Enjoy Your Dog Training
Do you find yourself absolutely dreading your next dog training session?
If you do, your dog probably does, too.
Here are a few tips that can help make your dog training more enjoyable …
1) Prepare ahead of time. Know exactly what you’re going to work on with your dog.
2) Keep your sessions short … five or ten minutes.
3) Work on only one command during a session. Don’t overload your dog with a catalogue of tricks and commands, intending that after one week he’ll be the perfect dog. Work on a single command at a time. Make sure he has it down before you move on to the next.
4) Try to integrate your commands. If he’s learned to sit, then next session work on stay. When he learns to stay, next work on come.
5) Use plenty of praise and treats. Keep your time together, even when you’re training, positive and relaxing.
6) End each dog training session with a play session.
dog training should be an important part of building your relationship with your dog. Harsh, impatient words, frustration, physical punishment … these will destroy your bond and undermine the training. On the other hand, if you keep your time together with your dog fun and adventurous, training becomes an anticipated event that both of you can enjoy.
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