Dog Obedience Training - A New Approach
Dog Obedience Training - A New Approach
So you’ve got a dog? Great! Science has shown that dog owners live longer, happier lives. But what now?
Obedience training is one of the most important things you can do - for your dog and for yourself. The goal is to lay the obedience groundwork between you and your dog, and be able to use that foundation to overcome any behavior problems.
It’s all about communication. Effective communication with your dog is extremely important. You can teach a dog anything with proper communication. On the other hand, without proper communication, it will be nearly impossible.
Dogs are fun-loving animals, and without any training they will act like… animals! They will keep you awake all night barking, urinate and defecate on your furniture, chew up your belongings and just generally destroy your home. They might even bite you, or harm themselves by attacking another dog or running around in the street. You don’t want your dog bolting for the door anytime freedom is offered him, and you don’t want to spend hours trying to find a dog who doesn’t understand where his home is. All of these things can be cleared up quickly and easily with the right obedience training.
Most “behavior problems,” or things we humans don’t want happening, are completely normal behavior for dogs. The problem lies in that they occur at the wrong time or place. For example, your dog will urinate all over your brand new carpet instead of urinating outside like you want him to; or your dog will bark endlessly, all night long, for seemingly no reason, instead of barking only when there’s a creepy burglar creeping around outside your home, waiting to attack. Dogs are naturally good-natured animals: they want to help protect you and your family and live a happy life. They just need some coaching to direct their instinctive behaviors to work in more modern living spaces, such as your home or apartment.
Dog obedience training also establishes the owner (you) as the pack leader. As pack leader, you lay down clear behaviour guidelines for the pack to follow. This is the social hierarchy of the canine family, and if there is no pack leader established, the dog will assume he is the pack leader. This is why dog obedience training is very important. All dogs have an extremely wide capacity to learn basic and even extremely complicated obedience. They just need someone to teach it to them.
But don’t get ahead of yourself just yet. The first step in obedience training is to have fun with the dog, show him love and compassion. Give your dog a reason to respect you, and a reason to listen to the guidance you have to offer. You should only use commands such as “stay” when you literally want your dog to stay - such as while on a walk or if he has run away from you too far. Do not use “stay” if the dog has no choice BUT to stay - such as leaving your dog in your car for a minute while you run in and cash your paycheck.
Just begin by respecting your dog’s behavior, whatever it may be, and gently lay groundwork as to what is and what is not acceptable. Praise your dog for good behaviour instead of chastising him for bad behavior. This, in turn, lets your dog know the proper way to behave, and the good behavior replaces the inappropriate behavior.
Never abuse your dog in hopes of proper obedience training. Every dog has a different personality, just like people are each different. Learn your dog’s personality, and you will be able to learn how to train them. But also be willing to learn from your dog, and have your dog teach you lessons.
Above all, always remember the reason you got a dog to begin with: companionship, happiness and fun.
John Rapp has spent many years perfecting an amazing new system of <a href="http://www.johnrapp.org/dogtrainingoffer.html"title="dog obedience training">dog obedience training</a>
Training Your Best Friend
Training a dog isn’t quite as intuitive as many imagine. Dogs understand some things in great detail and others not at all. Training a dog in the way that suits you and your lifestyle requires specific effort and strategy. It can also be a lot of fun.
Whether you want assistance for game hunting, or you just want a responsible companion, you may be looking to a dog for help. Teaching a dog things ranging from how to deal with game animals to how to take calm walks with you will help you achieve your goals. Whether you want to buy a puppy, or you want to properly train your barely-trained housedog, K9course can help you reach these goals.
You may be wondering how to properly train your pet. You may be wondering if your pet is too old to be trained. Training a dog is part patience and part implementation. Not all dogs act the same way but there are certain ways to communicate to them. Knowledge of such things will help you better communicate with your dog so that you can train them in the way you like, and of course so that you can have fun together.
K9course has the information you need to effectively train a dog. Old and young dogs alike can be trained to be responsive, well-behaved animals with the expert-approved methods and advice available. Everything from the temperaments of different species to what a dog does and doesn’t pay attention to is offered in the K9course.
Everyone wants to have fun with their dog, and no one wants to be angry at a dog due to bad habits and ineffective communication. Tried-and-true expert information is the most effective when it comes to forming a method to training your dog to suit your lifestyle. K9course has the proper information you need when it comes to accomplishing this task.
Jerry West is President of Web Marketing Now, a search engine research company. As author of the SEO Revolution, Mr. West continues to bring cutting edge methodologies to the market that have been tested and proven on real sites.
Dog Training - The #1 Thing You Must Do With Your Puppy
Is there one thing that you can do that will help your puppy to be a friendly, more stable, easier to train dog? Is there just one thing that you can do that will reduce the chances of your puppy becoming aggressive to other dogs, or people, including kids? Is there just one thing that you can do with your puppy that will make him much happier and less fearful? Yes. What is that one thing? Socialization. Socialization is the absolute best thing you can do with your young puppy. Puppies have a socialization period where they are like little sponges. They are taking in a lot of information into their young brains and becoming familiar with their world. The socialization period that all puppies go through is a window of opportunity for you to expose your puppy to a lot of different sights, sounds, smells, and people. Expose your puppy to as many different things as you possibly can. Puppies that are not properly socialized sometimes become fearful and aggressive. The best time to socialize your pup is from eight weeks to four months old. During that time I always advise puppy owners to bring their pups into the woods hiking, into the city for a walk around some busy streets. Take a trip to the beach or a lake. Bring your pup for a friendly visit to the vet s office and the groomers. It is also a great time to start obedience training. The younger the puppy starts training the easier it is to train the dog. Waiting until the puppy is six months old is a terrible myth. If your pup is brought home at eight weeks old and you wait until the sixth month you have lost four valuable months of training time. There is also a good chance that in those four months your dog will have developed some behavior problems like jumping that could have been avoided if training had started earlier. Start socializing your puppy today. You and your puppy will be much happier.
