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Getting a dog to potty trained can be a difficult and frustrating task. Whether your dog is big or small, a puppy or grown, it can still be done. It is just going to take a lot of discipline on both the dog and the owner’s part. Sometimes a dog will pee on his or her owner’s things to show ownership or dominance.

This is very disrespectful and it can often tick the owner off. But do not think this is the end. This behavior can be corrected with the right amount of time and patience. You dog can become pee pad trained.

The first thing you are going to need to do is to go out and get some pee pads. Set them down over all of the places that your dog usually goes to pee at first. Try this out for a few days while taking your dog outside every time he or she goes to pee anywhere else and telling him or her “no” in a very stern voice when he or she trys to pee other places than the pee pads.

Do not be lenient and give into them after they have peed on the floor. Punish them, tell them that they have been a bad boy or girl. After a few days of having the pee pads sitting out, narrow it down to just one or two pee pads in your chosen area of the home. Your pup will have a good idea that these things are for him or her by now. Dogs usually have to pee every 2 hours or so and directly after eating. Be sure to take a note of his or her potty times and remember to show them to the pee pad at these times.

They are probably going to try to resist for the first couple of days or even for some dogs, weeks. Don’t give up on them, be persistent. Persistence is the main ingredient to getting your dog pee pad trained. If your dog does resist you while trying to pee pad train him/her, be sure to put them in a time out or take them directly outside to pee. Once you have gotten them to pee on the pee pad for the first time, be sure to give them praise. Do not give them praise very much for other things while you are pee pad training your dog, you want to make certain that while in training, your dog mainly focuses on the times that he/she is getting praise. Your pet will realize that the pee pad is the way to go when getting treats! Don’t be afraid to reward them every time they use the pee pad. This will be good for them, and help to train them easier.

Dogs need to know that we are the boss and not them. Pee pad training your dog is not impossible. Once you have accomplished this, you will have a happier pet, and you will become a happier owner.

The one thing that every dog needs to know how to do is sit. Teaching a dog to sit is probably the easiest trick in the book. If you own a small puppy, it is going to be even easier. An older dog learning how to sit may take a bit more time, but it is possible. Dogs learn to sit by praise. You must first introduce them to what sitting is.

Gently place your hand over the top part of their bottoms and gently push down. Once you have gotten them into the sitting position, sternly and nicely say “sit”. Now, make sure that they have sat and give them a treat for praise. Love on them for a bit and then move on. Wait a while before doing it again because each time you do it, you will be rewarding them for it. You do not want to do it 5 times in a row and wind up having to give them 5 treats!

Using treats while training your dog to sit while help him or her learn a lot easier without too much confusion. He or she might think, “Okay I get it, so when I sit, I get a treat!” So in the beginning, while you are in training, give your dog a treat each and every time that they sit. Oftentimes at first, when you are training your dog to sit, they will exhibit confusion. This is very normal because sitting will be very new to them. Dogs favor routine, and once sitting becomes a part of their daily routine, it will be something that they truly enjoy doing for their owners when asked.

Young puppies are often the easiest to train when it comes to sitting, but this is only because they are so young. Sitting is a simple and easy command that can be taught to any dog. Older dogs may show a bit more confusion that the younger pups, but this is simply because they have gotten into much more of a routine. Do not think for a second that your older dog cannot learn how to sit because they still can. It is just going to take discipline on both the pet and the owner’s part.

If you are having a seemingly difficult time teaching your dog to sit, you may need to go to your nearest library and rent a book on your particular dog breed. Different dogs have different temperments combined with their own unique personalities. What is normal of one dog breed may not be so true for others. There are many things that will factor into whether your dog has an easy time learning how to sit, but most of it will be up to you.

One of the most important training skills a puppy must be taught in order to be sure that both the dog and the people it comes in contact with will be safe. I puppy with good social skills will be a happier dog, and will make them a more enjoyable pet to have in the home. A puppy with poor social skills is not only miserable, but can also pose a danger to both humans and other pets around it.

The best time to start training your puppy and teaching them social behavior is when they are puppies, so that they do not start to learn bad habits, and the dog is starting with a clean slate. What your puppy will learn in the first months and years will affect the way the puppy acts for the rest of its life.

A dog that has been trained are has learned proper socializing skills will be able to be around humans and other pets without showing signs of aggressive. Instead, they will look and this as a chance to meet new pets and people, and will enjoy the time spent in new surroundings as opposed to stressed, scared, and lashing out at others.

When looking to start teaching your puppy social skills the prime age to start training them is around 12 weeks. It is during this time that social training will be most effective for your puppy, and it is much harder to teach a puppy these skills after the 12 week window is gone.

Top Tips On Teaching Your Puppy Social Skills

Social Training Tips Dos

Whenever you start as social event try to make the experience fun and exciting for the puppy. If they do not enjoy the experience it will be harder to train them.

