Teaching Your Pet

Many people want the best for their animals, trying to get them to go to canine obedience, dog daycare, and pet stylists but the best things you can do to teach your animal is to teach them your self because after all you want them to obey you and not necessarily someone else which could possibly happen if you are allowing someone else to teach them to listen to a person.

The best way to teach your animal is to sign up for training lessons with a professional, and these will not be too expensive and will a great way for someone to teach you how to teach your animal which will be important because they will not always be there to tell you what to do or be there to make your animal listen to you so you will want to take notes or memorize what they tell you to do so that you can use that information for yourself when you are at home.

But many of us do not have time for these long classes which may not be available near you or may be too far away from your home or perhaps are scheduled for times that are inconvenient for you, so there are some easy tips to get started training your animal to obey you.

The best way to make sure that your animal listens to you when you call it is to make sure that it thinks that it will get a treat or some other type of positive reinforcement when it does come, so what you will want to do is to have someone hold the animal at some distance away from you, you will then want to tell them to "come" saying it in a firm voice, and making sure that you are keeping the tone consistent every time that you do this so that the animal can recognize it and will know what to do.

Once the animal comes to you, you will want to give it a small treat and praise it by saying "good boy" so that it can correlate the positive attention and the treat to coming when it is called, and then you will start to alternate having treats and not having treats, and then try many with no treats at all, to see whether they will obey and will come if the voice pith and tone are right and still give them the positive reinforcement.

You will want this to occur over several days and even weeks repeating this process or just stretching it out over the length of that period so that it takes effect slowly so the animal will be conditioned to listen to you when you call them, and will not just forget what it is supposed to do because you did not spend enough time teaching them what they are supposed to do when they hear you make a certain sound, and always remember that positive and negative reinforcement are good, but hitting your animal will never teach them constructively it will only hurt them.