How to Train Your Dog in 6 STEPS
You bought your new dog and desperate to train it. Wait for a moment and understand few things before you do anything. This will come in handy while training your dog.
Socializing is one of the best activities during dog training. The sooner you start training your dog, the better result will be.
Initially, it feels pretty overwhelming especially when it is your first dog. It is a very big project to do. The results would be very drastic if you take it to step by step.
Following are some steps to get started with dog training.
House-training and Crate-training
Most of the peoples keep their dogs inside of their house and most likely be same with you. If it is not the case with you the best idea would be to start with house training. Training like how to behave indoor, urinating, eliminating is the best way to start.
The reason behind starting with the house is because activities will be small and easily consumed by your dog and there will be no problem for you to train your dog.
Crate training is also a good method to start training. It provides a personal space to your dog.
Socializing
Taking your dog outside for a walk to familiarize the outside world is a very integral part of the training. Without this activity, your dog behaves very oddly when exposed to other people and animals.
Controlled exposure is very crucial for better understanding. Socializing your dog is exploring things and developing resistance against fears and phobias. Socializing makes your dog’s health and behavior much better.
Fun tricks and Games
Playing games and doing fun tricks are good ways to learn. Animals especially dogs enjoy it very much and they learn many things while playing.
Many people play with sticks and tennis balls with their dogs. And dogs learn many things in the fun and play. For dogs owner, it is the safe and sound way of training a dog.
Multiple games can be played to train your dog like find the toy, return to sender, follow your nose, and many more.
Clicker Training
The most common method of training a dog is clicker training. It is relatively easy and quick, dogs learn quickly by clicker method.
The dog is told to do a task and when completed you click the clicker. And in return dog will get some reward most commonly a snack. Repetition of this method results in the learning of any activity you are teaching to your dog.
Dog training centers mostly use this method to teach a dog any particular trick.
Basic commands
A few of the things you must train your dog are basic commands such as sit, stand, jump, grab, drop, etc. These tricks are the building block of all activities and it teaches your dog discipline which is necessary for a dog. Because your mommy may not want you to keep that dog if your dog is not disciplined or mess with household stuff.
These basic commands will teach your dog how to behave outside and will make a great relationship between you and your dog. And hand in hand you can impress your friends.
Advance Training
Advance training is a good way to train your dog but it can only be done after basic training.
Advance training includes many games such as hide and seek, grab frisbee, grab a ball, and many others.
Training is a continuing process after sometimes your dog might forget something or don’t know how to do any particular thing. You have to train your dog little by little chunk by chunk but continuous.
And most important thing HAVE FUN while training your dog because it will keep you healthy and your dog thriving.
