Thursday, April 22, 2010

Methods To Raise A Smart Golden Retriever

By Johnny Goodson

One of the smartest and evenly tempered dogs of all is the Golden Retriever. There are many different methods employed when training on e of these dogs, and a fee of the most successful are listed below for you to have a look at.

One of the most aspects of training your golden retriever is training them to behave. This is vital to ensure that they are well behaved around other animals and people, particularly children. Also covered under this subject is house training and walking on the leash.

One part of the training that retrievers particularly enjoy, and excel at, is the activity training. They are taught search and rescue, hunting and herding amongst others. There are more activities too which you and your pet can do together.


 Although obedience training sounds very specific; it actually also consists of behavioral training. So the dog will be well behaved and obedient at all times.


Obedience training is perfect is you want a very obedient retriever who behaves very well and obeys all your commands with the minimum of fuss. He will have got out of the puppyish habits of chewing and barking just for the hell of it.

Have a good think about which skills you want your dog to be most adept at. There is of course, no limit on the training that you give your pet, but it a bit unfair to expect them to excel at everything.

If you are uncertain as to which class to go with first, take direction from your retriever. If he's rather uncontrollable, start him off firstly with behavior, this is generally the first step for retrievers.

All of these are very effective methods when it comes to training your Golden Retriever. The key is consistency and discipline, as success will always come with these things.

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