Dog Obedience Training For Your Pet Dog

Well, It’s time for my annual post on heat stroke and your dog. This year, instead of all of my anecdotes and whatnot I’m going to post an email I received this morning from a favorite client of mine. Read this and then do what’s right and don’t run your dog in the heat of the day!

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I only send this to you because I thought you might want a sobering story to remind all of your clients about the dangers of heatstroke.

Tuesday night I was with my trail running group in the greenbelt, and near the end of the run came across some guys carrying their great dane out, on a towel.
Heatstroke. I stopped running and helped them (and two cops) carry this dog out. Maybe a miracle happened and the dog survived, but during the 15 minutes I carried one end of the towel the dog went from very quiet to eyes wide open / tongue lodged out of the side of its mouth. As a dog lover, it is mighty hard to watch a young healthy dog die in front of your eyes.

I’m not an expert, but I know the heat is a killer. Dogs can’t sweat – when in doubt keep your dog’s time in the heat as short as possible.

db

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If that won’t make you think twice about dogs and heat I don’t know what will.

Be safe and keep you pups cool.

Steve Haynes
Austin dog trainer
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Had a strange meeting with a client today. Their dog who is now over a year old and who I trained initially has developed a habit that his family thinks is unsettling.

It seems that the pup spends most of the day with the mom of the house, and while she is a great lady and a very dedicated dog trainer she is a bit of a perfectionist. Well, when the dad of the house comes home the pup goes nuts and wants to spend all the time with him. This, as you can imagine with a bit of a perfect mother, was unsettling.

Their question to me was “how do we make the dog like me [the husband] less and like her [the mom] more??” Simple actually. As with many things in life, familiarity breeds contempt. I told them to switch roles for a few days and let the dad do the walking, training, grooming, feeding… and let the mom do the come home and play thing. It should be an interesting experiment.

Now, while nothing in dog training is absolutely certain, I’ll bet a heavy wager that by the end of the week the pup will be following the mom around going “play with me, play with me, play with me” at every opportunity.

Hopefully, problem/issue solved

Many days I spend my time running between clients in the car and saying “sit”, ‘Down’, ‘come’ over and over…. all day. It’s not a bad way to spend a day, in the company of dogs and their people devoted to them, but it’s nice to once and a while get to work with a dog that will actually a have a job that it has to do. Particularly, an important job. Yesterday was one of those days.

Dr. Gordon, a psychiatrist at Ft. Hood military base here in Texas is going to be taking his dog Lady to work with him. Dr. Gordon works with returning soldiers with PTSD and he’s found that having a dog in the room helps everyone deal with the difficult conversations and situations. That’s good for the people for sure, but that’s only half the story.

Lady, the dog, was found abandoned in a ditched car in the parking lot of the local hospital. No one knows how long she was locked in the car or anything at all about her history. All we do know is that Dr. Gordon rescued her and has been training with her since she landed with him. It’s a good match, probably the best match I’ve seen in a while.

So, long story short, Lady passed her Canine Good Citizen test yesterday and is now cleared by the Ft. Hood staff to accompany Dr. Gordon to the hospital and on all of his rounds with clients anywhere on the base. A true working dog!

Needless to say, I was pretty proud of both of them and I’m not shy to say that I had a tear in my eye when they walked away with their CGC certificate to head straight back to Ft. Hood to a group session with the soldiers.

Steve,

The best compliment I can give you is how many people meet Gunther and say (right away): “Oh, I can tell this is a Fidelio Dog….”

Marty J. S.

Little puppies are usually incapable of regulating their bladder and bowels for too long. It’s a issue of neurological immaturity not defiance when a young pup has an accident. Housebreaking a new puppy can be a difficult activity as anyone who’s done it before appreciates. It involves a great deal of perseverance as well as motivation.

If a young pup has an accident it’s a breakdown on the owner’s house breaking plan not your new puppy. One particular book I read said when your dog has an accident you should roll up a newspaper and say BAD DOG while hitting yourself over the head! Here are some tips for potty training your dog.

Bear in mind you pup probably will have to urinate 15-30 minute following consuming water. Don’t free feed your puppy. Offer his food two times a day for 10 minutes then put it up. Your puppy will need to poo 15 minutes to a half hour after eating. By controlling the time period he feeds you’ll have a better notion of when you should take him out.

Keep in mind your pup will need to pee right after any kind of play period or exercise. Your pup will also need to urinate every couple of hours on top of the previously mentioned. Pay attention to the signals of sniffing and circling.

When you puppy makes has an accident and you don’t actually catch him in the act just clean it up making use of a dog deodorizer and don’t correct your dog. Dogs have very short attention spans. If you don’t catch them in the act they’ll have no clue the reason why you’re angry.

Basically little dogs will need to go a whole lot! One technique you can try is to hang a bell on the door. Each time you go out ring the bell and utilize your signal word such as “let’s go do business.” The dog will connect the bell with going out to do his “business.” Next put peanut butter on the bell and get the dog to ring it each time. Before you realize it your dog will be ringing a bell to express to you he needs to go!

