The best gift you can make for yourself, your dog and also for your family and your friends and neighbors is to begin to train your dog. Doing in this way means sanity for you, safety for your dog, compliments and some other good and nice words from people you meet just on the street. Make your dog an ambassador of goodwill for all the other dogs. Your dog has a life expectancy of 8 to 18 years, depending on his breed and how well you take care of him. Now it is the perfect time to ensure that these years are mutually rewarding for you and your dog.
There are some rare cases, that dogs do not need training at all because they perfectly suit their owners. The dog’s behavior is good and the owner doesn’t see the need to change something. Some dogs don’t need much training. They seem to just naturally fall into step with their owners’ daily stuff, but still the person sees some little things to be changed. But most, however, need at least some basic training, especially with coming when called. Rather than being condemned to a life on leash, he can be taken for romps in the woods and accompany his owner to great number of public places.
Dog training is the process of teaching your dog to perform behaviors in response to certain commands. There is the list of the most common behaviors: “sit”, “lie down”, “stay”, recall (“come”, “here” or “in”), “close”, “heel”, “up”, etc. The most effective way to train a dog involves using treats and positive reinforcement. In addition, many trainers use a clicker. The number of methods of training is great; there is huge amount of literature, magazines, etc. But the main methods and principles which are described in such literature are not enough. All of them have pretty much in common, and they are closely related. The main “ingredient” in this “kitchen” is your contribution. It is obvious that the dog and his owner have pretty much in common, but this comes only with some time and training, of course. The main ingredients are your soul and time.
Start to do dogs training the day after you bring him home, and puppies are included in this rule. Just because puppies are cute and cuddly doesn’t mean they can’t learn. They not only can learn, but they also learn much more quickly than older dogs. The main thing is not to lose the moment, to start training just in time. The best moment for starting is this first day, because they haven’t acquired any bad habits.
Before you get started with training your dog, you first need to understand what training really is. The term “training” is used to describe different concepts. You can get acquainted with them with help of the great amount of literature, but keep in mind the main ingredient we were talking about.
