Comments on: 5 Reasons I Train My Dog https://www.somethingwagging.com/5-reasons-i-train-my-dog/ Helping Your Dog Love The Boat As Much As You Do Sat, 10 Aug 2019 18:39:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: My Audacity | Back Alley Soapbox https://www.somethingwagging.com/5-reasons-i-train-my-dog/#comment-79283 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:02:45 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9638#comment-79283 […] week, Something Wagging This Way Comes wrote these two posts that really got me thinking:  Why I Don’t Train My Dog Better and 5 […]

]]> By: CarolG. https://www.somethingwagging.com/5-reasons-i-train-my-dog/#comment-78985 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 05:24:26 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9638#comment-78985 Training also gives your dog a great way to feel happy and self confident. When my dog gets to practice some of his well learned skills he is happy and eager. It is my job to find more ‘good’ things for him to do. This especially helps if he has been reprimanded at all because I can immediately try to elicit behaviors I want and can reward. Flash has learned it doesn’t have to be the end of the world if he has been told no.

]]> By: Jen https://www.somethingwagging.com/5-reasons-i-train-my-dog/#comment-78956 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:48:29 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9638#comment-78956 Those are pretty much THE five reasons to train! (Well, maybe #6 is to be a show off…I might be guilty of that…)

Great post!

]]> By: Roberta https://www.somethingwagging.com/5-reasons-i-train-my-dog/#comment-78940 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:02:46 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9638#comment-78940 Relationship – it all boils down to this: Honey wouldn’t have a good recall if she didn’t have a good relationship; she wouldn’t use her pad during meal prep (what a GREAT thing for her to do!), etc. A trainer under whom I once studied hunter/jumper riding said the horse and rider are in a partnership, similar to Honey’s relationship.
Training gets our rescue dogs adopted quicker; a great benefit of our prison dog training program. People like polite dogs. I always tell visitors to not let dogs jump on them; they may be OK with it but, as you noted, a child or frail adult could be hurt.
And I like how, on walks, Justus will look back at me, smiling.

]]> By: BZ Dogs https://www.somethingwagging.com/5-reasons-i-train-my-dog/#comment-78871 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 05:31:31 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9638#comment-78871 I used to train faithfully because I thought I should, and then my boy (Beau) died unexpectedly just shy of his 7th birthday, and I was left wondering if it had been worth it for either of us. Now I do photography, which I love, and the boys earn piles of cookies posing for me, which they love. And along the way they learn sit, stay, down, come, and leave it – in addition to all the different “tricks” (wearing things, paws on things, looking at things,…) that go with it. A win-win if you ask me. And when that awful time comes, hopefully in the far distant future, I’ll have thousands of pictures to remind me of all the good time we had.

]]> By: Sue at The Golden Life https://www.somethingwagging.com/5-reasons-i-train-my-dog/#comment-78855 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:23:11 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9638#comment-78855 I don’t really formally train Callie and Shadow any more. I give them refresher classes, in the form of recall games out in the back yard; and I make them wait at the door to the downstairs room (where the back door is). Especially since Callie had her surgery.

Ducky, on the other hand, needed socialization and exercise in the beginning more than formal obedience training. I had worked with her while she was still at the shelter, as had some of the other volunteers, so she knew sit, down, and focus. She didn’t stay for long, but she knew what it meant. The poor dog was so full of anxieties that I had to work on those first. She didn’t even know how to play with other dogs. Thank GOD I found this daycare (thanks to a friend) to help me help her. Now that I’m just about to graduate from my course, I’ll be able to start really working with her to strengthen her focus and real-life skills. In fact, my mentor trainer and I are trading assistance….She had shoulder surgery last week and needs help with her classes at the shelter, and I need some help with Ducky.

]]> By: Sue at The Golden Life https://www.somethingwagging.com/5-reasons-i-train-my-dog/#comment-78845 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:36:07 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9638#comment-78845 In reply to Married with Dawgs.

🙂 ! Me, too!

]]> By: Married with Dawgs https://www.somethingwagging.com/5-reasons-i-train-my-dog/#comment-78819 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:54:14 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9638#comment-78819 You forgot Sanity. 🙂 If I didn’t train my dogs to be relatively well-behaved, I think I would lose all pretenses at sanity. Ha!

]]> By: SUGAR: Golden Woofs https://www.somethingwagging.com/5-reasons-i-train-my-dog/#comment-78800 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:34:00 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9638#comment-78800 Woof! Woof! I was trained in the same reasons you mentioned above. It’s all about ME and not about what my mom or dad wants. Yes we (Golden Retrievers) are easy to train. Mom continues to train me. As a senior dog it helps a lot mentally and mom has been very creative lately. Lots of Golden Woofs, Sugar

]]> By: Sam https://www.somethingwagging.com/5-reasons-i-train-my-dog/#comment-78798 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:27:17 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9638#comment-78798 I train my dogs because it’s fun!

Not to mention that they have a better life as they can be off-leash when it’s appropriate; plus it’s great for building a bond, and trust – especially for Inka.

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