Basic dog obedience training this can make or break your relationship with your dog.

Start basic dog obedience training with your puppy early at about 8 - 12 weeks, with commands such as sit, stop, come, heel, stay, bed.

To make training your dog successful, you need to have established yourself as the leader, so your dog will respect and obey you.

One of the most positive training methods is rewards training with treats and lots of praise. Sometimes it is helpful to have your dog on a leash, also another person on hand to assist as required.

Come

This is a good command to start basic dog obedience training, it is a good idea to train your puppy by linking the command “come” with a popular activity e.g. mealtime. Then progress to other times when you have the lead on your puppy, you walk away, turn, face your puppy say ‘come’ give the lead a short pull, when he comes to you give lots of praise/treat. With practice it will not take long until you will not need the lead to encourage him.

Heel

This is a command best taught when out walking, ever time you stop say heel this will train your Dachshund to walk by your side. You may need to have the lead short as you give the command to encourage him to stop beside you at the command.

Sit

The command ‘sit’ can initially be accompanied by you gently pushing his rump to the floor, you may find it easier to hold his collar so he stays still. As soon as he is in the sit position give heaps of praise and perhaps a treat. As basic dog obedience training progresses you will not need to push his rump down, and gradually replace the treat with lots of praise and perhaps a toy.

Stay

This is a useful command when you do not want your dachshund move from that spot, for safety or any other reason. To start with give the command and give a pull on the lead to get him to stop, reward him as soon as he stops. If he does not stop repeat the exercise until he understands then reward/praise. Steadily increase the distance between you and your dog, with a retractable lead this should be a reasonable distance.

Bed

This is a command I taught Jazz as it meant I could get her to sleep in her own bed as she would often come and stand beside our bed, wanting to get up, but I wanted her to use her own bed, I used treats in her bed to start. I started by saying the word ‘bed’ when she went on to her bed. To encourage the action I would point to her bed and repeat the command ‘bed’ she learnt this command quite quickly. She now loves her own bed, and when going away we always take it with us.

With basic dog obedience training, when your dog has obeyed the command it is helpful to also have a command that releases the dog such as ‘Okay’. As your dachshund learns these commands slow down on the treats and only give rewards on odd occasions but always give generous praise and attention.

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The author has presented an easy to read book, well set out with clear training instruction’s, the training is rewards based which I feel is a positive approach and the fact that it also includes an audio lesson section, makes it very user friendly.

Included in this dog training system are many interesting and informative facts about dogs, such as understanding your dog’s body language, a dogs life stages, cost of owning a dog etc. The importance of you being the leader or Alpha is stressed and excellent advice on how to achieve this is given.

This book covers most areas of training from toilet training to social behavior and on to general obedience training. Each section of this training system is well set out with clear outlines for basic dog obedience training, sit, stay, down, come, heel, halt and leave.

Extending into other commands such as hold, release, speak and wave, I thought teaching your dog the commands “easy” which means to be careful that hand is human so don’t hurt it and “no bite” which is self explanatory was excellent teaching for young dogs.

In conclusion to this review I think this training system gives quality advice and information that is easy for any dog owner to understand and learn from, making training your dog fun and successful.

As an owner of a dachshund dog I know how important training a young dog can be, as an obedient, well trained dog is a pleasure for owner and friends.

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