- Generally, give your dog an hour a day of quality exercise
- and know your breed. Huskies, for example, may need more exercise than other breeds.
- Vary the exercise and training environments.
- How would you like to walk the same street every day for the rest of your life?
- Exercise is physically and mentally stimulating for your dog and can prevent many problems.
- Teaching your dog should be about training what you want your dog to do
- rather than always telling her what not to do. .
- Be calm and have fun with your dog.
- Training in the wrong mood, getting angry or frustrated will translate to your dog.
- Stop training and try again later.
- Do not freely hand out food or treats.
- They are a valuable tool and free treating lessens their impact.
- Use one command for each behaviour.
- So, for example, 'down' should not be used
- to ask the dog to lie down and stop jumping up.
- Have realistic expectations.
- Puppies and young dogs learn quickly
- but reliability takes time.
- Equally older dogs and some rescue dogs
- may require more patience to learn new or changed behaviours.
- Training short and varied sessions
- can give better results than long sessions teaching one thing.
- Dogs can switch off, when that happens, nothing else happens.
- Training is life long.
- Dogs are always learning and even learned habits can be reinforced.
- Training is mentally stimulating for your dog.
