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Dog Obedience Training is Necessary
February 9th, 2010 | 
Author: Obedience Training is a very important excersize for both you and your pet. It not only gives the pet owner peace of mind, but also helps to establish a strong bond between you and your pet.
It is best to do dog obedience training after you and your dog have had a chance to bond. Obedience training doesn’t solve all behavior problems, but it is the foundation for solving just about any problem.
Training a dog to obey your commands can be an ongoing and lengthy process depending on the dog, the methods used, and the skill and understanding of both the pet and its owner.
Although dogs love us, and some of them are very smart for their breed, they don’t have the brain capacity of humans. And as much we treat them as our children (yes I’m guilty), we have to tailor our training to a dog and not a person. The first thing to do is to choose one person to do the training, usually the master (or alpha leader in dog speak), this is the person (most probably you) who will train your best friend. If you’re asking why, it’s simply to avoid confusion and help your puppy or dog learn to recognize your commands, inflections, and instructions.
With time, dogs have become an important part of human households, where they are seldom treated as working mates. Unlike people of the 18th century, dog owners of today consider their pets as one of their family members and go out of their way to provide the latter with the best of training, diet, grooming and care.
Your dog provides you with love and companionship, but chances are he also provides you with some unpleasant surprises from time to time-a mess on the carpet or a slobbery pair of slippers, for example. While dogs seem to offer their people love and friendship almost immediately, learning how to live by the rules of a human household does not always come so easily.
Recognize that dogs, no matter how smart for their breed, are not as intelligent as humans. And while multitasking in today’s environment is expected of homosapiens, such is not the case in the dog world. Teach them one thing (thing=command) at a time, otherwise your training session may be confusing and not achieve the results you’re hoping for. Realize that even if you only teach one command at a time, it will very likely require multiple training sessions.
Solving your dog’s behavior problems may take a renewed commitment on your part, but it can be done. And it’s worth it. After all, research shows that most dogs and cats are relinquished to animal shelters-or otherwise given up-because of common behavior problems their families didn’t know how to solve.
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Robert Buford
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Is obedience training really necessary for my puppy?
I think I can do the training myself. I’ve already taught him to sit, lay down, and shake. Is it really worth forking out the additional money? Any experiences?
it doesn’t matter who trains the pup just train it, web search methods, go to library and read lotsa books, just get the job done, we train all of our rotts ourselves.
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own 8 large breed
YESS!
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Kind of… your dog needs to know how to sit, lay down, come, and stay in a public place while there are distractions around. Imagine if you go to the dog park and ask your dog to "come", but he’s never been around so many dogs before! Suddenly all of his training flies out of his brain and all he wants to do is play.
You could just take your dog out in public a lot and work on the training yourself out there. The important thing is to make sure that your dog knows its commands even while there are exciting new sights, smells, and other dogs around. You want to make sure he’ll keep his focus even with new dogs distracting him.
Obedience training is the easiest way to do that, but if you wanted to just take him places and work on his training that’d be fine too.
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if you have done all that then just continue. I think that you will have a very obedient dog.
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what kind of dog ? small dog are fine with that kind of training but a larger breed you have to train a few times daily.
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Is your dog well adjusted to being with other dogs? People? Is he dangerous in any way? If not, and there aren’t any other problems that you cannot solve, no, obedience training is not necessary. Obedience training is mainly for those with uncontrollable, or stubborn dogs or owners who don’t know how/can’t train their own dogs.
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Obedience training is important for more than just teaching your dog basic commands – it gives your pup the chance to be socialized around a variety of other dogs and people, plus it gives you an expert to go to when you need help with any kind of behavioral issue. I strongly recommend you enroll him in puppy classes. They’re usually very cheap.
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If you are using casual training just for home behavior, and you’ve already accomplished this much, unless you have a specific behavior problem, your training should be sufficient.
Are you OK so far on housebreaking and crate training? Those are really necessary behaviors to have an obedient, well behaved dog. You can do those too, IF you know what you’re doing, and don’t mess the dog up by inexperienced training. Good Luck!
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I think that Obedience training will help you in the long run. You will learn some techniques and tips from trainers and you will create a greater bond with your pup.
Can your pup Stay and Come in a distracting situation?
And, can your dog sit and lay down right when you tell him to? You and your pup will learn all that and of course much more….
which I think in the long run, spending additional money to have a well-mannered dog for over 10 years is reasonable!
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In my experience, yes, it is worth the money. Going to classes with your dog helps to socialize the dog, getting it used to other dogs, people and situations.
It also offers distractions you just can’t get working with the dog alone at home. There is nothing like the class all being in a line on down stays while the teacher heels her dog in and out between them… it shows wh has done their homework and who hasn’t!
If you have other friends that have dogs they are training, you can organize your own training sessions, working together if you REALLY don’t want to do classes. But I do recommend classes… they work and they’re FUN!
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shesh ur lucky he can do tat! My poodle failed 2 things of dog school…the only way u can get her to do anything is if you have a cookie in ur hand!
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I agree with Julie that your dog needs to learn to obey you when there are distractions around, but also thinks it important to note that obedience training also provides another valuable aspect: socialization. Its vital that your dog get introduced to many new dogs to realize that they are fun and friendly and won’t get scared of other dogs; a socialized dog is less aggressive and more amenable to any future dogs you may want to add to the family.
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You ‘think’ you do can the training. If you are new at this, the obedience training classes are a good idea.
Your dog needs more than just the sit/stay. Needs exercise, proper leash walking, socialization with other dogs and humans…..
The most important? Assertive pack leadership.
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I think that it is I trained dog at an obiedience class and now my dog behaves really well I would definey recomend doing it.
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I trained my dog at a class and I think that you should.
Group classes offer the chance to socialization your puppy in a safe setting and to practice training with distractions. If you are confident that you can properly socialize your puppy without the benefit of a puppy kindergarten class, then hey, sure, you can train him yourself. I personally do value training classes as another way to socialize my dogs. My puppy is currently in puppy kindergarten, and my two-year-old "puppy" is starting his fourth course this week, because a dog can never have too many positive socialization experiences.
Here’s a great little article that underscores the importance of puppy kindergarten classes for the sake of socialization:
http://dogstardaily.com/training/puppy-classes
But again, if you’re sure you have the means to *thoroughly* and *properly* socialize your puppy without classes, and if you know how to train him to obey with distractions (strangers, dogs, noises), then you don’t need to pay for a class.
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i think you should do the real dog training walk your puppy tire him out
you have to be calm assertive then train him good.
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Then do it yourself. If you run into problems then call a trainer.
Getting a few private lessons, from a good trainer is worth the money though. Just depends on what you are hoping for out of this dog
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If he already knows that much then don’t bother with obedience. It’s really just a thing for untrained dogs.
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I second that YESS!!
Class is invaluable for a few reasons-
You get outside eyes on how you are training.
You get to go outside of your "comfort zone" and train with others.
I love bouncing ideas around class if myself or class mate is stuck on a problem. (I do positive style clicker training, so the box is pretty infinite on solutions,
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SOCIALIZATION- can’t stress that enough. (use it or lose it, kind of thing).
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As far as forking over money, see if they will let you audit a class (most places will, if they are worth anything), and see if you would feel comfortable with your dog there. Find out what kind of credentials they have. Do they show their dogs (ob or sports), and if they do, do they have any titles?
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Good start, but the basic commands are sit, stay, come, down, heel. You can do it yourself if you have the time and patience. Sounds like you are 1/2 way there. I’d work on the rest and if you are having problems then go sign up for a basic obedience class for a few weeks.
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