Teach your dog tricks in 90 days.

My mother just got herself a young golden retrieverpuppy. He was a very nicetype of dog. They are happy dogs and work well with older people. I found a goodschool for Away Training New Jersey and I wanted to help my mother. I wanted to find out if there were any. Shelives in the city alone and I needed to make sure the dog received the training. It would make things much easier for her. Dogs are wonderful but without the proper training they can really tear up a home. I didn’t want my mother thinking twice about getting her new friend.
It took metwo weeks of asking friends andsearching through the internet to find Dog Training Philedelphia. I needed the dog trainingschool to be close to my Mother’s townhome. I was lucky andfound a school only 5 blocks away. Mom could walk or take the bus to the training school. The school waswonderful and atreasonable prices. The website they had was easy to use. Prices were there to help you decide on a day to bring your dog in.
days went by and Daisy’s first class was here. Mom took Daisy to class as was surprised on how well run it was. Treats for the dogs everywhere. Even drinks for the owners. The dogs got torelax outside and run around together. Daisy was taught tojog to my mother when she calls. She was taught to sit as well. Mom was so excited. She learned commands and the right way to potty train Daisy.
Getting Daisy and my mother the proper dog training in Philadelphia was so important. I have my dog Max going through dog training in New Jersey as I write this. He is on his 5th class. Having Daisy and my mother work together will help them get to know each other better. Having a dog properly trained turns yourlittle friend in to a happy and healthy adult dog. The better trained they are the easier it is for their owners to care for them. Owning a dog is a lifelong gift. Dogs are true family members. The Philadelphia dog training school goals and reading material to help my mom raise the dog she loves and wants. Daisy is happier and my mom has a new friend.

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Teach your dog to stay without the ‘stay’ command

 Note: This is a guest post by Ty Brown who offers dog training in Salt Lake City and beyond. I asked Ty to contribute to my blog after he read my post on teaching a dog to stay and said he does not use a stay command. A dog told to sit should automatically stay, he said. Good advice!

I used to be the training manager for one of the largest protection dog companies on earth. As a company we would import some of the finest dogs from Europe to the United States and would spend months training them to protect home and family, be obedient companions and be the best pets anyone could ever hope for.

The investment for dogs of this caliber was regularly $25,000 per dog and up, and nearly every client we worked with would attest to how valuable an investment it was to have an impeccably obedient canine companion that could also guard them.

By the time we were done with these high-priced dogs, they would respond quickly and accurately to 20 or 30 commands.

Do you want to know the funny thing, though? After owning one of these dogs for months, most clients would report back that although the dog would obey any command quickly and happily, there were really only two or three commands used on a daily basis. Most clients would have need to tell their dog “come,” “down,” “come-on” and not much beyond that.

As people we are very verbal creatures. We talk and talk, and when we aren’t talking we turn on the radio or television to listen to and watch other people talk. It is very natural for us to also want to talk to our dogs. This is fine; there is no problem with this.

The problem, though, is in the commands we give our dogs. We give them too many! If you were to categorize and document the commands most people give their dogs on a daily basis you might find a list of 20 or more. What I’ve found is that most dogs are far better off with better selected and fewer commands. In fact, most people could easily stand to trim a list of 20 commands down to six or seven.

What do I mean by that? Most people I see tell their dogs to “sit” and then “stay.” Why bother saying “stay” once your dog has sat or lied down on command? You already told him to sit; you didn’t release your dog. If your dog does get up from a sitting position before you’ve asked him, you don’t have a “stay” problem, you’ve got a problem getting your dog to understand what “sit” means.

If you ask your child to clean his or her room and the child picks up one toy, do you call that good? Of course not. Your request isn’t complete until the child has finished picking up the room.

I teach my dogs that once I’ve asked them to sit, lie down, wait at the door, heel by my side, come when called, etc., to keep doing it until I’ve asked them to do something else or released them. I call it my “concept of permanence” and in doing so I only have to ask my dogs to lie down once, to heel once, to come once and so on.

It doesn’t stop there, though. I go into so many homes where the dog owner has a dozen words for the dog’s issues. When the dog jumps, the owner says “off,” “down” and “no jump.” When the puppy nips, the owner says “ouch,” “no bite” and “easy.” Why muddy the waters with so many commands? If your dog does something you don’t like, why not stick to a single word like “no” or “uh-uh”?

The bottom line is dogs are smart. If we need them to understand 20 commands, they can do it. Personally, though, I like to simplify things for them so we’re not giving needless commands. The more commands you give, the easier it is for those commands to become ignored.

Happy training.

Do you use a stay command? What do you think of weeding this command out of your training?
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