More Basic Dog Obedience to Teach your Puppy Dog
Anyone can teach their puppy or dog good manners. Just use consistency and reward good behaviour. Do not punish bad behaviour – ignore it unless it is dangerous. A dog’s poor behaviour is like a child throwing a tantrum. If you ignore the tantrum long enough they will just give up. So will your dog, especially if you reward it with a treat or a favorite toy when it does what you ask.
Benefits of Basic Dog Obedience Training
There is nothing better than an obedient dog. But it does not happen overnight. It takes patience, persistence, consistency and love. All a puppy or dog wants from you is your time and company. If you do not have this to give to your pet dog then why have you got one in the first place?
Leaving your best mate locked up in the back yard day after day only asks for trouble. If you do not have time for your pet dog then think about making time or rehoming it.
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Basic dog obedience is as simple as sit, drop and stay. These are the three basic commands to train dogs from the very start.
Training Dogs to Stay
Now your dog is solid on the sit and drop commands start introducing the stay. I use feed time to start this puppy training.
Your dog wants its dinner and learns very quickly to sit and stay if it wants its food. Teaching it to stay and wait for its food is teaching your dog basic good manners.
With your dog’s dinner in one hand tell your dog to sit. Once your dog sits, tell it to stay and give the stay hand signal. This hand signal is an open hand with the palm facing the dog, like a stop sign. Give the signal and say ‘stay’ and put the food down. If the dog moves pick the food up and start again. You may have to repeat this a number of times when you first start. Be patient.
Don’t expect a puppy to stay still for more than a couple of seconds to start with so release it almost straight away. Once your dog or puppy gets the idea, start increasing the time it waits for you to release them to eat. If you have more than one dog, use numbers as release words. This way each dog learns to associate the different sounds to them individually. If you only have one dog you can still use free or okay.
Now your dog stays well for a few minutes at a time, start putting distance between you. Move further and further away until you are out of sight. Do a few things and when you come back, your dog will still be sitting, waiting to be released to eat. Most puppies and dogs pick this up in just a couple of days.
When your pet dog sits and stays well, teach it to stay in the drop position. The sit, drop and stay will serve you and you best friend well for many years to come.
These are the three most fundamental dog training basics you teach your dog. Do yourself a favour and check out your local dog obedience training club. Most are really affordable and run by volunteers. It helps to get the advice of volunteer experts willing to share their time with you and your dog
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