Positive Reinforcement Training for Your Dog in Easy Steps
There is no doubt about the importance of training your dog well, especially if you are looking for a long lasting and healthy relationship with the pet living in your house. This means that the basic rules must be lived by and training your dog to do certain things is important. More important however is the way you go about training your dog.
Dogs are very intelligent and have great ability to learn. They are also very sensitive, especially when it comes to the attention given to them by their caregivers. Yelling continuously at your dog because of his behavior is a way to ensure he will end up afraid of you. If you want to establish a loving relationship with your dog it is important that your dog trusts you.
Using positive reinforcement will not only establish a relationship of trust and bonding, it will also make all training more fun. If your dog picks up on the fun he will start doing his best to even please you more, making the training easier and faster.
Training your dog with positive reinforcement means that instead of punishing your dog when he does something wrong, you shower your dog with love and affection when he does something right.
Dogs perceive the lack of attention as a punishment in itself so whenever something does go wrong, just dont react to it. During training there are a lot of things that could go wrong, so instead of yelling or punishing your dog, you just dont pay attention to that mistake.
But when you see your dog go to the bathroom where hes supposed to, then shower him with love and affection. He will soon learn that doing his business outside pleases you and he will go out of his way to make it outside whenever possible.
When using the positive reinforcement technique it is important to set your dog up for success so there is going to be plenty of praise.
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