Dog Boundary Training

 

One of the hardest dog trainings to achieve is the boundary training. Dog boundary training is basically training your dog to stay within a range and no matter what distractions it may be confronted with, your dog will never attempt to go beyond your house's perimeters. Once your dog is trained to know its boundaries, you could avoid your dog being hit by a car across the streets or you avoid the risk of your dog running away and be gone forever

Teaching your dog to stay within boundaries is an easy task as long as you have the dedication and patience for your dog. Before you go on with the boundary training, you must first make sure that your dog knows basic obedience commands such as "Sit", "Come" and "Stay" and also your dog must be used to an award system wherein every time your dog accomplishes a task, you give him a treat, petting and praises.

When you first do your dog boundary training, it's better to start inside your house to keep your dog from running further away. You can use your door as an imaginary boundary which will later on be your house's fences. As you bring your dog near the door, hold him by his collar and in a strong and authoritative voice, give him the command to not go any further. You can use words like"halt" or "stop". To make it more effective you can also reinforce your command by placing your hands in front of your dog's face. What you are giving him is strong set of verbal and voice cues to let him know that he should not go further.

As soon as you observe that your dog stops immediately upon giving the command, never forget to reward the dog. Praise him and do lots of petting. However if he misses the command, hold him by the collard and repeat the process. This is the cumbersome part but sooner or later, when you are just patient enough, your dog will show signs of progress. Keep doing this until you no longer have to hold the dog by his collar. Always remember, reward the dog for every accomplishment he makes.

Once you are confident enough that your dog is accepting commands, then you can proceed by having your door open a little bit in such a way your dog will feel excited about going outside. Train your dog to go to the door and let him halt through your commands and let him go out only if you said so. Repeat the process until your dog is showing signs of positive improvements.