Thursday, April 15, 2010

Train Your Dog At Home Or At A Dog Obedience School?

By Josephine Lim

There are some basic things that one needs to understand about dog obedience training. Almost every dog owner wants their dog to behave like an obedient dog just like the T.V. dogs. Some of the dog owners also seek dog training schools as they believe that the best training can only be given by the dog training schools, but it's not the fact.

Dog obedience training can be done at home itself, without sending your dog to any school. I would say that the best training can be given at home only, by the dog owner itself. But in order to start training your dogs at home, you should consider re-thinking about some myths.

Below are some myths that are believed by many of the people. I strongly recommend you to see these points and think for yourself.

* Training older dogs is not possible: I believe older dogs have already developed their mind, body and are mature enough to understand things better than a few months old dog could do. You get a better response from an older dog due to their mature instincts.

* Older dogs can't be trained: People say, older dogs can't be trained good but I believe that older dogs are the best to be trained. They have their mind developed to understand things better, they have their body developed to take any physical task. This makes them ideal for training.

* Discipline is required to train the dog: Discipline would surely give you a trained dog but this dog would live his life in fear. Don't think that the dog will do whatever you say happily if it's been trained in a much disciplined schedules. Dog will only obey you due to the fear.

It doesn't take much of your effort but a few small tips would make your dog an obedient dog.

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