Dog Behavior Training

"dog behavior training is one of the most important parts of your dogs early life. If you can prevent some of the common bad habits that most dogs develop, your dog will turn out to be a very obedient friend."

So, How Can You Get Started With Your Own Dog Behavior And Obedience Training?

In order to to provide effective dog behavior training for your pet, you need to educate yourself first! Would you be happy if your child's teacher in school had absolutely no idea about the subject that she was teaching? If you have no idea how to train your dog to be obedient, how could you expect any positive results?

After you have read a few books and bought a few dog training aids (I will recommend some great dog training aids in a later post), you can really feel confident in your abilities to train your dog.

One of the first things that you need to teach your dog is how to respond to your voice. It would be impossible to do any dog behavior training if your dog is not responding to your commands! One of the best ways to achieve this really quickly is by saying its name, and holding a treat out with your hand. When you say your dogs name, try to get it to focus on the treat. Once you get it's attention to your hand every time that you try, you can be sure that it will respond to your commands!

Once your dog answers to your voice on a regular basis, you can take your dog behavior training to the next level. You can teach your dog to sit! Don't worry, its not as hard as you may think! Take your dog to a quite area (since they have such small attention spans), and bring some treats! Training your dog to sit is as simple as saying the word "sit", in a normal voice, and gently pushing it's rear to the ground. Trust me, sooner or later, it will get the idea and happily sit down! As soon as it sits for the very first time, congratulate it! I don't mean just giving it a treat, I mean talk to it like you would your kid if you were proud of him/her!

Congratulating your dog for following your commands while conducting dog behavior training is very important. Find out which treat is your dogs favorite, and put that treat aside. Throughout the day, if you feel like giving your dog a treat for no reason at all (not suggested), do not use it's favorite! Dogs are more intelligent than most might think, and they will understand that in order to get the good stuff, they have to do the good stuff.

Well, that's it for today. I hope I have taught you some basic dog behavior training information. Check back regularly for more tips, techniques, and recommendations.