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Labrador Retriever Dog Training – How Your Dog Thinks and Why Its Vital to Understand

Could your dog do with a dose of Labrador Retriever Dog Training? If you are considering training your new puppy or an out of control older dog, you have much more success if you know a bit about how your Lab thinks.

Any dog that is not trained properly will form bad habits. They are like children who are left undisciplined. All dogs, Labradors included need proper guidance from their master. They look to you for leadership.

It is extremely important for you to take the lead, and to understand why its so important. In a dogs world, there is a hierarchical structure. The Alpha Male, or Top Dog is at the head of this structure. This dog is the biggest, strongest and smartest dog in the pack. The rest are the subordinates. The Alpha Male gets certain privileges such as the best food before the rest of the pack, the best place to sleep and the first in line to produce the offspring.

You, in your dogs eyes are the Alpha Male or Top Dog. If you do not play the part of Top Dog, your dog will assume the position, and will become disobedient, because it believes that you are beneath it in the hierarchical structure. You are not doing your dog any favors by not taking the lead.

All dogs, once they are clear about their hierarchy status, are very happy. Where is that place? That place is underneath everyone who lives in that establishment. This is not cruel, it is necessary. It does not mean the dog is not loved or mistreated, on the contrary. The dog knows its place and is very content.

Eating before your dog is paramount. Remember before I mentioned that the Top Dog eats the best food first, you must eat your meal, before you feed your dog. Never feed a dog from the table, before or during your meal. They will wait patiently until you have finished to get their scraps, not the best piece of steak! Always ask your dog to “sit” before feeding him or her, this is like the dog saying Please.

A dog who knows their place in “the pack” will be a friendly and good-natured dog that feels content taking orders from his or her owner. It’s the same as children, dogs need guidance and when you take full responsibility and control, you will have a well behaved dog.

Could your dog do with a spoonful of obedience training?

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3 month old labrador Retriever Puppy doing tricks

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Crate Training, a Home Within a Home

House training a new puppy can cause a lot of frustration and disappointment with the newfound friend! Here are a few tips that can help with the training and make your new puppy and yourself a little happier in the homecoming…

Coming home

You bring your puppy home for the first time to surprise your wife and kids. You carry little ball of fur to the house, set it down and the kids and wife get really excited! Then the puppy gets excited to! The problem is the puppy gets so excited she starts piddling all over the floor, the kids, and the wife… not a good thing for the first encounters!

So what went wrong? Nothing really, if you had a bladder the size of a thimble you probably piddle when you get excited to! My recommendation would be this: before you bring the puppy into the house, take a puppy to where she is expected to do her business in the first place. Let her sniff around but don’t play with her… this is a place for business not play, she has to learn that this part of the lawn is hers and for a potty breaks only!

When she finds a spot that seems suitable to her and starts to relieve herself, repeat the words or the phrase you want her to associate with going out for a potty break: “Go Pee” or “Potty Time” or whatever phrase you feel most comfortable with. Its best that you make it a short and easily recognizable, using the same inflection every time so that she can easily memorize the phrase and it’s meaning.

When she’s done, THAT is when you make a big fuss over her, shower her with affection, even give her a little treat in you have one. In general just make her feel that she did the right thing!

Now when you take the puppy in the house she’ll be less likely to piddle all over everyone and everything! From here on, the first meeting will be a lot more enjoyable!

A House Within A Home – Crate Training And Its Advantages

Some people see crate training as being inhumane however it is actually comforting for a puppy or dog to have their own private space that they can go to, that they can call their own. This is why crate training is a wise thing to do!

A “crate” in the sense that I’m using it here is actually any container, box or area that is closed off from the rest of the room — that keeps the puppy segregated and still allows her to feel a part of the “action” and thereby feeling a part of the family. So the kitchen, Den or Living room would be a great place for this.

The idea of using crate training as a housebreaking aid is based on the fact that dogs, no matter how old, resist using the place they sleep, as a bathroom. Therefore, the size of the crate or area is very important. It has to give the puppy enough room to stand up, stretch, turn around and generally get comfortable while not being so big as to allow the puppy to use one part of it as a bathroom while sleeping in the other part.

