Dog Training Advice For Teaching Your Puppy New Tricks

One thing that most all trainers agree on, when it comes to dog training advice, is that the best time to start exposing your dog to training and discipline is when it is a young puppy. Unfortunately, some people wait until their dog is several months old before they even begin any type of training program.

The best trained dogs are those that are exposed to a regular training program during the young puppy stage, however, all dogs will continue to learn as they mature and grow older.

Puppies are quite similar to young children.   They are playful, curious, and they learn quickly to identify the person(s) who respond to their needs such as food, water, care, and attention.

As your puppy develops, he will learn to associate some of his actions with your counter responses.  For example, you have a designated area for your puppy to sleep.  Each night after you go to bed, he begins to cry. Each night, you go to him, sit with him, or take him to bed with you. After you do this repeatedly, you have trained your dog that when he cries, he gets his way, and you will come and get him.  Children, again, are very similar.

Most people typically think that rolling over, fetching, and other tricks when you mention the word “dog training”.   However, dog training goes much deeper than that.  In addition to heel, sit, stay, come, and fetch , there are many other areas involved in the training of a dog.

There’s housetraining, of course, for the indoor dog.  There’s also teaching a dog not to beg, tear up your shoes, gnaw the legs of the furniture, scratch your doors, roll all of the toilet paper off the roll, or eat the houseplants.  Dogs have to be schooled not only how to “do” things, but also what things “not to do.”

Dogs are much smarter than some people give them credit for, and some breeds are more responsive to training than others are.  Some dog breeds can be taught to retrieve game, even in water, and return it unharmed to their master.

There are dogs in the circus that can be taught to do amazing tricks .  Dogs that “act on television and in the movies have been very, very well trained. And we’ve all heard a rumor that some dogs can even be trained to get your house slippers for you, and then go outside and get your newspaper.

Dog training advice experts will tell you that dogs can be trained in a variety of ways, and some of the most common methods of getting a dog to “do” something are by way of sounds, voice inflections, hand signals, and using a reward system (treats).

Instinctively, nearly all dogs want to please their masters.  They can tell by the tone of your voice when they have done something wrong. Dogs can tell they have done something wrong just by the tone of your voice.   Your dog will learn to respond to your voice tone on a regular basis if you consistently use this tone.

One more important piece of dog training advice that is not the recommended method of training is to hit or beat a dog.   It is not necessary to hit or hurt a dog in order to train them, even if you hear some trainers say that it is ok to roll up a newspaper and swat the dog.   Actually, this method of training can do more harm than good.

Just like people, dogs want attentino and love . If you are willing to spend time with them and show them love, affection, and of course discpline, then your puppy will usually be eager to learn from you. Just make sure to do it in a healthy and positive way!