Dog Health Questions: Dog training without cooperation?

How do you train a dog when you live with people that won't cooperate? Is it a lost cause? I could try to talk them into helping, but I also want to prepare if I'm unsuccessful in that regard. Also, I have never trained a dog therefore I have no idea what I'm doing.

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In your situation, you can still personally train your dog by allotting a big time of your day for a week or more to give the consistent training the dog would need to learn. Once the dog has learned basic training and obedience, teaching him new tricks or additional training will be much easier and can be done on a short daily basis.

I recommend that you watch my 4 minute dog video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncUgmH4HZ… which will give you important tips to consider that you can use for training your dog.

Training is very easy and can be fun as it keeps the dog happy and enthusiastic to learn as his owner or what he considers as his leader is spending regular bonding time with him through the training.

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• If the people you live with aren't on board with your training and rules for this dog, the dog will have a hard time learning.
  When I lived with my parents, my dogs were always brats! I'm a dog trainer even! My parents would let the dogs get away with everything. Even stealing food off their plates. Rolls eyes.
  
  But yeah, you will have problems. Training needs to be consistent and if it's not, the dog will get confused about what he's supposed to do.


• Who won't cooperate? The dog or the people? The best way to train a dog (especially if you have no experience in this) is to take your dog to obedience school. You learn how to train the dog and you get a better behaved cooperative dog and you can pass this knowledge on to the other people in the family. Once family members see the dog can sit and stay and not jump on them, they'll help out too.


• I know you can do it! It takes a lot of work and work but you can do it. If you are trying to potty train your dog then you need to take him outside every half hour or so, so that it gets used to going outside. You also need to take it out everytime after it eats or dinks something. You could also tie a bell by the door that you will be taking it out and teach it to ring it everytime it needs to go out.
  
  Hope this helps
  
  mike


• No it doesn't. Training needs to be consistent. If everyone who comes into contact with the dog is not consistent the training fails. I'm a trainer and I see it all the time. That's why I encourage anyone who has trouble to bring the whole family to a training class.


• get a book and a professional trainer
  but it is going to be very hard if rest of family doesn't follow rules.
  sounds like you shouldn't get a dog