Training Techniques For Your Golden Retriever
31 Aug 2010
One of the most intelligent and elegant dog breed is the Golden Retriever dog.
This breed has not only elegance but the brains to quickly learn new tasks.
Patience should be your guide, never the less, particularly if you are teaching your {Goldie that go against your dog’s nature, or if he is slow in gaining a new routine.~Always be patient with your Golden retriever breed, especially if you find your dog slow in grasping commands to activities that are not natural to him.}
By attending a basic obedience class with your Golden Retriever will provide you with the basics of how to communicate with your dog and develop a rapport.
Your Goldie will learn best with the Rewards method of obedience instead of the leash training method since leash training can have a negative influence on this fine breed.
Goldie’s respond excellently to positive interaction, so always pet and compliment your dog when he obeys your commands.
Since Golden Retrievers respond so well to verbal commands, this is the best way to train them.
It is easiest to start with the ’sit’ command. When you Goldie ’sits’ reward him. When he learns that he will be rewarded for obeying commands he will have an incentive to obey.
Once your Goldie has learned ’sit’ and that he will get a reward, you will find it easier to teach him another command like ‘down’, but you must continue using the reward technique.
A pair of commands, ‘Go’ and ‘Stop’ need to be taught next. You can use a leash to give facility to your dogs learning, by saying ‘Stop’ while tightening and shortening the leash. Losing the leash with the word ‘Go’ lets your dog know he has more freedom.
You should only teach your Golden Retriever one command at a time; this way you won’t confuse your dog. Also you should avoid the harder commands such as ’stay’ until further one in his training.
Complicated commands should be taught only after you and your dog are firmly grounded with the basic commands. While teaching a new command, remember to run through the old ones so that your Goldie won’t forget the older ones, or worse yet, so he won’t confuse an old command with a new one.
