Dog Health Questions: Dog section - I am curious... Anyone else agree?

People come on here all the time and ask questions and are so aggregated about their dogs. Training can be so time consuming and frustrating. But doesn't anyone else get that warm tingly feeling when you've been working on something and your dog FINALLY gets it? Is it not SO rewarding?
Personally I get such a sense of pride and accomplishment, even if it's not consistent yet.
Does anyone agree?

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Absolutely agree!!

My current very muscular male Dobermann was a devil for forging ahead on walks & had been clearly taught the command "heel". I purchased a prong collar, my Dobermann equated any kind of collar with FUN, I gave the "heel" command & as usual he forged ahead. The command was immediately enforced by a quick pull {pressure not pain} on the prong & he was FINALLY motivated to walk to heel.

He now walks calmly to heel on a flat collar.

Each dog is different & sometimes it takes time to find the right tool & training method for the dog.....but when you do & it clicks for the dog, it is *really* rewarding!!

Using Reward Based Dog Training

• I do believe my most exciting recent accomplishment with any of my dogs is with my Pit. We got her from a rescue at 3 months and she had no training at all.
  
  She was horrible when it came to using teeth on flesh. (Play biting).
  
  I had been working very hard to get this under control because it is not a good habit for any dog to have.
  
  After trying many different techniques and commands the one she finally understood did it.
  
  I was so excited and happy. She has not lost that and is allowed to kiss but those teeth she knows stay off people.
  
  Wonderful feeling!!!!!!


• not really.
  i enjoy when my dog catches on to a new behavior i'm training, but since i raise them from pups, everything is so gradual, there's not much to notice.
  it's not like turning around a rescue dog or anything.
  
  i am so done with mentally scarred, physically imperfect dogs.
  at least for now anyway.


• My dog loves to train. She loves the Challenge and she loves the reward. I don't understand why people are so hopeless and helpless in their own lives; there is so much information about dog training that there is no excuse to neglect a dog by not teaching it how to behave well enough to be able to live with it safely and for the dog to be safe in our world (by not "escaping or eating stuff that will kill it). I am so proud of my dog and our relationship.


• I truly agree with you. I have been working so hard, seven days a week, to get my little house dog to walk on a leash without wanting to stop and sniff everything. Finally, (after watching Caesar Milan), I bought a small choke chain. Although my little pooch runs and hides under the bed, she is doing really well. I am now extending our walks, a little at a time each day. I am so proud of her and myself for not giving up!


• Oh yes, I love training, spent a few hours in the basement today working on some balance skills and waving with her right paw (she already knows her left paw) and skateboarding. Tomorrow I'll be getting together with a friend and working some agility skills. And next week I'm off to three days of agility camp!


• I know exactly what you mean! The sense of satisfaction is tremendous when you see that spark of understanding in your dog's eyes, and you know he understands you!


• I use marker training a lot so I pretty much leave it up to my dog to figure out what I want, when they have that "Eureka!!!" moment it's HUGE. Gotta love it.


• Yes I get that feeling too. I love it when it finally "clicks"!


• Oh yeah, definitely.


• It makes my day! I'll never forget the time my first dog "sat" for the first time. :)


• Yes I agree!


• Yes of course! I feel like i have accomplished something for the day, and so did my dog. It makes us both feel good. :)