Basic Commands To Use In Training Your Dog
Written by Ras Reed   
Monday, 09 February 2009
Training your dog is basically a way of ensuring that it acts in a disciplined and acceptable manner. Dog training certainly is a process that involves a series of well-articulated orders repeated constantly enough for a dog to get used to and respond to. There are scores of aspects of dog training. However, obedience dog training is a fundamental training process that a dog must go through first. It is the desire of all dog owners' that their dogs obey their instruction. Once you can train your dog to obey, every other thing falls into place.
by RasReed


Training your dog is basically a way of ensuring that it acts in a disciplined and acceptable approach. Dog training certainly is a process that involves a series of well-articulated directions repeated consistently enough for a dog to get used to and respond to. There are numerous aspects of dog training. However, obedience dog training is a fundamental training process that a dog must go through first. It is the desire of all dog owners' that their dogs obey their direction. Once you can train your dog to obey, every other thing falls into place.

In obedience dog training, there are five basic directives or behaviors that a dog is taught. They are:

- Down: This order is customarily uttered to calm an especially exuberant dog. Your dog may be the overly excited kind that loves to paw people, lunge at them or even tug at their clothes. Teaching a dog to stay down when you order it to can help to keep its excesses in check. The 'down' directive is certainly a position of subservience the dog adopts when it is being excessive in its behavior.

- Sit: You can train your dog to sit down in a precise place. This direction is good for situations where you can't go into particular places with your dog. Teaching your dog to sit down and stay put while you shop or get hold of something prevents it from wandering off and getting lost.

- Stay: The stay direction is almost similar to the sit instruction except that you use it in situations where you are going to leave your dog alone for an exceptionally long period of time.

- Recall: Calling your dog to you is a directive that establishes you as the master. The recall order is proposed to call your dog's attention to you and to get it to come to where you are.

- Close or loose leash walking: You need to teach your dog how to respond to a leash. One basic dog-training tool, the leash enables you to do a variety of things ranging from walking your dog to correcting your dog. A dog that isn't used to a leash may not be able to respond favorably to your other instructions.

Each of these orders is executed using different words depending on the dog trainer. Use words that your dog will easily grasp and get used to.

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