Author: Adrian Fletcher
Most people understand that dogs are a pack animal that likes to
live in a group. The dog instinctively understands the advantages of
being in a pack and has social instincts that it can express within a
group. In this context, a new dog or puppy that comes into your home is
joining your pack and sees you or the head of the family as the pack
leader. The dog looks to the pack leader for guidance and how to
behave. It accepts that this is the pack leaders job and that the rules
that are laid out are to be followed or it will be disciplined by the
leader. This is what obedience training is all about. It is a way of
teaching your dog the rules of the pack and the way to behave in the
wider community. And your dog wants to learn these skills that you have
to teach.
So what should you teach your pet ? For many people their approach to
obedience training is half hearted because they don't know what to
teach or how to do it. It also takes time and consistency to get your
message across to your dog. Eventually they lose the will to enforce
the rules they have leaid down and the dog becomes confused. However it
is important to teach your dog and ensure that he understands them.
Here are the key skills that your dog should know so that you can
control it and it can live safely in the human world.
It should be able to socialize with humans and other animals in the
home (specifically your family members and other pets like dogs and
cats).
It must be trusting of people and be comfortable being touched by humans.
It must be able to control it's aggressive tendencies.
It must accept restraint. For instance, it should know how to walk on a
lead in a calm manner without getting distracted by things around it.
It should be able to respond to your calls, especially coming when you call it.
It should go to the toilet in a specific place set by the pack leader.
It should accept being at home on it's own every once in a while.
If it can learn these skills then your pet will fit into the human
world comfortably and will be a popular part of your own family.
The sit stay fetch training course will give you the techniques and
skills to teach your dog how to do all these things and more besides.
It concentrates on the key skill, as mentioned above but it also has
section which teach more advanced obedience training commands.
The sit stay fetch course e-book is the heart of the package. It is a
content rich book that aims to teach you the philosophy behind
obedience training and how to understand the psychology behind the
course. It shows you how to understand what the dog is thinking. It
also covers many of the bad behavioral traits that dogs have and
explains why they do these things and how to stop them.
The next section of the book is teaching the obedience commands. I
think this is done well. For each command it is broken down into steps.
Each step has a photograph and text that explains what you must do. For
each command there are 4 or 5 photos and text that effectively
communicate what to do. After looking at a command and trying it a few
times you will have soon memorized it and be teaching your dog. The
commands feature all the essential commands that you need and a few
more advanced commands. There are a few extra e-books that come with
the total package. They cover topics like grooming your dog and
training it for security work. An additional book that is really useful
is on how to become a pack leader. For me this is an important lesson
to learn as it will underpin all the training that you do with your dog
in the future.
The main course also comes as mp3 files. This means you can load them
into your ipod or copy them to cd and listen to them whenever you like.
For the commands, you can listen to them as you are training your dog
which is really useful.
The sit stay fetch is best downloaded because you can be using it within 30 minutes of purchase.
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