Dog training commands and objectives
Training our dogs is a very important aspect of any dog and owner relationship. Dogs can be trained to a high degree for many specific purposes with the correct direction and guidance from their human companion. It is very important to give basic obedience training to any new dog. This training will give them the ability to respond to you safely and under greater control.
There are of course several other objectives that require dogs to undergo more specific training.
Dog training objectives include:
• dog obedience training
• assisting people with sight, mobility and hearing disabilities
• security and police work
• search and rescue
• agility and sports
• hunting.
As a pack animal dogs understand the importance of working together with other members of their pack. By taking the head roll in their pack we are looked upon for leadership and guidance. Dogs are excellent at interpreting hand signals, voice or other sound together with posture and body language. Any one or indeed a combination of these are used by our dogs to understand how they think we expect them to interact with us as their handlers.
Dog obedience training is based around six basic commands or behaviours.
The six basic obedience commands
• Sit
• Down
• Stay
• Recall
• Close
• Heel
Whilst the old saying, you can't teach an old dog new tricks, is not strictly true it is advisable for any dog owner to actively begin training their dog as early as possible. This series of dog training articles is designed to help, encourage and guide dog handlers through the six basic dog commands and behaviours. It is however very important to socialise any puppy at an early age. Dog training classes are an excellent way of socialising new puppies and also older dogs together with building your own confidence if new to dog handling.
• Coming Soon - The Sit Command
• Coming Soon - The Down Command
• Coming Soon - The Stay Command
• Coming Soon - The Recall Command
• Coming Soon - Close work command
• Coming Soon - Heel Command
