Providing you address it correctly, in only a short time you will be amazed at how much you can achieve in training your dog to respond to your directions and behave properly. Just be realistic and don’t aim to do everything at once, particularly if there’s more than one area or problem to deal with.
Reward System
Training your dog successfully is based upon a simple principle – giving him rewards. Generally, dogs love to please their owners, and enjoy doing so even more when they are rewarded for it. Reward-based training is, therefore, the key to attaining a happy and obedient dog. Rewarding every desired behavior for a particular word combined with an action will evoke a learned response. Eventually, that response will become automatic every time you say the command or display the action.
Food is an all-important aspect of dog life, and thus food rewards when training your dog are likely to get the desired behavior results you want. Food training like teaching your dog the command of “sit,” “stay,” and “wait” before he’s given his food or treat marks a good start to achieving obedience in all other areas of behavior.
No Dog is the Same
Some dogs learn things faster than others. Large breeds tend to mature more slowly, so you sometime need to be extra patient when training your dog that’s from this category. Alternatively, small dogs can be too clever for their own good and you’ll have to be on your toes. Keep in mind that working breeds, while smart, have an innate instinct to chase, retrieve, guard or herd. These inbred instincts require disciplined handling and training to get the very best from them. By making training your dog time more of a game or a play is the key to succeed in handling different dogs.
