Learn Easy and Fun Strategies to Teach Your Retriever Puppy
Before beginning obedience training develop the desire to retrieve. To test if your pup has inherited natural retrieving tendencies toss a toy, ball, or a puppy-size canvas dummy a few feet in front of the pup. You are testing if he will go after it and bring it back to you. If he is not interested in retrieving or does not give up the object means you will need to spend time teaching this skill. Many dogs become just as eager and competent retrievers even though they may not start out with natural abilities.
The retrieving experience should be playful and fun for the pup. Take your dog to a field or park where you can throw a dummy for him to fetch, keeping him on a long lunge line. When throwing the dummy, enthusiastically tell him to fetch. As soon as he reaches the dummy and picks it up vigorously encourage him to return to you. The secret is to run away from your dog so that he has to chase you carrying the dummy. Do not get discouraged if your dog will not pick up the dummy. He can learn that skill when you teach him basic obedience. The training strategy is to teach your pup to come back to you when playing fetch even if it is without the dummy. Using a dog whistle for the return signal is recommended because the sound is more commanding than voice.
Before serious obedience training, it is important to allow your puppy time to adjust to the house rules, boundaries, and be introduced to the leash. Even though the brain of a pup is completely developed, the focus is scattered, and he will bounce from one activity to another. Your puppy will often drop off to sleep since physical growth takes so much of the energy.
The word no will be the most used word for the first few months. Remember, when reprimanding your dog you need to catch him in the act for him to understand the correction. Set up times when you actually let your dog do the misdeed so you can correct and teach him. Eventually just a firm no when he is tempted will be enough to stop any wrong moves.
The sit command is the second command I teach after teaching the dog to come back. If you teach your dog to sit every time he comes to you, it will stop problems of jumping on people. This can be taught in a soft manner as early as eleven weeks.
The first weeks and months is the time to instill a winning attitude in your dog. The result will be a puppy that wants to come back to you, who will listen to you, and who will be broken to the leash. Your retriever will be ready for formal training lessons at four months.
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Electronic Dog Training Collars Helps You Teach Your Dog
An electronic dog training collar is ideal for all dog owners wishing to train their dog including:
• professional dog trainers
• behaviorists
• veterinary practitioners
• farmers
Surveys have shown that the electronic dog training collar has resulted in the lives of many dogs being saved, as well as there has been an enormous reduction in stress and frustration for owners and dog trainers of dogs with behavior problems. The electronic dog training collar has also prevent may problematic dogs that others found un-trainable from being put to sleep. Many dogs that have been said to be un-trainable have been trained with the electronic dog training collar.
One of the main factors to take into consideration when training your dog is this. Your dog has limited ability for logical reasoning, making immediate consequences necessary for your dog to associate his punishment with his bad behavior. Late punishment will often make the dog reluctant to obey, and return to the trainer, just to be punished. The electronic dog training collar aids in eliminating this problem, and is proven effective do to the immediate consequence to the dog.
When the electronic dog training collar is used properly, it will eventually raise the dog trainer to the level of “pack leader”, and will enable the trainer to become physical with the dog less and less. The message the electronic dog training collar sends hits home for the dog very quickly and since it is possible to use low levels of stimulation, it will not damage the dog’s spirit. Most electronic dog training collars do not shock, yet a long uncomfortable tingle.
The electronic dog training collar is a great aiding tool to dog training, but should never be used as a short cut to conventional dog training. The electronic dog training collar is a training aid, and should never be used as a punishment tool. Furthermore, the electronic dog training collar is not, itself, a dog trainer. You are. It is your responsibility to ensure the electronic dog collar is used as a training aid.
Although the electronic dog training collar has proven beneficial to most dog owners and trainer who have used them, there are certain circumstances when an electronic dog training collar may not be the best method of training. You should never use an electronic dog training collar if:
• Your dog has a heart condition
• Your dog has a nervous disposition
• Your dog is less than 10 months old
Dog training with an electronic dog training collar should cease immediately if there are any signs of trauma to your dog.
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