment disciplines conducted again and again which sometimes can last for weeks or months. The myth that you cannot train an old dog new tricks is undeniably wrong. Even though there is no assurance that training will solve all dog behavioral problems, they do produce a solid foundation for deciphering just about all dog problem.

Understanding that dog behavior changes quickly from time to time, continuous training and consistency is therefore necessary in shaping dogs behavior. Since dogs are different from human who inherit their many behavioral traits from their ancestors, people have the psychological abilities to self-alter their behavioral instinct with a better behavior by way of thinking which are not available with dogs. However since dog behavior are largely developed from where they dwell and who has owned them before, it is absolutely achievable that the change of owner behavior and environment where the dog is living could modify their behavior traits.

There you have it, once you understood the reason following each of the dog behavior problems, then you can solve it by modification exercises, doesn

Crate Training Your Dogs - Ultimate Dog Training Method

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

They say that the Crate Training method is the most effective way to train dogs. How do we crate train our dogs? Is it harsh to confine a dog or an adorable puppy in solitary confinement so to speak? Crate Training was once seen as cruel and inhumane but it has gain popularity in recent years. Crate Training can be a useful tool to train a puppy or even a stubborn old dog.

The crate can be a place of sanctuary and security when needed by our dogs. There are people who find success in doing crate training but there are also dog owners that find it so hard to do crate training with their dogs. A simple reason why this happens could be a dog