Dog Training The Easy Way

Training your dog yourself can be very rewarding and has many advantages. Just like your own child, your dog looks up to you and wants to make you happy. When you train your dog yourself you both learn to communicate with each other, and develop a special relationship.

Try to conduct your training exercises when your dog is hungry. You generally will be rewarding your dog’s good behavior with treats, and the treats will be more rewarding when your dog is hungry.

At first, you should conduct your dog training exercises in an area with no distractions. You may add distractions after your dog has the commands down pat.

You should spend about fifteen minutes a day training your dog. Start with one new command and do not move on to the next command until your dog learns that command. After moving on to the next command, rap up the training session with a recap of the previous learned commands.

Commands should be said in a commanding voice just slightly louder and deeper in tone than normal. Commands should be reinforced with hand signals or some type of body language.

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