Hi guys, Mike here.
If you’re looking for some tips on training the family dog, than look no further. Here’s a list of useful dog training tips which most people forget all about them. I found them useful for my family dog training so I thought I’ll list them here:
- You should give your dog food for limited time (15 minutes per meal), and don’t leave it accessible all the time. If your dog doesn’t eat during the 15 minutes, take the bowl away and return it only on the next scheduled meal. This will reduce his dominance.
- Make sure your dog poops and pees before every training lesson. If you won’t let your dog pee/poop before training, he will keep thinking about it during lesson time, and that will decrease the efficiency of our training.
- Use the dog name only on commands which require the dog to move towards you. When your dog hears his name, he automatically thinks he need to come to you. So, say your dog’s name on the come, heel commands and don’t say it on the sit, stay, down commands.
- DO NOT get tempted to use commands off lesson time. If you used the command and your dog disobeyed it, and you didn’t correct him, then all you did was to tell your dog disobeying a command is OK. Many people try to showoff their dog tricks, and many times it ends up with the dog not following the command and the owner not correcting the dog.
BUT, are these tips really going to guarantee you a fully trained dog? Of course not! Just like my dog used to be, your dog is probably the one calling the shots around the house. You put food in his bowl and he repays you by jumping on the sofas / stealing your food / never ending barking etc. If you want to discover how one guy with no experience in dog training what so ever managed to train a dominant, hyper, cunning dog then you’re in the right place.
Even after Beary learned that peeing 20 times a day on my floor is not OK, he didn’t stop with the shenanigans. He stole food from our table, ate all our toilet paper (what’s up with dogs thinking toilet paper is a delicacy? Maybe I should try it sometime…) jumped on our sofas, barked way too much, humped my leg, chased squirrels/cats, tried to run away on our walks whenever he had the chance to and the list goes on and on… I was sick and tired of his obedience problems. I thought it was time to take a stand… either I’ll train him, or he will train me. until not long ago, I thought it’ll be the latter.
I went to a dog trainer in hope that Beary will learn to become a civilized dog. Well he did learn some new tricks but he never stopped making trouble around the house… I completed the whole 10 training lessons and Beary preformed well in training time but he never stopped ruining my house and he never followed any command in the money time.
Later on, I went to a dog training class I heard good things about. Beary started a fight with another dog the first time I dropped my leash to the ground (during stay command), and all the dog trainers could advise me is: “you should practice more with a long leash and a cold hot dog as a treat“. I was soooo disappointed… I thought I will never have a trained dog.
A few weeks ago, I ran into friend from the dog park. He had a cool, quite dog who never disobeyed an order and always came when called. I asked him for a few tips and he told me I should take a look if I want at this book… I started reading and it was really good. I finally understood why Beary acted like he did, and I had some techniques in my arsenal (like make him sit in front of his food) that made Beary a civilized dog.
I finally don’t need to worry about Beary stealing my food or destroying my leather couch. Although I didn’t like the fact that I couldn’t see live the instructions, the book made a dream of mine come true: to let Beary run freely without being worried he won’t come back. I hope this information was helpful to you, and your family dog training will improve as mine did. Click Here if you want to check out the book.
