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Dog Obedience Training how i did it myself.

I recently had some experiences with my dogs as well as a few with friends’ dogs which actually told me about Importance of Dog Obedience Training. Before these experiences I always thought Dog Obedience Training is something a dog owner can do without any expert knowledge or experience, but I was proved wrong
My friend Tania and her husband matt bought a Pug/Chihuahua from a pet store and they named him Jack. When I visited them one 1st weekend I literally envied them both because of jack. Jack was such a cute and cheerful pug he kept jumping all over the couple with joy and love he was very playful and friendly and got acquainted to me in no time as well. I spent that afternoon with them had dinner and went back home to find my Labrador Badger had not eaten is lunch and I had to feed him like I do every day. I involuntarily started comparing Badger and Jack and when I realized that I felt guilty to my bones. Immediately I realized that my dog had separation anxiety issue and I decided to train him to be more independent and vowed to myself I will get read of his separation anxiety issues. Besides separation anxiety my dog also had terrible obedience problem. I called a few friends who owned a dog and asked for tips about Obedience Training. Some of them told me some training commands and how to get train dog for those commands like
• “Heel” to walk on a loose leash
• Respond to “No!”
• “Sit”
• “Stay”
• “Down”
• Respond to “Release”
I tried to teach those to Badger over next week trying not to lose my temper and not to get frustrated. I was successful to some extent in it but I realized it’s not really giving me the results which I expected and I was losing my temper and time over it. Next weekend I had Tania and matt for lunch at my house and I was surprised when they walked in with their dog Jack with them. As we sat down and started talking they told me they are now calling him “Jack the Ripper” and can’t leave him home alone even for a minute. Because of he would rip of pillows and sofa. I smiled to myself and told them problem I am facing with my dog about Obedience Training is pretty similar to what they are facing and as we talked more about it we realized that We are not really equipped for training dogs we have not idea about Obedience Training. And as we though Obedience Training is not really a child’s play it’s a tough job.
We deliberated about solutions and decided we should call a professional dog trainer to get our dogs trained. We searched in yellow pages for dog trainers and called a few dog trainers just to find out that their fees were something we couldn’t afford. We were back to square one and finally we decided to buy some books and train dogs by ourselves. We searched on internet for books about Dog obedience training and found a couple of good ones and I learned a lot from them I would love to share my training experiences with my readers
Dog obedience training experience 1:
We used our dogs name to get his attention. To have good control of our dog we realized we must be able to get a good orientation response from the animal. [ Build attention by using your pet’s name when calling it for food, walks, and play.] we did this randomly 10 times a day. Most important thing we learned was to never punish our dogs for coming to you or by calling him.
Dog obedience training experience 2:
We Always enforced commands that we gave, and didn’t constantly repeat commands. If we were not serious about enforcing a command, we didn’t give it.
Dog obedience training experience 3:
We Used timing as a form of communication with our dogs. Timing is one of the key elements of canine education. It does not matter what teaching method we were using, we worked at developing the proper timing for each technique.
Dog obedience training experience 4:
We didn’t punish desirable behavior. Such as having your puppy eliminate outside and then immediately leaving the puppy. If the puppy wants to be with you, you will have just punished the pup for doing the right behavior.

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Our Boxer

Before 3 years, I & my little brother Jolon were wondering in the forest which is still behind our house. It was very dense in those days. As Jolon was 10 yrs. old, he was so excited about the forest adventures like waterfall, some reptiles which we seen near a deep grass farm. I forgot to tell you about there was an animal in the forest which was following to us from our house to that waterfall. It was a small puppy of boxer breed. We found him behind us when we were far away from our house. We were playing with him & suddenly something bites to my leg near toe. It was a bite of snake which was not so poisonous. We were so frightened by this incident. Due to that incident we forgot our back way. I was unable to walk towards our house. But that cute little puppy help Jolon to reach home in time & inform my parents about the situation. Doctor said, “you are a lucky boy, your little superman saved your life”. I replied to doctor “No doctor, you are right but some credit goes to our cute puppy also, who helped Jolon to find a right way towards home”. From that incident I decided to train my cute puppy with amazing skills. Now, he is a well trained dog now. At last my opinion is boxer breed is more clever & smarter than other breeds.

Dog hair problem & family

Actually my mom likes pets very much but she was so angry in those days with our dog’s hairs were spread over all the floor in all rooms. She always told me about to take care of pets & their washing,grooming but I never listened to her & due to big amount of dandruff in our dog’s coat, we lost cute Alex 2 months before. I missed him very much. Then I thought for a while, I found one mail related to dog skin solutions . I bought a new puppy & as per that book instructions now I am taking care of both, my puppy & his coat.

Best Dog Food

I don’t know why my dog was acting like he was not hungry.
My dog didn’t likes a dog food of some branded companies.
Then I referred to some vets about it. But they were unable to find out what is the actual problem with my dog’s behavior about the food. Then I tried to search some ebooks on dog food. Finally I got the solution. I found one book on very worst dog food ingredients used today, including a full explanation of what it is and why its dangerous. After I read that book & tried to remove harmful ingredients from my dog’s food.

I miss my dog

My dad gave gave him as a present on my 14th birthday and and amazingly he became my best friend. I named him smoky and i simply cant forget the way he ran to me everyday after i came home from school. Those days i believed he understood everything i said and actually i still do. When time came to leave home and move out of state for college strangely enough i didn’t feel hard saying by to my friends and even my girlfriend but when i saw smoky standing there at door as if he understood everything i was devastated i felt my stomach churning and my heart almost stopped. Its really hard to describe what i felt and even now when i watch his pictures i feel the same way. I will upload his pictures on dog picture gallery on this site in couple of days too.

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