Dog Health Questions: Dog training question?

is it possible to train an adult dog??.. like really an adult dog... lik 4 years??...

Dog Training - Secrets For Training Your Dog

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You can train any dog, at any age! If you honestly think that age has that much of an effect on dogs then you really should do some research.

It would be like saying that once we hit 20 or 30 we stop learning, when we never do!!! It just takes a little longer and the same applies to dogs!

You generally get more productive results from young dogs as they learn much quicker but you can still train an adult dog! You just need more patience and to persevere more. You mustn't give up on them but give them time and they will learn.

If you do training with your dog regularly then it also keeps their brains active, meaning that they are likely to slowly become more responsive to training and pick things up quicker.

Hope this helps.

Basic Dog Training - Timing And Body Language

• Yes, in fact in many cases it's easier because the dog has hopefully learned how to learn from its life experiences. I've had many older dogs in my training classes over the years. They have done well. The oldest was an 11 year old siberian husky that belonged to a 10 year old boy in 4H. They both took high in trial at our fair one year. Neither the dog or the child had, had any formal training.


• Yes, you sure can. Over the many years of teaching dog obedience classes there has been a lot of older dogs in classes. All of them do really well.
  We have had many people that are handy-capped in wheel chairs that bring in their older dogs to be trained. When the 8 week class is finished both dog and owner leave with a lot of knowledge and are both much happier.
  Older dogs have had a lot more of life's experiences and are calmer then a puppy that is full of all that happy energy.
  
  4 years is still a young dog ready to learn.
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• Yes definitely! I trained a five year old dog and he learned alot quicker than my puppy! It will take alot of patience and commitment but just stick to it. Some habits might be hard to change i.e toilet and eating habits but you can always work on them too. Start with basics i.e sit, lie down, hand shake, rollover etc. The more you put in the more you'll get out. if it don't seem like its working at first keep trying, believe me he'll get it soon. Nothings impossible, just give it a go!


• Absolutely. Dogs can be trained at any age.


• Ya its defiantly possible! you might need to take more time to teach it, but the dog should learn it