Dog obedience traing can be difficult when not carried out correctly. How do you stop a dog from doing something you wish he or she wouldn’t do? It isn’t always easy, especially when the dog sets its mind to doing it. Here are some suggestions to help you change the dog’s bad habits and improve your dog obedience training.

Dogs will constantly do what works for them. Any behavior that your dog displays, positive or negative, he/she does it because it gets them something they want. If its bad behavior that you don’t like or appreciate- think about what they get out of it and then take that away from the dog- the bad behavior will stop or change. Dog obedience training always starts with the right step. For instance, dogs generally jump up on people when they come home because they get some form of attention. Remove the attention and they will stop jumping up on you. You can remove the attention by saying “NO” with a firm voice and leave the room (closing a door works especially well) Don’t hit the animal. Wait a few seconds and try to re-enter the room – repeat until the dog gives you a different behavior. Reinforce the new behavior by entering the room and giving the dog the attention he seeks.

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Dog Obedience Training simply means the training of any dog.  It could range from basic (beginner’s) training to a high level (advanced) competition among different clubs where more accuracy and commands as well as performance are judged and scored.  A lot of dog trainers have a lot of fun during different competition events.

How would you know if the dog is obedient?  Just start training with the basic commands and see if it responds each time you give the command.  You can consider dog obedient, instead of just trained in obedience, when it responds reliably each and every time the command is given.  Not every dog that goes through a Dog Obedience Training is obedient though.  If it doesn’t responds to the trainer’s command right away, then your dog is not obedient yet.  Keep training, and it will.  Repetition and love is a key to an obedient dog.

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I hate the thought of paying hundreds to have our puppy trained when we could do it ourselves. Can someone help recommend a very good book to us,we have a border collie currently 8 weeks old.

We adopted a dog from the Humane Society last week.. she’s a 5 year old beagle/basset mix. Today we took her to a dog wash sponsored by the Humane Society and she was pretty jumpy and barky. The other dogs there were calm and sitting next to their owners. It was slightly embarrassing until everyone there decided our dog was unbelievably adorable.. (Everyone LOVES her.. she is pretty darn cute if I do say so). Anyhoo… can we take her to obedience class at this point? She’s not very good on a leash… always wants to follow her beagle nose.
She does not chew on furniture or anything that she shouldn’t… I’m most worried about her behavior on the lead and in public around other dogs.

i have a german shepherd, hes 2 years old. hes a good boy good temeperament and is house broken. he knows simple commands such as sit. but when hes playing outside, he wont come to me when i call him. how much would it cost to give him obedience training. i know there are different levels, but i want it to get to the point that if i tell him to lay, hell lay for 5 min without me even being in the room.

Does anyone know of any good beginner dog obedience/training classes offered in Indianapolis, or its surrounding areas?

Pricing? Website? Phone number?

Thanks!

There are two basic methods used in training dog obedience. Shaping and luring. Shaping is usually linked with the click and treat, or positive reward, training system.

Shaping a dog to do particular activities produces a dog that will think for itself. If you could read a dogs mind, a shaped dog will be saying “How do I get that treat. What do I need to do? Let’s try this. No. Let’s try that. No. Maybe this will work”

A dog that has been taught solely by luring would be saying “Without any food in that hand I will not be doing a damb thing. Forget it buddy.”

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When I have my poodle a nursing home near Sarasota, Fla., was seriously deficient in training dogs in need. However, obedience training is not anything Lily needed. First, Lily had a home.

Lily was a happy girl. A host family took after the puppy mill where he was a farmer must go. Apparently, it has not worked well in the Labradoodle breeding program. His family home, took a month to clean and repeatedly before being released for approval.

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Dogs are naturally pack animals. This means they need an alpha to lead them in their everyday lives, and this also means the owner must act alpha; that the dog should consider you as the boss for the obedience training to proceed smoothly. Individual dogs vary in submissiveness, and to establish and maintain dominance over your dog, there are a number of exercises you can establish.  Do not worry; most dogs are happy to be submissive. Just be sure to show approval at the occasional signs of submission, and assert dominance if it tries to test you.

There are two components of training, one that solves behavioral problems, and there is that one that creates a command-response pattern. The latter type is called “Obedience Training”.  However, both need one factor: A good Alpha.

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