General Dog Training Tips For You

Bringing a new dog or puppy home and starting dog training is a real challenge for anyone. But it is especially true for a new owner. The amount of time that will be required to get your pup trained and housebroken will vary from dog to dog,  breed to breed and owner to owner. There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to training a dog.

What is important is the amount of effort you are willing to put forth and what kind of experience you and your dog have. If training is a fun and positive experience for both of you, you can expect better results much quicker.

Communicating to your dog what you are expecting from him in a firm, direct and positive manner is going to avoid obedience problems later on down the road. Rewarding your dog in a positive manner will also help with his understanding of what you wish.

Knowing where to start is just the beginning. Here are some general dog training tips that you can use.

Restrict Movement

Just being aware of your new dog's movements in and around your house is going to make correcting bad behavior easier. But unfortunately, life doesn't always allow for constant surveillance of your little one. That is why you will need to restrict his access to areas that he could potentially cause damage or hurt himself.

If you plan on only being gone for a short time, a crate may be a good option as he will be confined and out of trouble. For longer periods of time, you may want to consider restricting your pup to certain rooms like a utility room or the garage. Just make sure that where ever you leave him, that there aren't things that he could destroy or worse yet hurt himself on.

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Regular Meal Times

You like your meals on time, well so do dogs. Having a regular routine when it comes to feeding will not only help with obedience and discipline, but it will help you to know when his "input" is going to come "out".

Don't just lay the food down and leave. Let him eat his fill and then pick up whatever is left over after about 15 to 20 minutes have passed. This teaches your pup to eat when there is food and to do so on your schedule not his. Just remember that puppies will need to "go" about a half hour after eating. Make sure that you take that into account when scheduling your time.

Positive Reinforcement For Positive Training

While catching your dog in the act when he is being bad can be a very effective way of modifying his behavior, giving him lots of praise when he does it right is even more effective. Giving actual treats, verbal or physical praise go a long way towards getting your pup to do what you want him to do.

Stay With Him

While standing outside in the cold pouring rain may not be your idea of a fun time, it is important when you have a puppy that you stay close by and walk with him to the appropriate potty spot. At least until he has reached three to four months of age. By doing so, you are letting him know what is expected from him when he has to go potty. It's like this, if you don't want to stand out there in the rain, he won't either and he won't think twice about using your new carpeting for his personal bathroom!

Go To The Same Place

Always using the same potty spot rather than changing things up is the best idea. That way he will know that where he goes is the appropriate place. And make sure that you pick up the mess. He doesn't like a dirty bathroom any more than you do.

Use Accidents To Your Advantage

You can use accidents to your advantage when training your dog. Because a dog's urine contains ammonia. That smell marks an area where he has gone potty. He uses that marker to locate where to go in the future.

What you can do is play with and feed your dog in the area that he has pottied. This communicates to him that this place is not for going potty, but for other things. In short he won't poop where he eats.

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Keeping Your Cool

This is easy to say but hard to do. Sometimes you just want to scream. But losing your patience when training your dog will not get you what you want which is a well trained pup. It will have the opposite result and will confuse him.

Having patience during dog training will build your pup's confidence and trust in you. Keeping your cool may be hard, but will lead ultimately to a well behaved dog that you can truly be proud of.

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