A Dog Trainers Secrets Of Puppy Toilet Training

January 3, 2009 by darlenen
Filed under: Dog Training

If you’re considering some form of training program for your dog, you need to focus on what you want to achieve, rather than what you don’t want. When you begin each training session, think clearly of how you want your dog to react, and hold that image through the session. Never give a second thought to what it is that you don’t want to happen.

If you’re not sure what you want, how are you going to get it? This applies to pretty much everything we do every day of our lives, particularly when it comes to basic dog house training as well

It’s very easy to fall into the trap of concentrating on things that we don’t want. And it seems to be a wide spread phenomenon with dog training too. We don’t want our dog to pee in the house, or chew our shoes, or ignore us when we tell him what to do, or howl like a wolf when older members of the family come to the house.

Contemplate this for a minute. Suppose you’re about to adopt a puppy. Are you actually considering spending the next eight to fifteen years chasing your dog telling him off for things you didn’t want him to do? Do you agree it’s a better approach to channel your dog towards acceptable behavior from the start?

So rather than worrying about, “I really do not want the dog to chew the furniture,” try, “I want my dog to chew his toys.” Better than, “I hate it when the dog harasses and jumps up on people who visit the house,” what about, “It would be nice for the dog to sit nicely and welcome visitors.”

Simply by wording your aims in a positive manner, you’ll know exactly what is you are aiming for. What better way to start your training program.

Reward Good Behavior

One of the best things to happen in house train puppy in the past few years is the shift from emphasizing correction, or penalizing mistakes, and moving towards rewarding good behavior.

The practice of rewarding your dog’s good behavior is a smart one, especially for potty training tricks. One of the critical reasons for this is that whenever you scald you dog for making a mistake, the results may be irreversible. Punishment can make a dog feel threatened when she might respond with aggression to being overly punished. Other dogs shut down. They simply lose their bounce and energy. Some may simply curl up and shy away all the time.

Using rewards training methods also makes you feel good. Heaping praise and treats on your dog gives a powerful sense of achievement.

But the icing on the cake is that rewards based dog behavior training works a treat. The main reason being that rewards of this nature help to stimulate and build acceptable behavior. As soon as she discovers that rewards come for a particular action of behavior, your dog is more likely to exhibit that behavior again in the future. By learning how to apply that simple rule, you can use rewards to reach virtually any training goal.

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