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Is your dog driving you crazy with his bad behavior? Don’t put it off any longer. It’s time to get down to some serious dog obedience training. This means you need to be consistent and persistent with your training. However, training should always be fun for your dog or it will quickly get bored!

Understand Your Dog Basic Needs

Having a dog is a responsibility. If you don’t satisfy your dog’s basic needs, it shouldn’t be a surprise if you have a badly behaved  or neurotic dog. What are the basic needs? Here are the main ones:

• water and food
• regular exercise
• social interaction with dogs and people
• an environment which stimulates him.

The main principle in dog training is to use positive and negative reinforcement. When your dog does a behavior that is wanted, you should reward him with a treat or affection. The treat or affection must come as soon after the behavior as humanly possible in order for it to be effective.

It’s best to concentrate on positive reinforcement for wanted behaviors rather than negative reinforcement for behaviors you want to stop. This has been found to be a more productive way of training.

Physical punishment is not productive or compassionate way to train dogs and will only lead to a  fearful and neurotic dog. You can say a firm “No” in a growling tone of voice to stop him behaving badly. Perhaps most effective is to ignore your dog when he misbehaves. Dogs want your attention and being ignored is negative reinforcement enough.

You should learn to see your dog as a dog, not a human being. It will help you to do this if you study dog communication and the dynamics of a dog pack. You need to learn what their body language means. They have various ways of communicating: with their tail, head position, ear position, mouth and teeth and vocally with various kinds of barks, growls and whines.

For effective training, you must position yourself as the alpha dog or pack leader. If your dog is the alpha dog, you will be fighting a losing battle to get him to behave as you want. Why would he take notice of one of his pack member? Some pointers to set yourself up as pack leader:
-eat a some food in front of your dog just before you feed him. The pack leader always eats first.
-don’t let him to get on the sofa or bed. The pack leader sleeps on higher ground.
-make sure you go through doors before your dog.

This is an introduction to some important points in obedience training for dogs. I recommend you look into the most systematic of training methods: clicker training for dogs.

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