This can be a accomplished by using a large crate or area, something the dog will grow into, and using something to block off a portion of it that the puppy can use and then slowly enlarging the area until such time as he removed the partition altogether when the dog is fully grown. Another method is to simply purchase a smaller, cheaper crate and when she grows out it, purchase a larger cheaper crate. Keep doing this until the dog is fully grown when you buy a large permanent crate for the dog to use.

Make the crate or area comfortable for the dog and providing pads or towels — something soft for her to lie on, as well as a chew toy or some other such toy to keep it occupied.

Keep the door or opening to the great invitingly open at all times except of course when the puppy is inside sleeping or not under your direct supervision. This is done so that the dog will see the crate as an inviting and non-threatening area. Eventually it will wander in and lay down when it has to sleep and be left alone.

Never let the puppy out of its crate to wander aimlessly around the house while not under your supervision! This will invite the puppy to use the house for its bathroom and only reinforce the negative habits that you are trying to break.

About the Author

Don Willson is, 53-years old and living in Richmond, Virginia. Not new to writing, he is often been told (I know everybody gets this) that he should try getting some of his work published.

For more tips and tricks on how to housebreak your dog, check out my website!

Of all the things I’ve lost in life I miss my mind the most!

How to Train Puppies : How to Crate Train Your Puppy

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Dogs And House Breaking

The moment you get your puppy inside your home get started in instructing it, do not delay declaring it’s just come to stay together with us and thus we can begin training it within a few days. You ought to nonetheless, not rush your own puppy, housebreaking might take time and additionally it is good if ones dog requires a little more time to understand as compared with other puppies. Each and so every dog differs from the others and additionally every canine includes its odd style of understanding, hence detect just what exactly motivates your own dog to know housebreaking.

You actually must first go and then pick a certain space you actually feel is good for your dog to eliminate. Once you have picked out the potty spot, be sure that you actually take ones puppy to which place often. Let ones dog recognize that spot and understand it’s supposed to arrive to this place each time. Now you ought to work with a common word each and every time you actually want ones dog to eliminate. You can easily make use of instructions such as ‘do it’, ‘potty here’, ‘hurry up buddy’, and therefore many some other words you actually feel like applying while you want your own pet dog to eliminate. Be sure which you actually work with the identical command each and every time for it to make potty. Each time you take your pup to which location work with the particular order until eventually your own puppy eliminates, after a while your pup will understand the area and consequently the command and even may eliminate much faster while brought to which particular spot.

While you actually tend to be happy that your puppy is listening to ones command and additionally is eliminating in which special area designated by you, begin to praise your own pup and actually reward it together with a few goodies. Express ‘good boy or maybe good girl’ and pat its back, it may keep in mind this particular and so may never produce a error the very next time. While pups are small-scale incidents are generally frequent. It can be possibly not simply because ones dog does not want to go out to of which spot to try and do potty yet just mainly because they can not keep it for long enough like adult dogs. If ones puppy is a month old it can hold only for an hour long, it gradually increases as and consequently when the months increase. Thus, if you dog is in relation to 4 months old, it could keep for just with regards to 4 hours and thus will want to go out to eliminate after every 4 hours. Make certain you take it out to the designated spot after every 4 hours.

Pups will be minor and even need to possibly be fed more regularly than older puppies. 3 to 4 times a day is ideal for puppies to eat, as soon as they eat they would want to eliminate. Take you actually pup outside each and every time to when you feed it also seek to give your own puppy a fixed eating schedule. Whenever your puppy eliminates in the right place, praise it to allow it to be understand it features done things correctly. This will reinforce the teaching and in addition your dog can learn faster.

Seek to maintain a rigid time table in the initial training stages and as a consequence ensure that you stick to it. Fix up timings to take ones dog out for potty, walks and in addition playtime. It’s necessary of which you play with your pup for with regards to 30 minutes every day and in addition take it for lengthy strolls outdoors to acquire a few fresh air and therefore exercise as well. Once the teaching period is done you can realize you actually have a nicely trained dog and then may love its company.

The author has always enjoyed training his dogs and offers some great tips at their new website Dog Housebreaking and even more topical reviews and tips at House Training Older Dog

About the Author

The author has been writing articles and short stories for nearly four years now. During this writing experience he has written on many different topics and enjoys research.

How To Housebreak a Dog

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