Dog Training Simplified

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Training your dog is an important step at the start of your dogs life to ensure proper behavior, or later in life to correct bad habits. Before training starts it is best to research the dog's breed(s) to get an idea of its personality ingrained traits or any specific quarks the breed(s) may have when it comes to training.

Training your dog humanely is the key to establishing a healthy relationship with your dog. Good behaviors need to be rewarded, while bad ones should be ignored or corrected.

Strong physical reprimands and devices such as choke chains can cause much more harm than good in the long run. Repeated use of physical force can cause a dog to become extremely skittish around all people and afraid of its master. Using a stern voice, withholding a reward, and physically relocating a dog painlessly can all cause the desired training effect without physically hurting the dog.

Common commands such as sit, heel, stay, and come are generally easiest to teach through reward-based training early in life. This early learning can be important, since otherwise a dog might develop bad habits that will be significantly harder to unlearn later on. Much like their human counterparts dogs develop personalities over time that are the result of their experiences and what they are allowed to get away with. When possible, teach your dog basic commands early to avoid this sort of problem in the future.

Remember, your dog does want to please you. With a little patience and a lot of consistency, it's not that hard to teach dogs what behaviors you like and what definitely isn't allowed. Retain a position of confident leadership and you shouldn't have any problem having a happy, well-adjusted dog as a result. Maintaining cruel but humane leadership will help ensure that your dog will be able to learn from it's mistakes.

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