Use the same signal word every time you want your puppy to go such as “go potty.” You can use any term you would like as a cue but be consistent. Also select a place in your yard or home where the dog is going to do his business and take him to this same place each and every time.

An additional strategy which I’ve found successful would be to tether the puppy to you with a short leash. Just take the dog with you anywhere you’re going. You’ll have the ability to watch his cue he needs to go far better this way.

My puppy doesn’t enjoy his crate but is very happy to be tethered to me all day. Your dog should not have too much freedom in the house. He ought to be inside a dog crate or on a leash continually. It is extremely hard to house train a puppy when you don’t do this.

Indoor dog potty training requires real dedication. It can be quite frustrating. Just remember your pet is learning a brand new ability and be patient. If you put in the time the result will be a dependably house trained pet dog!

Bren Pappillion’s loves diminutive dogs. As the owner of several diminutive dogs herself her site about diminutive dog care is a work of love. Check out her diminutive dogs products review page on house training aides for the diminutive dog.

When a dog trainer (like me) starts looking for a puppy, I tend to start looking for English Cocker puppies.

This is a lovely ECS at 4 weeks old. Oh my.

Dog house training can seem like one of the hardest things to do when you are first starting out. Especially with puppies, you might think you will never get them potty trained. However, with a few easy tips, you can teach your dog how to use the potty outside and keep your carpet clean and dry.

When you first begin house training your puppy, you should use one simple command word that means “go potty”. You can use the word “outside” or the word “tee-tee”. By using the same command word over and over, your dog will learn its meaning much easier and will be able to understand what you are trying to get him to comprehend.

Make an effort to remember that not every dog are the same. Only a few dogs will potty train exactly the same. A few dogs are more uncooperative than others. The important thing in dog house training is patience. You must understand that it’s going to take a couple of weeks to find your puppy trained to go outside. Even though some puppies learn within a day or two, same cannot be expected of each and every new pet.

One more invaluable suggestion that you can use should be to crate train your dog. Since pet dogs don’t like to soil the place where they sleep, they’ll learn how to maintain it until the appropriate time. In case you keep them in the crate while you’re in the office, they are going to quickly learn how to utilize the bathroom outside the crate. Do not be stunned, though, if your doggy is indeed excited to see you and get outside the crate that they can pee close to the kitchen floor.

Training certainly includes several difficulties nevertheless understanding the information regarding breed of dogs and observing their daily routine could increase the speed of the training method and also have them do their business in the specified place.

Learn more about Dog Housebreaking. Stop by Erica Robbins’s site where you can find out all about potty training puppies and what it can do for you.

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Sometimes we dog trainers use this saying amongst ourselves to describe a predicament a certain client is in. We’ll say “It’s to much dog for him/her” Which really means that the dog is the equivalent of giving your 87 year old grandmother a Ferrari to drive to the market on Thursdays.

Often times this “to much dog situation” involves much care and attention from the trainer and much destroyed furniture, toys, house siding…on the part of the owner.

One of my most recent favorite Near “to much dog” stories involves this dog Ranger. Ranger came from a very high end breeding program that breeds for serious working dogs. He is a VERY high quality dog with excellent intelligence, maybe to much. Ranger’s owner is a previous client of mine and a very fine lady. She’s had Shepherds before so she knew what to expect. Well, she almost knew what to expect. This pup needed TONS of exercise both mental and physical and he was a bear to keep up with. So, while I can say he’s a handful and got near “to much dog”, his owner stepped up and managed to keep him at the ” all the dog I can handle” level.

So, as a tribute to this owner and Ranger, I took some photos of him today to show what a great dog he’s become. Kudos to Patti and Ranger for getting over the hump and moving on out into the world of fantastic companionship.

Sometimes we dog trainers use this saying amongst ourselves to describe a predicament a certain client is in. We’ll say “It’s too much dog for him/her” Which really means that the dog is the equivalent of giving your 87 year old grandmother a Ferrari to drive to the market on Thursdays.

Often times this “too much dog situation” involves much care and attention from the trainer and much destroyed furniture, toys, house siding…on the part of the owner.

One of my most recent favorite Near “too much dog” stories involves this dog Ranger. Ranger came from a very high end breeding program that breeds for serious working dogs. He is a VERY high quality dog with excellent intelligence, maybe to much. Ranger’s owner is a previous client of mine and a very fine lady. She’s had Shepherds before so she knew what to expect. Well, she almost knew what to expect. This pup needed TONS of exercise both mental and physical and he was a bear to keep up with. So, while I can say he’s a handful and got near “to much dog”, his owner stepped up and managed to keep him at the ” all the dog I can handle” level.

So, as a tribute to this owner and Ranger, I took some photos of him today to show what a great dog he’s become. Kudos to Patti and Ranger for getting over the hump and moving on out into the world of fantastic companionship.