Invite as many poeple and their pets to come over and play with your new puppy. This will help you dog to be able to be around new people and animals. This will also train them so that they are able to be in new surroundings without getting stressed and becoming aggressive.

Let the dog travel around with you and enjoy going to new places, and seeing new people. By going out to stores, parks, or long walks your puppy has the ability learn wonderful social skills that will help it in the future.

While they are young you need to make sure the dog is use to have a bath, getting its hair brushed out, having nails clipped, etc.

As well as you teaching your dog to obey you through the use of verbal commands, you can also teach them to obey you when you only use hand signals instead. When it does come to you teaching your dog about such commands you will need to use them in conjunction with verbal commands in the beginning. In this article, we look at one of the ways in which dog training hand commands can be accomplished.

Teaching your dog how to obey hand commands is very simple and generally, dogs find it very easy to understand these along with verbal commands. Along with you and your dogs when you start this kind of training you will also need some kind of treat (food is ideal) that you can reward your dog with when they react in the correct way to the signal.

It is crucial when you first start training your dog to react to hand commands rather than spoken ones is that you use the two in conjunction with each other. Also, you need to first decide what signal will represent what spoken command that you want your dog to obey. Only after you have made a decision on each hand command can you then start actually training your dog to respond to them.

In the beginning as you, say each command to your dog you should also very slowly and deliberately show the hand signal as well. You will need to repeat the verbal command and the hand signal several times in order for your dog to understand what it is you would like them to do. Then once they react the first time to you saying the word and doing the hand signal then you can reward them.

As you continually repeat the commands and signals you should very slowly you should start to eliminate the verbal commands. However, you should still use the rewards of food and praise for your dog when they respond to your hand signals only. For a while as you begin to slowly eliminate the verbal commands you should when carrying out the training, use them half of the time, and the other half of the time just hand signals.

After a period of time when they have begun to purely respond to your hand commands then you can start beginning to eliminate the food rewards also. It is crucial that you do not stop providing such treats as soon as they start responding to hand commands, but gradually eliminate them and instead offer your dog praise instead.

When you are going to be teaching your dog to respond to hand commands rather than verbal ones it is a good idea to start of with the most basic commands that you want your dog to respond to. Most owners will start of with the ones we all learn in the beginning with our dogs, which is sit, stay, down and come. Only once you feel that you and your dog are ready should you be moving on to commands that are far more elaborate.

Actually getting advice on the right way dog training hand commands should be done is easy. There are plenty of sites on the internet today that can offer lots of practical advice and tips. Plus there are plenty of books and videos, which can help you with training your dog to respond to such hand signals.

Aggression in a dog is something, which an owner should not tolerate and should be dealt with as soon as the problem arises. However, in order for an owner to find the right kind of dog aggression training they should be using to control this problem they need to understand the kinds of aggression that dogs suffer from.

In this article, we take a look at just what these are. It is important to remember that a dog may not only show just one type of aggression in fact they could show several.

1. Dominance - This kind of aggression will occur in a dog who thinks that they are in fact the alpha member (leader of the pack) and will use this as a way of asserting their dominance over the others in the pack (you and your family). Most commonly, you will find that male dogs and certain dog breeds are likely to suffer from this kind of aggressive behavior more. But in order for you to control the situation, you need to quickly and fairly establish that you and your family are the leaders in the group and they are at the bottom of the pack hierarchy.

2. Fear - This is type of aggression occurs when a dog feels insecure or frightened. They will often react to a disturbance or when being approached by either barking, growling, they may bare their teeth, snap or bite. In some cases, if they feel cornered or threatened they may actually bite. It is important that you do not think that your dog will grow out of this problem, as they will not.

3. Territorial/Over Protective - When a dog suffers from this kind of aggressive behavior if left and the owner chooses to ignore the problem they will become a danger to all those around them and not just to those they see as strangers or predators. This kind of problem will not be one that is a problem for the owner at home, but will also be one that will become a problem when the dog is away from it as well.

4. Possessive - This can make a real Jekyll and Hyde out of your dog, one minute they can loving and playful the next they are baring their teeth or snapping at you. This will normally occur when you approach something that they consider to be theirs. In many cases, a major trigger for this type of aggression is when you approach them when they are eating. If you want to stop this problem, you need to react as soon as you notice it occurring.

5. Punishment - Often this particular type of aggressive behavior will occur in dogs that have been abused by their owners, especially where owners have tried to exert too much dominance over their animal. Normally a dog will not react aggressively towards their owner when being punished, but if an owner punishes the animal too much then over time things can change. One day an owner may suddenly find without any kind of warning their dogs turning on them.

Above we looked at some of the kinds of aggressive behavior that a dog, no matter what age, breed or sex they are can have. However, in order for an owner to know what the right kind of dog aggression training they should be using to control the problem they first need to identify what type of aggressive behavior it is. The internet is a good place to find advice and information on all types of aggressive dog behavior.