Many books and videos exist on training of dogs. Also, depending on the country in which alive, you can find courses to learn to train your dog. Nevertheless, and in spite of as much existing information, the people are few who manage to train a dog until elevated levels of trustworthiness and fluidity. This must to that the majority of people, and many trainers, commit errors that they do not have to do with the training techniques, but with a mistaken perspective of which entails the education of a dog.

Apply them and you will see how you become an excellent trainer, or that you want to educate your mascot so that one behaves correctly or which you want to develop all your competing potential as in canine sports.

1. Define your goals. Before beginning to train your dog you must know which is the result that delays. The form in which you train and the time that you will arrange to the training, will be different according to your goals. To train your dog (or to the one of a client) so that it reaches a level of high competition in canine sports will require a strategy and a chronogram different from which you will need if only you want that your puppy behaves correctly in your house. Make sure to define your goals with clarity before beginning to train.

2. Have a determination. Many proprietors of dogs begin a course of training with the intention to educate their mascots, but when they find some more or less intense difficulty (for example, that the dog distracts itself easily when there are other dogs close) decides to leave everything. These people do not have the determination necessary to train their dogs and by that they are incapable to surpass the difficulties that appear in the process. Ten in account that stops to obtain a training of high level you must be convinced that you will achieve the success. You must have determination to obtain your goals.

3. Begin in the beginning. In the training of dogs, like in other disciplines, they exist prattling that affirm that they do not need to make the things basic and they can skip the initial stages because they are superior to the others. Phrases like “I do not work in basic obedience. I only make training advanced “am typical of these pseudo trainers and show his ignorance of the general process of training. If you want to reach advanced levels of training you must begin by the principle, still if you only want to teach a pair of idiot tricks to your dog. As what it will serve to you to make all the exercises of advanced training if not even you have managed to establish a basic mechanism of communication with your dog?

4. Take a step simultaneously. The time that lasts the training of the dog has turned a criterion important in the present society, so customary to look for fast and easy solutions. He is why many trainers and schools of training offer “magical solutions” in programs of two weeks. That is like trying to form engineers in two months.

You are not deceived. Although the time is an important factor, you must prioritize the quality of the training over its duration. In order to correctly train your dog you must advance little by little, without demanding your dog that includes/understands everything of blow. It concentrates your efforts in a single criterion by session and you will see more effective results. In addition, to advance little by little will allow to obtain results faster than if you try to include much in just a short time.

5. Surround yourself with successful trainers. One of the secrets of the success in any discipline consists of surrounding itself by successful people. If you want to be successful in the training of your dog, is a good idea that you begin to frequent successful trainers. Obvious, these trainers must be successful in the scope that interests to you. If you want to incursion in canine sports you need to join with competitors the sport that interest to you. If you want to train to your dog for search and rescues, you need to surround yourself with people who practice that type of training.

In some cases it is not possible to find successful trainers in the discipline that interest to you. For example, it can live in a country in which canine sports do not practice. In that case, you will not be able to join with trainers who are successful in these sports. If you are in this situation, it looks for books and videos of those trainers and forms a work group with people who have your same interests. It is not just like to surround itself with successful trainers, but it is better than not to do anything on the matter.

6. Respect the times of training. This principle is simple but many times it is ignored. In the schedule which you have destined to train your dog, dedicate to train nothing else and. It rests, it plays with your dog and you do everything what one comes to you in desire in other schedules. The time of training must be sacred if you want to reach an advanced level.

7. Have a registry. Most of the trainers they do not take a registry of the training of its dogs, with the exception of which they practice the training with clicker. Nevertheless, to take a registry helps very many. When you take a registry of each session of training, you can know with certainty to what extent you advanced and what problems exist. The memory is fragile, so you do not entrust yourself in her to maintain the registry of your sessions of training. The USA the old method of the pencil and the paper, and keep a registry of each session, writing down the percentage of correct answers of your dog, the duration of the session, hour, date and some observations that seem to you pertinent.

8. Keep your enthusiasm. Since the training takes time and it does not happen of a day for the other, it is easy to lose the enthusiasm. There is nothing better to maintain the enthusiasm by the training of dogs that to see videos of competitions. It looks for videos that interest to you and look at them at every certain time. In addition to help you maintain the enthusiasm; they will give many ideas you to train. It remembers that only you will be able to reach a training of high level if you maintain the enthusiasm.

9. Don’t exaggerate with the training. Although the training is an excellent way to improve the relation that you have with your dog, and to provide to your better friend intellectual and physical stimulus to him, it is not only the important thing. In order to have a healthy and happy dog, at the same time that it reaches its maximum potential in the training; it must be balance in three main planes: physicist, mental and emotional. Therefore, you must offer to your dog the necessary cares of health, a healthy feeding, sufficient physical exercise (strolls and games), company of humans and dogs, a calm atmosphere to live and much love.

10. Don’t justify the failure. It is common that the trainers justify their failures blaming to external factors. Sometimes they blame to the atmosphere (“very noisy “, “many present dogs”, etc.), other times blame the proprietors of the dogs (“it does not have the necessary leadership”, “cannot canalize its energy”, etc.), and other times blame to the race or the lineage of the dog (“the dog cannot be trained”, “this dog cannot remain quiet because drive has much”, “is of line of work, so it is not possible to be tranquilized”, etc.). All those excuses only serve to receive the pay without seeming incompetent.

If you want to take to the limit the training of your dog, you must be conscious that the occasional failure is part of the process. Whenever you fail in some aspect, it considers that failure as a challenge and an opportunity to learn. Instead of justifying that the dog did not go to the call, ask yourself what is what failed in the training process and correct it.