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23
How do I make my puppy more obedient?
ByQuestion by Christine: How do I make my German Shepherd puppy more obedient?
She is SO hyper, and she never listens. My mom is the best at training her, but she doesn’t have time. My dad is too nice, and he doesn’t have time either. So I have to. I need to make her more obedient!
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Answer by juggalohomie6
Give the German Shepherd some muscle relaxors.
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Send her to obedience school
Slap it with a newspaper…
all puppys are hyper just play with her and give her lots of attention, mabye a school will help
Hitting and yelling won’t help – you’ll only do more damage. Take her to obediance classes. And remember – she *is* a puppy. It’s the price you pay for getting a young dog.
Enroll in obedience classes. Those trainers know the most and can train her fastest. Be sure you sign up for one that let’s you be involved in the training.
Obedience school. If that’s not an option, check into some of Ceasar Milans (sp?) tapes.
P.S. It takes time, patience,comitment & CONSISTENCY. Get going, it ain’t gonna happen because you wish it so
First of all I can tell you love your puppy, and that’s great, it will make training her a little easier. One thing you have to remember is that you a teaching her how to behave in your home. She will not hate you for that. You do need to have a lot of patience and understanding when it comes to this. Your puppy may not get it right the first few times. I can give you some advice on training her, but it seams like you have an expert in your house already, your mom. Even though she may not have the time to train her, she probably has some time to teach you how to do it. Just remember to be stern, and let your pup know you are the boss. Just because you love her doesn’t mean she is your boss now.
you can send her to an obedience school. but sometimes that can get too expensive. you can train her yourself, like you can get her a mild bark collar if she barks too much. and if she gets too wild, you tell her sternly ”NO”. then put her in a crate or outside or something for a while. but since she is hyper, you can’t cahnge her that much, you must play with her frequently.also. you can take her on wlks, play fetch, tugofwar, etc.if you need any more specific help, you can email me at puppy_rok316@yahoo.com
you can also go to the site below for tips.
good luck!!
OBEDIENCE
The key to success in training your Dog is understanding the psychology of your pet – i.e. how its mind works, and then incorporating that with proven training techniques and a few training aids.
Remember, your Dog is not a human and therefore does not think or react as a human would. Also, your pet does not verbally communicate with humans and you should not think that it does.
It may recognize the word “out” and associate it with going outside, but that is only because it is a common action that occurs consistently before it goes outside.
If you change the verbal word you use to communicate with your Dog along the way, your pet will no longer understand what you want. It is important that whatever word you choose to give a command, you stick with that same word each and every time, without the least alteration.
Also, before you can even begin training your Dog, your must establish that you are the “Master” and your Dog is the “Follower”.
Remember, the Dog has an inherent trait that makes it a social animal, needing a dominance subordination hierarchy. You must establish that you are the leader of its pack before you will be successful with any type of training. This is called “social reinforcement”.
The following items will help you establish that leadership role in the life of your Dog:
i) Do not compromise with your Dog. For example, if you want it to perform a desired behavior, don’t just give up and walk away when it does not perform. Instead, use some type of reinforcement to show it that its behavior was not correct, such as withholding the
treat or toy.
ii) You should always initiate interaction with your Dog and terminate the interaction with your
Dog rather than the other way round.
iii) Avoid tending to your pet’s every desire. Rewards should only be given for desired behavior, and should never be given just like that.
iv) When you are spending time with your Dog, pet, talk and touch it often. This will help establish the trust needed to truly set you forth as the leader.
Obedience Training Styles
Just like housebreaking, when you are training your Dog, the key thing is consistency. You need to pick a training style that is suitable for you and your Dog and stick with it.
The two most popular types of obedience training are leash and collar training and reward training.
In the leash and collar type of training, the leash is used in the beginning as the tool to teach the correct behavior, then once the behavior is learned, the leash is only used to correct unwanted behavior.
A mistake often made by the novice owner with this type of training is they forget the leash is used only as a tool.
Often a novice owner will abuse the leash to nag at the Dog.
This defeats the purpose of the leash. The leash must be used only to get the Dog to obey. It is used to establish the leadership role between master and pet, but to be successful in training, the Dog must understand the command with or without the leash and you must be able to utilize any tool at hand to solicit the correct behavior from your pet, not just a leash.
Reward training usually incorporates food rewards or a reward that is associated with getting food. The associated award could be the command “Good”. Many owners now use a clicker as an associated reward.
A secret to making the reward trained Dog reliable is working the pet around distractions in its
environment and teaching proper socialization.
If you only train your Dog in the house, it will not be used to extra stimuli. The well trained
Dog, then exposed to unfamiliar people, may not respond as desired. When reward training, it is important you train both inside and outside your home to make sure your Dog is exposed to as much stimuli as possible.
Another important tool in communication between you and your Dog is the tone of your voice when delivering a command.
The command “Good” will have a more positive tone. The excitement in your voice will be picked up by the Dog and it will eventually associate it with the feelings of acceptance for that response to the previous command.
The word “No” will have a more forceful tone, usually associated with a negative response, such as a stern tug on the leash if leash training. The Dog will eventually establish that tone as an indication for an undesired response to your command.
As you move on in your training, the tone will be as important to the Dog as the command itself.
Also frequently overlooked by the novice owner is body language. Once you get to know your pet better, you will understand its meaning behind specific body motions.
An owner who really understands his/her Dog will see even the slightest head movement in certain situations and understand exactly what it means. This enables the owner to give a command prior to a behavior occurring.
For the hyperness, make sure she gets plenty of exercise and gets a walk every single day.
If you don’t currently have a crate, consider using crate training as a way to teach her that sometimes it’s quiet time, period. Excessive crate time will make the hyperness worse, but crate time used as a friendly time-out (“whoops! looks like you need a break”) and NOT a punishment can teach the dog how to settle down when she gets over the top. You need to ignore screaming, whining, etc and not let her out of the crate until she’s quieted down. Crate does not solve training her OR redirecting her energy, so you’ll need to deal with both of those as well.
Here are a couple training and behavior links that might be helpful:
http://www.clickerlessons.com
http://www.blackacorndogs.com/train_nilif.html
when you are training him/her reward it for doing good.such as a dog treat or something it realy likes.it worked for me.