Saturday, January 9, 2010

Does Your Dog Need Dog Training?

By Carl Covason

You are feeling on top of the world. You have a beautiful family, wonderful career, picture perfect house, and you even have a dog.

You wake up a 6 am with a smile on your face. You have a whole hour to yourself to get ready for work before you have to wake the kids up. You go about your morning quietly humming to yourself as you make your pot of coffee. The aroma is filling the house and you can't help but think how lucky you are.

You happen to notice that your neighbor is taking their little brown dog out for a walk. Your thinking how nice to be out so early for some fresh air and a bit of exercise. Then out of nowhere your dog comes pounding through the kitchen and to the window. The hair on his back is raised and he lets out a low growl. Before you can get to him he is in full fled barking mode and there is nothing you can do to prevent him from waking up the whole house.

As your trying desperately to quite him the baby starts wailing, and the kids are groggily coming out of their bedrooms. In exasperation you look on at your kids because you know that within five minutes your house will be in full swing and you have not even had your first cup of coffee, let alone read the paper or gotten ready for work. Your beautifully peaceful morning has just flown out the window.

That's it you think. That dog needs dog training, barking at all hours of the day has got to go.

The need to get your dog trained has stayed in the back of your mind all day long. Your feeling a bit frazzled but you go about your work as normal. You pick your children up after work just in the nick of time for them to start getting over tired. Who can blame them, they got woke up extra early today. You get home and file them all in the house.

As you step through the door yourself your dog comes flying at you because he missed you so much. You nearly escape hitting the ground with your dog on top of you. You have a new demand to add to your dog training, jumping has to go as well. As you get your dog off and look over you see it... there is a huge hole directly in the middle of the rooms carpet.

You look at your beloved dog as the kids are all crowding around him. They are all pleading with you with their eyes to please not be angry. The dog is after all very, very sorry.

All you can think is that dog is a nuisance but there is nothing you can do. The children are head over heals in love with their dog and in truth, so are you. Regardless, you have to stop your dog digging holes especially in the middle the living room floor. That is when dog obedience training comes into play. The best way to get your dog to behave is to train him to do so.

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