Training your puppy - start by winning his respect and confidence

The basis of training any animal is winning its trust,
confidence and respect. True training cannot begin until
the animal has accepted you as its leader, respects you
and entrusted you with his or her confidence.

The mistake many puppy owners make is mistaking love and
affection for respect and confidence. While it is
certainly important to love your new puppy, it is also
very important that the puppy respect you and see you as
his leader. Dogs are naturally pack animals, and every
dog looks to the lead dog for advice and direction.
Making yourself the pack leader is vital to the success
of training any dog.

Failure to gain the respect of the dog can create a dog
who is disobedient, out of control and even dangerous.
Problem dogs are dangerous, whether they are created
through bad breeding, owner ignorance or improper
training. It is important to train the dog right from
the start, since retraining a problem dog is much more
difficult than training a puppy right the first time.

It is important for any new dog owner, whether working
with a 12 week old puppy or a twelve year old dog, to
immediately get the respect of the animal. That does not
mean using rough or dangerous handling methods, but it
does mean letting the dog know that you are in control of
the situation. Dogs need structure in their lives, and
they will not resent the owner taking control. As a
matter of fact, the dog will appreciate your taking the
role of trainer and coach as you begin your training
session.

When working with the dog, it is important to keep the
training sessions short at first. This is particularly
important when working with a young puppy, since puppies
tend to have much shorter attention spans than older
dogs. Keeping the training sessions short, and fun, is
essential for proper training.

Beginning training sessions should focus on the most
basic commands. The heel command is one of the most
basic, and one of the easiest to teach. Start by putting
the dog or puppy in a properly fitted training collar.
Be sure to follow the instructions for fitting and sizing
the color to ensure that it works as intended.

Begin to walk and allow your dog to walk beside you. If
the dog begins to pull, gently pull on the leash. This
in turn will tighten the training collar and correct the
dog.

If the gentle pressure is ineffective, it may be
necessary to slowly increase the pressure. Always be
careful to not over-correct the dog. Using too much
pressure could frighten the dog and cause it to strain
more. I the opposite problem occurs and the dog lags
behind, the owner should gently encourage it until it is
walking beside the owner.

Most dogs figure out the heeling concept fairly rapidly,
and quickly figure out that they should walk beside their
owners, neither lagging behind nor pulling ahead. Once
the dog has mastered heeling at a moderate pace, the
owner should slow his or her pace and allow the dog to
adjust along with it.

The owner should also speed up the
pace and allow the dog to speed up as well. Finally,
walking along and changing pace often will reinforce the
lesson that the dog should always walk at the heel of the
handler.

From heeling, the next step should be to halt on
command. This halt command works well as an adjunct to
heel. As you are walking, stop and watch you dog. Many
dogs immediately realize that they are expected to stop
when their handler does. Others may need the reminder of
the leash and the training collar.

After the halt on command has been mastered, the handler
should encourage the dog to sit on command as well. Once
the dog has stopped, the handler gently pushes on the
dog's hindquarters to encourage the sit. Usually, after
this walk, halt, sit procedure has been done a few times,
the dog will begin to sit on his own each time he stops.
Of course, it is important to provide great praise, and
perhaps even a treat, every time the dog does as he is
expected.

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