Eric Letendre, author of The Amazing Dog Training Man, invites you to visit http://www.amazingdogtrainingman.com for free dog training video clips, tips, articles, and advice. Free Newsletter.
Human and Animal Kingdoms
Animals typically don’t re-incarnate in the same sense that we do. Because we have an egoic level that animals don’t have, we can have repeated earth lives. Animals have, rather, an astral aspect, which dissipates into the general pool of astrality. This particular difference could well be shifting now, as the forces of spiritual evolution continue to play on all four kingdoms of life on Earth. One constant, however, is that animals and humans do not “inter-carnate.” Each kingdom keeps to itself. Another important difference between animals and humans is entailed in how animals tend to be specialists, while humans are the generalists. Every animal has either an ability or knowledge, or understanding, in a specialized area, that transcends a human capacity. A horse can out-run us. Birds can fly. Fish can breath under water, and so on. Humans, however, are the generalists. Humanity is able to address many of its lesser abilities by creative invention. We can make things that run faster than horses, or construct a craft that can fly. Although most animals may not yet reincarnate in the same sense as humans, they are still able to devise plans for their incarnations on a soul level, make choices, seek to learn and unfold specific lessons, and set out to accomplish spiritual goals. However, they do so via their group soul aspect, the over-lighting ego of the species, or one of several groupings within a species, more so than on an individual basis. The Spirit of the Bison, for example, is orchestrating plans on this level. (see the Earth Vision article The Return of Bison and Wolf for more on this. The naturo-human interchange is designed for teaching and learning - as a two way street. Ourselves and beings in nature are at once students and teachers of each other. As presented in The Spiritual Ecology of Evolution, we owe a dept to the animals, who have gone before us to help us find our way. This is what comprises the deeper basis in the impulse for stewardship, our responsibility to the animals. Some of the questions that proceed from this article are - do animals inter-carnate among themselves, that is, one species to another? And, in that animals are spiritually evolving, and therefore becoming more egoic, to what extent are some animals at this time actually reincarnating in the classical sense? And, in what ways is the nature-human relationship evolving? The Insight21/Earth Vision projects will be delving into these questions further, and will also be inviting input from readers who may have some experience and/or references toward this end. Further Resources The Return of Bison and Wolf - from the Earth Vision project — www.evsite.net The Spiritual Ecology of Evolution - from Insight21 - www.insight21.net
J Graf is the coordinator of Earth Vision and Insight21 - doorways for the 21st Century - at http://www.evsite.net and http://www.insight21.net
Dog Training - Bad Dogma, How Harsh Training Methods Can Cause Aggression
The dictionary defines the word dogma as: The established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization, thought to be authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from. There is an old saying among dog trainers that goes: The only thing two dog trainers can agree on is what the third one is doing wrong. There are basically two schools of dog trainers. On one side you have the old school dog trainers that believe training is done by using a choke chain or prong collar to train, that you should never use food to train the dog. On the other hand you have the food reward trainers that believe you should never use any kind of force or harsh methods to train. Both sides will strongly argue for their way of training. I have been on both sides of the issue. I got my start training dogs with an old time trainer that had been training dogs since the 1950 s. If you used a treat in front of this guy, you had to be prepared for a verbal eruption that would make a sailor blush. I have also been with trainers that think anything short of filet mignon not being used for treats is cruel. All kidding aside it can get confusing for someone trying to train their dog. Who do you listen to? Should you just use treats to train? Do you ever give your dog a correction? The truth of the matter is that positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement can be extremely effective. There is no denying that there are thousands of dogs that are safely confined to their yards with the help of underground electronic fences. There is also no denying that dogs learn much better when you use a reward based system of training. The important point is this: You want to make sure that you spend more time rewarding your dog s behavior than punishing or getting physical with your dog. The fact is that all good relationships are based on positive interaction. I once watched a group obedience class where all the dogs were on choke chains. Food was not allowed. In the course of one hour, I watched one guy give his dog over 150 corrections with the leash. They weren t all hard corrections but he did yank on the leash that many times. Over time, that dog will become tolerant to the choke chain and the owner will have to yank harder and harder and will probably damage his dog s neck and trachea which will lead to one very grouchy dog. There s no denying the fact that a dog being trained that way can easily develop an aggression problem, and here s the rub. The dog is always blamed, never the training method Doesn t it make sense to use a reward based training system? Unfortunaly this way of training has become the established belief or doctrine held by many dog trainers, and not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from. Too bad for the dogs.
Eric Letendre, author of The Amazing Dog Training Man, invites you to visit http://www.amazingdogtrainingman.com for free dog training video clips, tips, articles, and advice. Free Newsletter.
Filed under Pets | Comment (0)