| The term obedience training used to be synonymous | | | | Dog obedience training does not need to be hard. |
| with basic dog training, and implied that training a dog | | | | You can start with the basics at home. If your dog |
| and military boot camp had a lot in common! Military | | | | doesn't yet know the basic commands like sit, down |
| dog training did influence early training techniques for | | | | and heel, then it is best to start in an area with |
| family dogs. When obedience trials became a popular | | | | minimal distractions. You want your dog to focus on |
| sport with dogs, classes continued to use the term | | | | you during training, and that can be difficult for him |
| obedience. | | | | when on a walk with all the sights, sounds, and most |
| Dog training has advanced due to the generations of | | | | of all smells that assail his senses. A comfortable collar |
| trainers refining their techniques more and more. | | | | and a leash that is a suitable length and easy to |
| People still train their dogs for obedience trials, but | | | | handle are the only tools you need to start. A supply |
| they also train for other purposes such as hunting, | | | | of small but very tasty treats is the other ingredient. |
| search and rescue, police work, assistance to people | | | | You can start with your dog on the leash in your |
| with disabilities, therapy work and much more. | | | | living room or garden. |
| Train a belly flop down with the clicker by luring two | | | | Crate Training is a valuable tool that can be used to |
| or three times and then capturing and shaping the | | | | housebreak your dog or puppy, but it should never |
| behavior. If the dog has already been taught a down | | | | be over used. Sticking a dog or a puppy in a crate |
| and the command "down" with correction-based | | | | for most of the day is not Crate Training, it is |
| training, you will need to establish a different behavior | | | | torture. If you think you'll have to leave your dog in a |
| (flinging itself down rather than lowering itself for | | | | crate for the whole day, you should probably look |
| example) and a different cue for this behavior: "stop," | | | | into alternatives. |
| or a hand signal. If you don't, the old behavior with its | | | | So, you've got a new addition to your family, one |
| problems will keep creeping back in (such as | | | | who wags his or her tail and looks to you eagerly for |
| inattention, distractibility, slow downs, creeping, | | | | food and love. Your pup is housebroken and |
| getting up again, and other avoidance-related | | | | comfortable in it's home. Now what? Many people |
| behavior caused by correction-based training). | | | | get a dog for the purpose of companionship or |
| Coaching your dog the "emergency down" will allow | | | | protection. They assume that a dog will simply adapt |
| you to take the danger of some day taking him off | | | | to their owner's instructions and will do as they're told |
| bridle in the lane. This is skilled after your dog has | | | | in time. This may be so in some cases. However, the |
| mastered the "Down" rule. This work out is skilled in | | | | following is a surefire way to teach your dog to do |
| an urgent quality of right to be heard and because of | | | | some simple tricks. Once taught, you will see that it |
| this it is expert no more than twice a week, or else, | | | | pleases your dog to perform these tricks, because |
| it loses its knock. In accumulation, this dominion relies | | | | our pets, more than anything, love to see us proud |
| on the use of body speech. If you use these | | | | of them. |
| rudiments correctly, you will rapidly and proficiently | | | | The first thing to take into consideration when |
| speak to your dog a sense of crisis and a need on | | | | training your dog is learning environment. The |
| his part to follow your education without uncertainty | | | | environment should be familiar, preferably in your |
| - the idea of the emergency down. | | | | home. |