How To Have Your Dog Obey You Like A Dog Should

The neonate period refers to the first two weeks of a puppy's life. During the neonate period, a dog is incapable of learning anything by experience. The neonate period is not the time to train your puppy because its motor skills and senses are still underdeveloped.

A dog is called a canis lupus familiaris. A dog is man's best friend because of the almost human like bond that it forms with the right training you will enjoy the best of your dog when you train it properly.

A dog will be able to respond to a command if you use it more often. Consistency in dog training helps your dog to respond positively to your commands. Hand signals and body language are all part of the communicative tools used by dog trainer to train a dog.

It is essential that you punish your dog for any improper behavior the instant it displays it to discourage it from the behavior in the future. If you don't punish your dog the minute it misbehaves, it will not know what it has done and will probably keep on doing it. If you punish your dog much later for an action it committed hours before, it will not be able to understand the reason why you punished it and will probably distance itself from you.

Prong or pinch collar is a dog training device that helps to put a dog in check in order to prevent it from acting in a way that you don't like. The prong collar consists of metal inks that fit together by connecting teeth which point upwards towards the dog's neck. The prong collar basically pokes the dog into action.

Some training gadgets are designed with the size of the dog in mind. Some huge dogs have such thick necks that some collars would be a miserable fit on. If you have a particularly large dog, a pronged collar will be good for it.

Dogs need to be potty trained. Potty training a dog is part of its training program. A dog that leaves its excreta all over your house can hardly be viewed as 'cute'. You need to teach your dog so that it lets you know when it wants to relieve itself.

Never use any dog-training device that you are not sure of. Dog training tools can turn to lethal weapons in the wrong hands. Make sure that you know the function of each tool for dog training before you use it.