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For my case study of SitStayFetch's dog training tips, I will be training my German Shepherd dog, Bear, who has no training experience. For my first experiment, I will be teaching my dog the command: 'come'. This is Bear's main problem right now, he does not come when called and it leads to a lot of frustration. My dog bear loves to play tag with the dog next door. This by itself is not a problem, but it becomes a problem when he plays tag running along the fence inside my garden. So, in order to save my garden, I try and call him to come inside by saying, 'Bear. . . come.. .' but he does not listen to me. He only glances at me long enough to acknowledge I said something and then goes on his merry way doing what he pleases. In frustration from my dog ignoring me, I raise my voice and repeat the come command. Bear will then not pay any attention to anything I say, and will keep running up and down the fence without even looking at me. I then become very annoyed and go grab Bear by the collar and drag him into the house, all the while letting him know how I feel. So I read up on what SitStayFetch teaches about the come command and found out I was going about it all wrong. You see, dogs think differently than humans. Not only does SitStayFetch teach you how to teach your dog a command, they also explain why the command works. What lessons does SitStayFetch teach us about training our dogs to be obedient? The main thing we learn is that dogs learn from positive reinforcement and not negative reinforcement. This means they do not learn that they need to listen better and perform the command better next time to avoid their master yelling at them. They instead learn that the command given means they will get punished and they make a mental note to not listen to that command because they do not want to get punished. So, if we want our dogs to listen to our commands, SitStayFetch teaches us that we need to use positive reinforcement to reward our dogs for listening to the command. By using positive reinforcement, the dogs learns that by listening to the command good things will happen and he will want to do what you say. If we want our dogs to learn the come command, we need to teach him with positive words and not with negative words or actions. To accomplish this, SitStayFetch teaches us that there are some things we need to do in order to get our dog to listen to us. I will address 3 of the tips here that I feel are the most important, or are the ones that helped my dog Bear the most. One: Have some great treats in hand. Some good treats they mention are dog treats, cheese and hot dogs. I use Cheetos and hot dogs, but not dog treats since Bear does not care for them, go figure. Two: Make sure your voice is upbeat and happy when you give your dog the command. Three: Use a long leash so you can reel him in when saying come. Now that SitStayFetch has taught me the correct way to perform the command come, I hooked Bear up to my 15 foot leash, got a small bag of cheetos in my jacket pocket, and went outside to teach him his new command. The results. . . At first Bear did not listen because I had initially taught him that the command come meant that he was in trouble. So, I gave Bear the come command by saying 'Bear. . . come. . .' showed him the cheetos, reeled him into me while saying in a cheerful voice, 'Good Boy Bear. . . Good Come', and then gave him his reward of a couple of cheetos. That peeked his interest and got his tail wagging. I then let him go out and play once again and then called him using the come command. This time something wonderful happened, Bear came anxiously awaiting his great reward. I can not believe how easy it was to teach him this command once I practiced what SitStayFetch tells us to do. So does SitStayFetch's dog obedience training tips work? Bear proved to me that they do indeed work when you apply what they teach you and I am very happy with the results I seen. I have been working with the come command daily with Bear and he now comes when called, even when playing with his dog friend next door. Your dog can also learn to be obedient to your commands when you train him the correct way and SitStayFetch does an excellent job at teaching you how to do that the correct way. Article Source: http://www.articlewheel.com
Discover how you can stop your dog's behavioral problems and start to gain some knowledge on how to get your dog obey your commands. Visit this dog obedience training site to follow us as we conduct a far-reaching detailed analysis on dog training techniques where we experiment with some training methods to see if they can correct problem behaviors in dogs.
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