Effective Ways to Train Your Dog
There are many different ways to train your dog, but you must try to understand how your dog thinks and why. To train your dog successfully you must have the support of the whole family as it only takes one to upset all the good work that you have put in.
Below are some of the different ideas when starting out to train your dog.
You should decide what role your dog is going to take in your life and what parts of the house it is allowed in. Your dog needs to know where it will be sleeping and in what. If your dog will be sleeping in the kitchen in say a cage or a basket, get it used to knowing that when he or she is put in the basket or cage it is bed time. A dog will feel more secure if they know that this is their place to sleep.
A dog likes routine and they will become used to what is coming whether it is food, walks or bed time. You need to establish this routine around your family and your dog needs to know where it stands in your family. A routine will take time to establish and you have to be persistent and patient.
Your dog needs to be taught where to go to the toilet, where to sleep and so on. Once you have taught your dog this it needs to remain the same so think about this before you get your dog home. Dogs need consistency in their lives to make a good pet.
Make sure your whole family knows where and when your dog should or should not be allowed to go and what he or she is allowed to do. You all need to be patient and consistent for this to work well and for your dog to understand you.
You must understand the dogs background, like the breed, age of the dog, where the dog came from and whether or not it came from a well trained family or not.
Depending on what sort of breed the dog is, it is sometimes easier or harder to train.
It is always easier to train a young dog rather than an old dog as older dogs will already have some bad habits and it takes longer to retrain. Although with a little persistence you can still retrain them it just takes a lot longer.
jeff ryall
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October 22nd, 2009 at 2:02 pm
What are some effective ways to house train a puppy?
I just got this poodle dog about 6 weeks ago. When I got him, he was still too young to be away from his mother and he was way to young to even consider house training, so I didn’t punish him for a while whenever he went on the floor. But now I think he’s getting to the point that he can finally learn, but he seems to be really comfortable just continuing to go on the floor. He’s already got his "favorite" spots to go and I’m trying every trick in the book to try and get him to quit. Is it my fault that he isn’t learning by allowing him to become accustomed to peeing on the floors? Or are there just more effective ways to train that I don’t know about?
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Newspapers – get him to go on that and keep moving it until you move it out of the house. Or get a cage (if you live in an apartment)
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October 22nd, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Its too bad you didn’t start a little sooner. Puppies get into habits very quickly and are hard to break.
Basically you have to never let him make a mistake. If he has a favourite spot, block it off so he can’t get to it. Anytime he wakes up from a nap, take him outside and when he does go, make a big fuss about what a good puppy he is. Don’t let him have the run of the house. If you can’t watch him, then put him in his crate or pen.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 7:08 pm
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October 22nd, 2009 at 7:10 pm
when your dog pee’s show the puppy the piss and with a sterdy voice say NO, BAD DOG and when he pees or poops outside give him a nice friendly good dog whose my good dog, and maybe give him a treat.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Sorry, Stephanie – you did help cause this one. In not correcting your puppy when he went in the house, you taught him it’s OK to do so….and so now, when you try to correct him he’s confused. (Huh? Why did the rules change?)
The key here is to be consistent. Crate training is a great suggestion, since it will keep him confined to one area and unable to freely wander around, peeing at will. Once you take him out of the crate, take him outside right away and let him pee (or whatever.) When he does, praise him like crazy. Use a relatively high voice, and go nuts. ("WHAT a good dog! You’re SUCH a good dog!") The neighbors might think you’re crazy, but the dog will react to your voice and the tone.
If he goes inside, hopefully you can catch him doing so. If you do, say "BAD DOG" in as low a voice as you can. Immediately take him out – if you’re lucky, he’ll finish what he started and you can then praise him. ("WHAT a good dog!!")
Just be as consistent as possible. And be patient – it may take a little while to untrain what you inadvertently taught him….but he’ll catch on.
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