Dog Training - How To Train Your Dog To Be Obedient

Even in natural habitats, a dog will have some kind of enforced limits of behavior by the pack structure and hierarchy that exists. Success will come quickly to anyone that praises a dog for good behavior.

For example - If you ask your dog to sit and she does, you give her a treat. In the dogs mind sitting when told equals treat.

Now what if you tell the dog to sit and she doesn't, and then you punish her? In the dogs mind you have just doled out a random punishment for nothing.

This can only serve to puzzle your dog and lead her to mistrust you.

Positive reinforcement is the key.

Into bad habits. This is standard territorial behavior.

Your dog warns you - as a member of its pack - that there's potential danger at the doorway. If your dog spends the best part of its waking life barking at nearly anything including you, then it is formed into a bad habit - but one that's straightforward to fix. The particular reason why this could not work is simple. From your point of view you are hollering at your dog to shut up. From your dogs' perspective, you are barking along and enjoying the noise. A better system is to hang about for a pause in your dogs barking then heap heaps of praise and a treat on your dog. As quickly as the barking starts again, ignore your dog, walk off - anything except don't pay your dog any attention.

Also wild dogs will lick the face of a higher member of the pack to express and accept their submissive standing in the pack. This is maybe going to bare the kid to germs that its immune mechanism would doubtless not be ready to handle. In a corresponding way if your dog has worms or has been looking into other dogs' faeces or grooming itself, the final thing you want is for your dog to come and lick your face. When the dog first responses to the'No' phrase, it is time for a treat. Jumping Up - Jumping up may not appear such a bad habit, but if there are babies about it can be quite hazardous. Your dog will not know that jumping on you is o.k. But jumping on the youngsters isn't. There are heaps of simple tactics you can train your dog. These are some. There is no real need to endure bad habits in your dog as they can be so simply cured.