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Success Tips For Dog Training

By: Dr. Mayra Alfonso

Is it possible to train your dog at home? You bet it is! Many owners have chosen to go this route to avoid the expenses of paying for a professional dog trainer, and even to avoid the expense of putting gas on their cars, especially these days when gas prices had sky rocket. The most important thing a pet owner needs to consider when he or she is thinking about training their pet at home is that there are the basics of dog training. These dog training success tips are what are going to make or break your training efforts.

What is difficult about training a dog? In reality training a dog does not have to be as difficult as many people think. It is not only the privileged that can train their dogs because they can afford taking their pets to dog training classes. Anybody who is serious about training their dogs can do it. All they need to do is to apply a few dog training success tips.

What is the first tip that you as your dog's trainer need to be familiar with? To successfully train your puppy there are three criterias that are critical: patience, consistency and persistence. Without these three your dog training efforts will most likely be unsuccessful.

What is the alpha dog? Why do you want your dog to see you as the alpha dog? Well, first of all, dogs do not know the difference between humans and dogs. Just because you are big, and tall (in your dog's eyes), do not make you immediately the alpha. Dogs consider you a member of the pack, because they are pack animals. They do not know that you are humans and they are not, or that they are dogs and you are not. You are just a member of the pack, and because of this you need to demonstrate to your dog that you are the alpha, otherwise your dog will become your alpha, and believe it, they can be very good at it.

Don't expect your dog to be perfect, especially if you just started training him. There will be times when he just will forget what you taught him, or even worse, might decide he does not want to do it. When your dog fails to do what you ask him to don't scold him, just correct his behavior at once while he is making the mistake. Correcting your pet mistakes later on in time will prove to be ineffective, by then the dog will have forgotten what it was all about.

So what is positive reinforcement? It is a very simple term to understand and it is definitively one of the dog training success tips that you need to apply to your dog training routine. Every time your pet behaves in a way you want him to, follow the behavior with some treats that your dog loves or with lots of praise.

A very common mistake that owners make is to have long training sessions for their pets. There is a major reason why this is not advisable, and it has to do with the short attention span that dogs have. Instead, make the dog training sessions short, to the point and fun. Your pet will appreciate it and will be more eager to please you.

Should a dog owner get discouraged if the dog does not behave the way he wants him to at first? Definitively not, this is where patience and consistency comes into play. Don't be discouraged if your pup doesn't listen to you at first, if you persist, in not time your puppy will get it. There are a few benefits of training your own dog: increase your bonding with him, have fun while training him, get a better behaved dog and save money.

These are just some of the dog training success tips that you can apply when training your dog at home. As trainer, do not be discouraged at the first try of training your dog, instead have enough patience and believe that you can actually train your dog and in doing so, ended up with a bunch of savings.

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