Dog Obedience Training

The first step in training your dog/puppy is obedience training. This form of training is important in helping your dog understand that you are in command. It offers a learning curve for the owner as well as the dog, and instead of teaching a dog specific actions, it helps them understand the right and wrongs, for both the owner and dog, and both will learn together and grow a stronger companionship together.

There is no better time to commence with obedience training than when your dog is a puppy. You have to take the puppy as a child and teach them obedience from a younger age as possible. Often owners think this is cruel, but they will be the ones who have a dog that is not properly trained and completely out of hand when it is older, if obedience training is not put into practice. As you will take the motherly role, any wrong steps should be treated correctly and the same goes for everything your puppy does correctly, praise him or her, and reward it, just as you would a child.

A local training school will teach you the necessary basics of obedience training, and there should be a local one nearby where you live. The key to a friendly, well behaved and sociable dog is to obedience training, and not only will you love your dog but so will others.

Obedience training will teach you to reward and punish your puppy. It should be noted that at any time your puppy misbehaves you should never physically your dog, and a verbal comment, action or noise will be adequate. It should be noted that if your dog misbehaves then you should not shout its name as it will confuse your dog, and when you are normally shouting their name, your dog may think it has misbehaved and that you are shouting at it. A word like ‘NO’ will allow the dog to understand it is in the wrong, instead of using the dog’s name. Whenever the dog does as it’s told, then edible rewards and lots of fussing up will work wonders, as well as verbal praises such as ‘good boy’ or ‘good girl’.