Comments on: 10 Top Dog Training Tips You Can Use Every Day

By: Pup links! « Doggerel

Pup links! « Doggerel — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:29:15 +0000

[…] 10 Top Dog Training Tips You Can Use Every Day. Great, practical reminders from Pamela to improve our day-to-day training regimens. I particularly liked her reminders to incorporate training elements (treats, rewards, other motivators) around the house, so you can’t help but train throughout the day. (Something Wagging This Way Comes) […]

By: Donna and the Dogs

Donna and the Dogs — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:37:16 +0000

Great list of ways to make daily training easier. As far as this, “if you pay no mind to the dog dancing around your ankles while you’re making dinner but reward the dog who is sitting still out-of-the-way, you’ll have a very well-behaved dog in no time.” I think that is a wonderful way to use two dogs to help train one another – which seems to be something you have been getting very skilled in since you started fostering Cherie. 🙂

By: Roberta

Roberta — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:10:38 +0000

Super post! Very good, Honey, you look wonderful in that dog bed. I have several new Beagles and was just thinking I need to train them to a mat so I can safely work and not worry about them being around, oh, say, computer cords, etc. I also train in a group – I’ll just have kibble in my hand and as each dog gives me a sit, they are rewarded – butt must hit the ground. This helps me get in small training sessions because yes, my two puppies have attentions spans of a gnat but they are sitting and it helps the other dogs realize, oh, not every treat is for me.
How to safely put a jar in every room….

By: Pup Fan

Pup Fan — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:12:59 +0000

Awesome ideas. I need to be better about incorporating training more regularly throughout the day, for sure.

Also, love the captions. 🙂

By: Kristine

Kristine — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:26:11 +0000

Yep, yep, training is a 24/7 thing in our house. I try to see every moment I can as a training opportunity. The cat is on the floor playing with his toy? Shiva gets rewarded for looking at me instead of bugging him. A dog barks outside and Shiva stays quiet? She gets rewarded. I do it so much now that my hand just reaches for the treats on intinct!

By: Molly The Wally

Molly The Wally — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:02:53 +0000

Great post Pamela. Have a wonderful Wednesday.
Best wishes Molly

By: Colby

Colby — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:18:43 +0000

I love the picture of Honey in the little Petdreams bed! Treats in every room is a great idea. This just reminded me of a moment last weekend: I was at a party and there was a bag of chicken jerky treats and I saw a man offer one to his daughter. She refused then I witnessed him put it in his mouth and start taking a bite right before someone told him it was a dog treat. Bummer I wanted to see if he thought it was any good.

Sorry back to training…when we first start working with our puppies at around 7 weeks we tell our puppy raisers to keep training sessions short because young pups have the attention span of a gnat. A good way to train your pup is to work on basic obedience skills during commercial breaks. Your training sessions will only last about 2-3 minutes which will keep your pup interested. Of course if you’re working with an older dog you can work on obedience for much longer periods of time.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:49:03 +0000

What a fantastic list!

I do “need” to teach Elka more tricks. She enjoys it, and I like expanding her repertoire for show-off time!

By: melF

melF — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:43:46 +0000

Really, really great advice Pamela. I often will mix training in with making breakfast in the morning. It’s how Jasper learned turn, bow, and through. It’s how Lady and Daisy learned sit, down, stand and watch me. Just recently I found my clicker so I have been using it outside with the dogs. Just taught Jasper the beginnings of crawl tonight!

Like Carrie, we work for our treats here.

By: houndstooth

houndstooth — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:00:32 +0000

We make it into games. A lot of training happens here at dinner time and before bed treat time, too! Nobody gets something for free here, it has to be worked for. :p