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The Best Location For Training Your Dog
from: Kyle BesserIn the beginning, you will want to train your dog in an environment that has few distractions. You want to be the most interesting game in the room for your dog to pay attention to. Indoors is definitely better than outdoors for training your dog because you can't control the outdoor environment. Joggers, kids on bikes, cars, and other dogs being walked are just a few of the things that your dog may find more interesting than you in competition for his attention.
If you consistently use the same room or area in the house for basic dog training, your dog will automatically start to focus on you when you set up for basic dog training. Use this room or area whenever you are going to teach your dog something new. Once your dog seems to understand a new behavior, you will want to practice the new behavior it in different environments. It is very important to practice basic dog obedience training behavior in different environments if you want your dog to be well behaved out in public.
Most dogs are well behaved in the privacy of their own homes when no visitors are around but turn unstable or high-strung when someone comes over or when you take him out to the park or on a walk where there is a lot of other activity. This is because your dog doesn't integrate distractions or generalize his training. Your dog is not able to apply his training to environments other than the one you train in well unless you help him.
If you always do your basic dog training in the same area and practice having your pet sit two feet in front of the sofa, he will think that the command "sit" means to "sit two feet in front of the sofa." The first time you take him in the kitchen and ask him to sit in front of the refrigerator, he doesn't do it because he is thinking, "How can I sit? There's no sofa here!" Meanwhile, you are thinking that your dog is being stubborn, spiteful, or dumb because he knows very well how to sit and he is ignoring your command.
Every time you move to a new environment or add distractions, you may need to back up a couple of steps in your dog's training to let him know that "Sit" means the same thing wherever he is. A group training class provides a perfect opportunity to train your dog in a distracting environment and to teach him this important lesson. You will need to find dozens more opportunities like this for him to understand that "Sit" can happen everywhere.
Once he becomes more sophisticated about training and accustomed to working in different environments, your dog will be able to learn new things despite reasonable distractions, and he will be able to generalize more quickly with each new behavior that you teach him.
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