Five Steps To Complete Failure At Training Your Scottish Terrier

When educated through proper training Scottish terrier dogs turn into wonderful companions to you and to your family. Giving your Scottie good training will overcome nearly every behavior problem and help in creating a prolonged and lasting relationship between you. Once trained and disciplined your Scottie will socialize better with other dogs and live in harmony with your children and your neighbors' children.

However, many owners do not understand a number of fundamental concepts for successfully training a Scottish terrier. Do you?

Did you know that various of your Scottie's problems may be produced by you? Did you know that the way you react to a bad behavior can further encourage it?

Are you aware of the fact that your behavior on and off the training sessions is so important that it can make the difference between success and failure of the training program?

Here are five easy steps that if followed will transform training your Scottish terrier into a total waste of time:

1. Ignore his bad behaviors, let him freely do whatever he wants to, in the hope that he will lose his bad habits once he grows up. Your smart Scottie will soon realize that you are weak and do not control him, so he will take control.

2. Turn into a routine calling him for a reprimand or punishment. He will soon learn to relate that answering to your calling has to do with unpleasant situations for him. The immediate consequence will be him no longer obeying your "come" command.

3. Lose your temper and yell at him each occasion something goes wrong during a training session. He will cease paying attention to you or - what's worse - will start barking back at you.

4. Vary as much as possible the training instructions and methods, use variable command words on each different occasion, correct a bad behavior every now and then only. Your Scottie will get confused, not knowing the response you expect from him on a command.

5. Hit or smack your Scottie. He will get anxious and aggressive, his behavior becoming completely unpredictable with a great chance of him trying to hit back and bite you. Undoubtedly this is one of the best ways to kill your relationship from the beginning.

The above directions is a surefire way to completely fail at training your Scottish terrier. As a consequence, instead of that wonderful companion, you will have a destructive, unreliable and unwelcome creature that will turn out as an authentic nightmare for everyone in your home.