Teaching Your Dog New Behavior

The dog training professionals agree that the best way (and certainly the most humane) to do dog obedience training is through the use of positive reinforcement training. This phrase refers to the use of positive reinforcement rewarding good behavior and ignoring unwanted behavior.

When you think positive thoughts to train your dog, your dog will respond. Dogs have a natural sense of what humans feel and think. So, when you use abusive action, your dog will get confused and not know what to do.

Work training your dog like you would teach your child how to do something. If you cannot show love, understanding, and patience, while dog training, then let someone else train your dog. Forcing your dog to learn new behaviors can leave deep seated fear in your dog that will last a life time.

Here are some ways to make dog obedience training with positive reinforcement an easier process for you and your best friend: Use these tips to train your dog and make good training progress.

1. Give your dog the reward it wants. When you integrate an excellent reward to give to your dog, you dog will definitely pay attention. Hes not going to miss getting some more of that good stuff after he follows your instructions. Use his favorite snack and see him perform.

2. Give rewards at the right time. Timing is everything when you are training your dog. Give a command, if he follows it, give him a reward immediately. Delayed rewards will get confused training results. You dog will not know what to do to get that reward. You will lose control of your dog obedience training session.

You can use a helper to train your dog, called a clicker. This clicker is a metal device that you hold in your hand. But dont be clicking it when you are not training. When you tell your dog to do something, no jump and he stops jumping, click the clicker and immediately give your dog a reward. The clicker can be an effective train tool, since it combines your voice, the click, and a reward for your dog.

You can do the same thing with your own voice; saying Yes in a happy voice will send the same message. Just remember to give the treat right away after this and say the same thing every time. This will cause your dog to associate the action, the marker and the reward. Consistency is the key.

When you start with your dog obedience training, determine what type of command technique you will use. Dont use the clicker one day and your strong voice the next. Always be consistent with the way you train your dog. This will eventually let your dog know that it is training time. If you make training fun, your dog will look forward to dog training time.

Even if your dog is exceptionally smart, you need to keep in mind that your dog can only understand a few words. You can teach your old dog new tricks, but you have to be consistent with both markers and rewards in order to be successful in teaching your dog desirable behaviors.

As long as you can stick with the basics of dog obedience training and with the ideas of positive reinforcement training, your dog will learn and the both of you will come through the training process unscathed. You will have a dog that other people will like and, of course, will like you for having such a behaved dog.