As well as being important for a whole stack of reasons, dog training is an essential component in the life of your canine companion.
Being able to communicate with your dog enables a level of control which may ultimately be needed in an emergency or unplanned situation. Just imagine if your dog accidentally escaped its lead whilst on a walk and he or she likes to run fast. If this happened to you and you had no control over your dog, what would you do? Worse still, if this all occurred next to a busy road with lots of traffic the ramifications could be very serious, and not just for your pet.
Then there are the public situations that you are likely to encounter as owner and dog, such as trips to the vets, meeting other people and their dogs whilst out walking, noisy children, traffic, bicycles, the postman, and so on. So, if you are planning some dog training Brisbane’s perfect climate and the availability of numerous experienced trainers means that you should be able to locate an suitable trainer near you, and have the facilities and weather to plan out your training schedule, then make it happen. Getting your dog used to other people and socialising it with other animals ultimately makes future unimagined scenarios such as putting your dog into a boarding kennel, much easier.
Mental stimulation is an essential part of any dog’s daily schedule, and dog training Ipswich can become a fundamental part of this activity. Of course, like humans, when we get sufficient mental and physical stimulation, we get tired and we tend to sleep well. This same balanced lifecycle is beneficial to dogs too, so introducing and maintaining an element of training and discipline, as well as exercise, to their daily activity, presents the perfect opportunity to teach them the things you need.
Reward based methods are focussed upon rewarding your dog with a treat, praise, a pat or simply with eye contact, when they do the things you want them to, and act in good ways. When your pet becomes used to being rewarded for the good, ignoring them when they perform unwanted activity often causes them to stop doing it, simply because they aren’t getting the attention they have become used to.
The process of reward-based training sets the dog up to succeed, and they of course want to succeed, get the praise, and the treat, whenever they can, so this presents the opportunity to recognise good behaviours, and ignore bad ones. Regular training sessions, no matter how long or short, will help the development of obedience, which means that the management of your dog becomes much easier. Having a dog that you can control means that you can have them politely say hello to visitors, return to you when they are called, and demonstrate a host of other desirable behaviours.
Effective training benefits both the dog and owner. As well as establishing a level of safety at being able to control your pet, training often also leads to more sociable behaviour both at home and away from it.
