Article by Sandy Rutherforde

Training is definitely a crucial component of a good relationship between a dog and its owner. Even when you adopt a mature dog who has a complete repertoire of commands mastered, practice sessions won’t only reinforce these commands but establish a stronger connection between you. Your pet will appreciate the time spent with each other, having a task to accomplish, plus the exercise of body and brain – if you go about training correctly.

When a puppy enters your life, training is all the more crucial. You have a canine blank slate waiting to become shaped into a well-behaved dog; and in the event you disregard reinforcement of appropriate behaviors plus the drawing away from undesirable behaviors, chances are you are likely to end up with an out-of-control terror once the puppy is full grown.

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Article by Mirela Vintila

Clicker Training is a reward based method of training that works by taking a sound that has no meaning for the dog (the click) and teaching him that the sound itself is rewarding as it means a treat is coming. This is then linked to the dog’s action’s, so that the click comes to mean ‘what you just did earned a click which then results in a treat’.First of all show the dog the thing you are going to teach him to do,either by luring: using a bit of food held on the end of the dog’s nose to manouvre him into position (such as a sit or a down) click immediately as he does it, and then give him a treat.You can also use shaping:wait until the dog does the first part of the exercise and click and treat,then build up in stages to the finished exercise.Next, get him to use his brain, in the case of the sit, begin once he’s reliably sitting when you hold a treat on his nose and lure him into position. Take the treat, hold it, and wait. The dog needs to work out that what made you reward him with a click and treat was putting his bottom on the floor. The instant he does, you click and treat. Now he’s using his brain and not just blindly following food.The next step is to put a name to the behaviour by saying the word as he’s doing the action-so linking putting his bottom on the floor with the word ‘sit,’ with practice, this word will cue the behaviour and you can reward the response with the click and the treat, and, most importantly, the treat should now be out of your hand.Then you need to get out and about and do this everywhere so the dog learns that ‘sit’ means ‘sit’- wherever you are. Once the dog does the behaviour reliably, you can begin to fade out the clicker so that you’re clicking and treating less often, until the clicker isn’t needed anymore.

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Article by William Brown

The biggest training secrets of the dog training may be the simplest one. Choosing a method tailored to your dog’s breed, age, and personality will multiply best outcome while using a one-size-fits-all training method may not work with every dog. Researching diverse in styles of training through guides and talking to your veterinarian can help you pick the best training choice for you and your pet.

Many manners issues can be addressed with dog trainings. If your puppy isn’t housebroken or your older dog all of a sudden becomes aggressive, you can find a simple and effective technique to retrain the behavior issue. Thinking that a dog obedience school is the only alternative is something that many new dog owners think that they have to do. One of the secrets to dog training is that you can train your dog on your own with stellar results when you find the right way for you and your pet. While it is best to set up training methods when your pet is young, there are many methods that work for different ages and breeds of dogs.

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Question by : Is Clicker Dog Training better than traditional Dog Training?

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Answer by Jenny Manyteeth
No. It’s different.

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Article by Melanie McClure

Musical canine freestyle is a fun way to train your dog. I got started in training dogs when I got my first two Australian shepherds. I enjoyed teaching them basic obedience, but then I wanted to know what more could I teach my smart dogs. Teaching basic obedience was easy and fun and I wanted something more advanced I could teach them at such a young age. I also needed something I could teach from the comfort of our own home. I thought about agility training, but my dogs needed to be over the age of one to really get into that and it requires a special field with special equipment.

Then, I finally discovered musical canine freestyle. It combines the best of obedience, agility and trick training and adds in some musical creativity and dance! My dogs loved it from the start. Musical canine freestyle is a dog sport in which you do heelwork to music and add in all sorts of creative and basic tricks like sit, lay, spin, jumps, leg weaves, and circle around, etc. The choreography of the routine is up to you to create and has very few restrictions. You get to chose what moves work well for you and your dog and select music that compliments your dogs’ movement so it looks like he is dancing to the music.

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Article by Tracy Despard

Clickers have been around far longer then many people realize. They have been used not only to train dogs but have been used to train horses and whales and countless other types of animals. Clicker training is a positive method of training that encourages an animal to lean and recognize by himself when he has done something good. Clicker training really works.

The fundamental idea of clicker training is to get the animal to recognise what the noise of a click means. A click is employed to tell your pet when he has performed something properly and that he’ll be rewarded.

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