Debi's Dog Training Tips

The very first thing about dog training is to treat your dog as you would a child. Establish the boundaries and be sure they are known to your dog by visual and verbal contact. Each individual dog has his own personality. Some may be aggressive, shy, very slow to react, etc. just as we are different, so are they.

Some dogs are crate trained, which they get accustomed to very quickly. When they are let out of the crate they are in dire need of exercise. This is one way in which you may find unruly behavior, nothing that exercise can't cure. Leave plenty of toys around to activate his mind when he is left alone. As soon as you arrive home, give him undivided attention for a few minutes. Let him know he is a good dog, and that he was missed. You will find that lots of activity will calm him down considerably.

Teach him hand langauage as well as verbal. When he is out, he may not want to listen to you. He sees other activity that is of much more interest to him then to listen to commands. Make the hand signal very prominent in his training techniques, and you will notice that he abides to them more often then voice commands.