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The Key to Training Your Dog
from:I say this to everyone who asks the best way to train your dog: Training your dog is easy when you use positive training methods. You can't just punish, punish, punish or else your dog will always expect punishment, and what reason would he have for being good?
Training your dog with positive reinforcement:
When your dog is being calm and relaxed, maybe sprawled at your feet while you read the NY Times, give him a treat. When your dog is playing with another dog nicely and not jumping up onto
someone? Give him a treat. Walking by your side instead of dragging you? Treat.
Don't just reward him after Sit and Lay down. Not only will he expect treats and praise only then, thereby giving him more opportunity to do a little digging in the trashcan, but he will never get treats for just being a good dog in day-to-day life.
Your dog will come to realize that maybe digging in the flowerbed isn't worthwhile, especially as he gets a treat for sitting calmly by your side. This is what you want.
This training technique is very simple, easy, and is probably the quickest way to seeing results for a serene, easier to be around pet.
The fundamental of positive reinforcement:
- When your dog performs an action and is rewarded, whether with pats on the head or pieces of cheese, he will perform that action again.
Train yourself this way, and expect your dog to follow.
You can even use this technique for when your dog is acting badly. Take for example my dog, Diesel. He had the infamous habit of jumping on anyone who came through the front door. As Diesel was a 90-lbs. Labrador Retriever with paws the size of trashcan lids, this wasn't exactly a welcome or good thing.
How to train your dog with positive reinforcement when acting
inappropriately:
Give a command that causes your dog to stop what he is doing (the bad dog thing), such as the Sit or Lay Down command. You can also ignore your dog by simply turning your back on him, but as you can't always ignore a 90-lbs. dog attached to your stomach, this wasn't always an option for me.
Since Diesel couldn't Sit and jump on me at the same time, he was forced to the ground. I used the always handy Who's a good dog? You are! approach to reward him whenever I didn't have a treat handy.
If your dog is in the act of doing something you don't want him to do, train yourself to give him an order that prevents him from continuing instead of shouting No! or Stop! While loud noises may also be useful, this is the most helpful process.
When your dog ceases with the unwanted behavior, give praise.
In a position where your dog is over-excited and not obeying any orders at all? Take him out of that situation, pronto, and put him either in another room or his crate. Removing your dog from
the position instead of giving him an order allows your dog to settle down in his crate and keeps him and others safe and, ultimately, happier.
In total, positive reinforcement in dog training is a very simple, easy way to get your dog to be a calm, happier dog. There are no difficult instructions; just love and praise your dog when he is being a good dog too, instead of always reacting to his bad side.
If you take this relaxed approach to training your dog, expect
the quickest of results.
About the author:
Jess Handler gives sound advice on the topic of dog training.
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