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Dog Training Tips and Tricks You Should Know

Dogs are all individuals with their own particular habits and character quirks. But despite this they all have certain common behaviors. All types of dogs like to sniff around for example, and scent mark territory. And they’ll all bark when excited or alert.

Likewise, dogs have similar behavioral problems. If you doubt this, play a visit to a dog training forum. You’ll see all the “usual suspects” come up time and again – dog barking, aggression, chewing, jumping up and separation anxiety, to name just a few.

This article deals with some of these common issues and provides practical dog training tips on how to address them.

How To Communicate With Your Dog

A good place to start is by understanding how dogs communicate. Accept that dogs can’t understand human language and learn by a process of association and you’re off to a good start.

Verbal commands are, of course, essential to dog training and dogs can learn dozens of voice commands. But this is not to only way to communicate, and you should think about things like clicker training and hand signals.

House Training Basics

Even if you have no interest in dog training at all, the one bit of training you are going to have to do is house training. There are a number of methods that work, and the three most common are crate training, and the paper and supervision methods. Choose a method that best suits your circumstances, but don’t discard the other two as you’ll likely use elements of those as well.

Crate training puppies is a very effective house training method, but when the puppy is outside the crate you’ll probably want to put paper down. And when the pup is away from the paper you’ll need to keep a beady eye on him and react at the first sign of squatting.

Not only is it practical to use all 3 methods, it will also teach the puppy more quickly.

Important Obedience Commands

One of the reasons that dogs are so popular is their ability to learn commands and tricks. In fact, most dogs love learning new things and are usually keen students.

But a common problem for new dog owners is that the simply don’t know where to start. Fortunately, the answer is simple – the first thing a dog should learn is the ‘sit’ command.

When the dog can do this correctly every time, move on to teaching him to stay, and to come to you. Not only are these commands important to obedience, they are also essential to keeping the dog under control in dangerous situations.

How to Deal With Separation Anxiety

A detailed essay on separation anxiety would be beyond the remit of this article, but there are 3 common approaches we can discuss here that will help address this common problem.

A good starting point is to vary your routine, so that the dog no longer sees a predictable pattern of events just before you leave. You can also withhold attention right before you leave and after you return, as this contributes to the dog’s anxiety. As a last point, you can restrict the dog’s access while he’s home alone.

Stop Your Dog Begging

A dog will always repeat a behavior that brings some kind of benefit. So the minute you give in to canine manipulation and feed the dog a tasty treat from your plate you’ve created a monster. The dog will now beg at every opportunity because he may just succeed in bumming another snack.

No matter how pitiful the look, don’t fall for it, and if you find it impossible not to give in, rather send the dog from the room when you’re eating.

Follow the advice in this article and you’ll go a long way towards resolving these problem behaviors.