Sunday, August 8, 2010

Labradoodle Training with proper training tools

Right tools can make the training go properly and well. It depends on you what you choose for your dog to make the training period easy. But the most important thing is leash. Training Dog with leash makes it easy for you to have control on your labradoodle. It acts as a means of communication between you and your dog. A good leash is strong but appropriate and comfortable for your dog.
The leash shouldn’t be longer than 6 feet and width depends on the size of your dog. If the dog’s size is small, then the leash not wider that half inch will be enough. If the dog is medium sized or big, then leash should be wider than at least 5/8 to 3/4 inch.
Another thing you can choose for labradoodle training is collars. There are varieties of collars in the market like fixed-circumference collars, correction collars, head collars and harnesses. As already said, your selection of collar should be based on the size of the labradoodle you have. The size should be such that he feels comfortable in easy in it. Fixed circumference collar will be best for any size of well trained dog.
But if you have bold and aggressive labradoodle that shows his violent nature when discover new people and other pets, then using a halter will be best. With halter, you can not only control his head but his whole body as well. Halter is good than the collar because it access more control over your dog. At first, your labradoodle may resist or whine when put in the halter but when time passes on and week and month finishes, he will be happily adjusting with the halter. To make it more easy, you can praise or reward him after putting him in the halter.
A choke collar or correction collar is somewhat effective tool for making the labradoodle training easy as it will tighten when the dog pulls away or you pull him to draw his attention towards yourself. Use it whenever you are training him with it but remove it when not in use as I have seen many dogs strangled to death when allowed to roam around alone and play with other dogs while wearing it. The dog owner must be bewared of this.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

How To Train Bichon Frise


Dog lovers must consider some factor before taking some dogs as their pet. If someone wants to have bichon fries as their pet, then he/she must know how to train bichon frise because without training they aren’t too much worthy. It’s hard to develop positive behaviors in them without training. Training makes them obedient, clever, sociable and worthy as your pet. Above all training helps you to eliminate or develop any undesirable behaviors in them. Thus you will be secure with your friendly and well behaved dog.
Since all dogs are attention seeking, it’s not the matter of surprise that bichon frise also wants the attention of the humans or his master. For seeking attention he may bark or jump on you. Barking is the natural habit of him and communicating means as well. Therefore whenever it wants to tell something to you like “I want to play with you”, “I want to go potty”, “I am hungry” etc. he barks or give similar signals. So understanding their barking and body language will help you if don’t know how to train bichon frise. But sometimes continuous barking can be a problem for you and your neighbor so put strict limit on it.
To solve a problem you must know the background and the key point of the problem. When your bichon frise barks continuously, then there must be some reason behind it. So study and analyze about it find the solution. He might be barking because of loneliness, boredom or because of encountering something unusual or other dogs. Since they are social animals, they will always seek for the company of the human. Know this fact and spend time with him as much as possible in order to prevent some undesirable behavior in him.
If you haven’t socialized your bichon frise then there’s maximum chance that he will bark at strangers and other dogs. To prevent this, training dog in the park or in the beach and let him explore the public places, the humans and other pets. Due to continuous interaction, he knows that there’s no harm for him from other humans or dogs. They will become more friendly if you socialize them.

Chihuahua Puppy Training Tips


Chihuahuas are the smallest breed of dogs and are very gentle and loyal by nature. Training a Chihuahua needs regular rewards and lot of patience. After the training is completed, they are the perfect watch dogs since they are highly protective and fearless by nature.
Age Limit
There’s exactly no age limit to wait for training a Chihuahua. They can learn early and needed to be trained as early as possible.

Socialization
To make Chihuahua non-aggressive and fearless, he should be introduced to all the members of the family as well as to your friends, some strangers and other pets. Socializing will help him adjust to the different kinds of environment normally.

Comfort level
Comfort level is needed to make the training process much easier. You can’t teach or train your Chihuahua unless you both don’t feel comfort with each other. To develop the comfort level, you need to respect your dog and get respect in return as well. Letting him know that you are a master is a must but behaving like friends is what make the training a Chihuahua successful.

Routine development
When things are done in a routine, it is more practical and easy unlike randomly done things. Make a routine of almost everything like providing meal, potty time, training period, playing moment etc. With making of a routine, it will be easier for you to learn about the timings of when he’s more energetic and when he’s feeling lazy and sleepy. These things will help you more in the time of training him.

Eliminating areas
Taking your Chihuahua regularly outside and making him to defecate at the same spot always will also develop a habit in him to go for the same place when he’s needed to do it. To know when he wants to do, just watch for the signals like sniffing, circling round, whining etc.

Reward Training
Give him any kind of pet food as a reward when he does some task correctly. For instance-when you say him to sit, give me the treat if he immediately sits down. Repeat the same for 4-5 times and he will know that he’s gonna get treat if he obey what you say. This reward based training will help in making him obedient and witty.