The dog is your friend, but in order for it to be a competent and clever friend, being with you in a house or apartment, on a country walk or in the garden, it is required to teach the dog to carry out your commands, to instill in your pet some useful skills. To communicate with a dog in ordinary life, it is quite possible to master the general principles of training with it.
These skills include:
- walking the dog next to its owner;
- Execution of your team "To me" and return to the starting position;
- execution of the command at a distance: "To lie", "To sit", "Place", "To stand";
- delivery of the item while executing the command "Aport" and returning it to the owner with the command "Dai".
- team "Fu", according to which the dog must stop any actions.
Before starting the training, you must teach the dog to respond to the nickname, calmly allow her to button up on her collar, do not kick at the time of fastening the leash.
Prepare the following items necessary for classes:
- soft collar;
- muzzle;
- a strict collar (for dogs of large breeds);
- short leash up to two meters;
- long lead up to eight meters;
- a stick in the form of a dumbbell, a ball, any favorite toy of a dog;
- A small rug that will serve as a designation of the place.
And now let's start consideration of such an important issue as how to teach a dog to execute the commands that you give to it.
Teach the dog to execute the command "Near".
Hearing the command, the dog should start moving next to the owner, and, straight, and turning in different directions, and changing the speed of movement, and stop as soon as you stop. We practice this skill in this way. We take the dog on a short leash, holding it with his left hand near the collar, and holding his free hand with his right hand. The dog should be near your left foot. Saying the command "Near", start the movement, allowing the dog to move away from you a little forward, backward, shifting to the sides.
At the moment when the dog is ahead of you, you must strictly say "Near!" And tear the leash back so that the dog is next to your foot. After making sure that the dog understood you correctly, stroke with your left hand, give a treat and say "Okay, close".
Check for mastering the dog of this command is this: wait until the dog again goes away somewhere and say "Near", without pulling him off with a leash. Once the dog stands at your left foot, you can be sure that the skill is obtained by it.
After that, we complicate the task by commanding the pet "Near" when changing the tempo of the movement, turning, starting and stopping the run. Having fixed these skills, repeat exercises, having lowered the leash to the ground and even unfastening it. The contrasting ways of learning are good. At first the menacing command "Near", and with good performance of it - affectionately approve the pet, pat it and encourage it with delicacy.
Let's move on to training the "To Me" team.
This command does not need to be tied to some unpleasant circumstances for the dog in order not to develop fear or fear in her.
Let's say your dog was running around freely, and at that moment you commanded him "To me." Do not need to immediately, as soon as he runs up, to fasten his leash, but on the contrary, you should give him a treat, pat and let go for a walk further. At the first stages of training it is not recommended to apply punishment to dogs, if it does not immediately begin to carry out your commands.
To practice the command "To me" lead the dog on a long leash. Letting go of it for some distance, clearly pronounce the nickname, command "To me" and show the delicacy that you hold in your hand.
Approached the dog should be encouraged. The distracting dog must be reasoned with a slight jerk of the leash. The dog, which executes the team listlessly, should be encouraged, pretending that you want to escape from it. In all cases, when the command is executed, it is necessary to repeat "To me, good" and give a treat.
Afterwards, tie the given team with a gesture - raise your right hand, stretching it to the side, to the level of the shoulder, and immediately lower it to the thigh. Repeat these steps several times, and the dog will perform commands submitted by gestures.
How to teach to execute the command "Sit" for a dog.
All the commands that control the dog at some distance, it is necessary to divide into two stages. The first - the execution of commands on a leash, the second - after mastering the first stage, gestures or voice.
We begin processing the command "Sit" this way:
Holding the dog on a short leash, from the left, turn to her half-turned, and give the order. Parallel pull the dog with his right hand, pulling the leash up and back, and with his left hand press him on the croup. So the dog sits. If the dog tries to get up, say "Sit" again, continuing to press on its croup. With a good fit, encourage a treat.
With the help of delicacy work out this command and thus. The dog is to your left, and you hold, for example, a piece of cheese in your right hand, lifting it over your dog's head. He will have to raise his head, still watching the cheese and sitting down involuntarily. Take advantage of the moment and help him sit down, with his left hand pressing him on the croup. Similarly, the teams "lie" and "stand".
Teach the dog to execute the command "Place"
When the dog is away from you, he wants to run up to you. It needs to be returned to the team by the team. According to your cry "Place" he must go back and lie down on the rug or next to the thing. Take your time slowly, waiting for him to rush after you. Then go back and put the dog back in place with the words "Place, lie". Continue until he learns the command.
We execute the command "Aport"
"Aport" means - grab it, bring it. An extremely useful team for official dog breeding. By teaching her a dog, you can teach him to bring some thing you need. The team is practiced with the support of the dog's innate ability to grab an object. Waving a dog before the snout, say "Aport" and give him the opportunity to grab a toy. While he is holding the ball in his mouth, say "Aport, good." Gradually you will achieve that the dog will start to bring you this toy.
Here, the "Dai" team is also being worked out. The dog, bringing the ball, must give it to the owner, first exchanging for a treat.
We work out the prohibiting team "Fu"
This is an extremely important team. It is necessary to achieve its strict implementation, because it is with the help of the shout "Fu" that you stop any negative actions of your pet. The team is being trained with the help of a pain stimulus. Use a jerk leash and even a strict collar, hit the rump with a whip, with a certain strength.
Engage in practicing this team on walks. Holding the dog on a long leash, wait until he wants to rush to someone else and frighteningly bark, pounce on another dog or take a treat from a stranger. Immediately tear the leash on yourself or hit with a whip, but in no case by hand, by rump. Just accustom the dog to the muzzle, giving the command "Fu" in the event that he wants to break it. Only having mastered this command, the dog can walk without a lead.