Dog Health Questions: What's the best dog training tip you've ever learned?

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Top 6 Dog Training Mistakes - Are You Making These Mistakes When Dog Training?

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I think a big mistake many people make (I know I used to) is not making training fun. You need to be excited so the dog will be excited. Have lots of energy and make every command sound fun and upbeat.

Obviously you still need to correct if the dog disobeys (assuming the command is already a known one) but learning to put some energy into my training sessions made my dogs respond so much better to me.

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Have to agree with Dalmatians. NILIF really helped my possessive aggressive dog. You'd never guess now that he used to be protective of food and toys.
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Do a Good Job of Dog Training

• In the words of the great Cesar Milan, Be the assertive pack leader. It doesn't matter what you are trying to teach your dogs, you need to be confident, assertive and calm. If you are tentative about being the top dog, then your dogs will never see you as the pack leader. They will continue to do bad behaviors and drive you crazy. Also look on Youtube for videos of Victoria Stillwell. She has really good advice about dog training. The thing that both Cesar and Victoria agree on is that you have to be the Alpha. Good Luck!


• PATIENCE and a lot of love for the pup.... as brenda said...f you can only punish a dog within 10 seconds of the incident happening otherwise the dog has no idea what you're punishing him for.... soooo true.... and i have also learned that Cesar Milan's idea of us being the pack leader is not true in all cases... dogs understand the difference between humans and other dogs...


• It's all about consistency. If it takes you a 100 times everyday for a week to teach it .. it's worth it!
  
  Oh and my trainer told me that if you can only punish a dog within 10 seconds of the incident happening otherwise the dog has no idea what you're punishing him for.


• Never hesitate to praise your dog for exhibiting good behavior.


• i thought i knew it all in dog training until i brought by last pup to obedience class. wow did i learn alot


• NILIF - Nothing in life is free.
  
  Has worked wonders on my dogs.


• Definitely NILIF.