Thursday, September 23, 2010

Training Your Dog - Important Tips

By Tom Singleton

I know we all love dogs, but it's important to know that they can be especially dangerous, when they have not been trained properly. If they are professionally trained the difference in their control and ability to behave predictably in most situations is remarkable. And it helps ensure they will not behave in a dangerous manner. So, there's much more to owning a dog than just feeding it great foods and making sure to keep a stock of Frontline Plus flea and tick on hand. You have to know how to train it or you will be miserable as a dog owner.

I recall the story of a neighbor of mine who had a greyhound that did not like to be left alone in the house. This presented a problem whenever the owners left for the store or were away at work. Once when they returned home from shopping they found a bottle of bleach that had been dragged into the middle of the dining room from its storage place under the kitchen sink. What made this incident costly for the owners was that somehow their dog managed to unscrew the cap from the bottle. This allowed the contents to empty on their imported Persian rug. The couple immediately realized they could have saved the $5000 cost of the precious carpet had they sprung for $250 in training fees for their pet. They told me they briefly thought about soaking him in Frontline Plus flea and tick to teach him a lesson, but sanely decided to purchase the services of a professional trainer.

Dog training, to be done effectively, entails possessing a lot of patience. Dogs are not humans and so can't hear you when you speak. You have to teach your dog how to understand you when you speak and by what you say or the gestures you use. So, you can't succeed in training your dog within hours or even days. It takes time and a great deal of patience. But when it's done, it's done. When properly trained, you can rest assured that your dog will remain properly trained

Think about giving yourself a few days to a week before you train your dog to get to know its behavior patterns. This provides a baseline for what is trainable compared with the dog's natural instincts. Especially if you are a newbie owner, this period of observation will pay off with huge benefits.

The training that you give to your dog requires that you have a good grasp of how to properly train dogs. There are specific things to do and others not to do, when training your dog. If you don't know exactly what you need to do, then perhaps you should learn from a successful dog trainer or coach, to guide you in the training process. If and when you master it, you will certainly achieve good results from the entire process.

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