An Intro To Training Dog Tricks With Food, Praise Or Toys
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Training a dog to do tricks can be an excellent way for dog owners to spend quality time with their dog, and at the same time building a top notch relationship with him. Training a do to do tricks is extremely simple once you understand the fundamental concepts of dog training. In this post, I’m going to talk about them in details in hope to help others who might be attempting to find this information.
1. Dogs learn in the instant.
Humans ponder and reflect on previous experiences to do things better and more efficiently. Unfortunately dogs do not learn this way; they learn all about it in the moment. This suggests that if you're going to reward or punish a dog for anything, it must be while he does it.
Let us take training a dog to roll over as an example. You can wish and hope that your dog thinks about rolling over for days, but your dog isn’t going to do it unless there are some things in it for him. The way to teach a dog to roll over is by giving him something that he likes straight after rolling over. So if you were to give your dog a treat each time he roll over, he will be able to learn fast that rolling over is what earns him the treats!
2. Dogs are inspired by 3 things.
As much as your dog loves you, he will only do things for three different things, praise, food or toys. Praising your dog can be physically touching and petting your dog together with great vocal support on your part. I don't think that I have to tell you about treats, but most dogs are highly inspired by food and treats due to highly survival instincts. Some dogs also love toys very much! Some breeds are way more active than others so a tug toy or a squeaky toy can be very rewarding for some dogs.
Which one of those 3 motivators is the strongest with your dog? Customarily dogs will value one of every one of the three motivators more than the other 2. There is nothing screwed up with your dog valuing one over the others; it just means this is what you need to use to coach your dog to do tricks.
3. Tricks are endless.
The one secret about tricks is that there are endless amounts of tricks you can train. There is always a harder and more exciting trick to coach your dog. When you're only starting coaching your dog to give you a high 5 is a great learning experience and can be quite challenging! But when you have mastered these tricks, you can move on to much more complicated tricks like hopping over obstacles, announcing requests or even jumping rope. Training a dog new tricks can be an enjoyable time for trainers.
Jean Cote is a Professional Dog Trainer who enjoys training his dog tricks and also to push the advantages of daily training on his dog blog.
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Filed under: General Dogs Discussion
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