Close is a more advanced behavior that you’ll need to teach your dog, you don’t want to run over the city to keep the step with him. You ll need to train him so that he will be the one who learn to “walk like/with you”.
In order to start this exercise with him you must make the leash shorter so that the dog will walk right near your leg.
It will be very difficult if you have a full energy dog that wants always to run & play, but with lot of patience, practice, and rewards you’ll get a disciplined dog (at least in public, he will still run after cats through your garden when you’ll not be there).
Before you start first training with your dog be sure you have plenty of time to work with your dog and you are relaxed.
Now think to simple rules for him: never tell him “Sit Spot!”, just: “SIT!” Let’s say this is the first thing that you want to teach him. In this case you need to be patient and do not try to learn him other rule until he doesn’t obey this one.
Now lets see how we can teach him to sit: put your forefinger over the dog’s head, meanwhile be sure he is watching your finger.
Good, get easily your finger down, you ll see that the dog without realizing will just “sit”. Reward your dog and repeat.
Do not think he already will go in sit position every time you send him the signal, be patient it will take more to get that result.
For “Down” position you must proceed with the same principle, but your finger will get down till touching the floor.
Hello,
If you want to train your dog by your self, the first thing you need to know is that will be also funny but exhausting in the same time.
You’ll need some time and lot of energy for your dog.
Before you start you need to know there is some way to make your dog a friend and a good listener.
Some of the benefits of dog training are:
- Your dog will feel that he belongs to somebody
- He will behave better, and he will know when something is wrong, nevertheless he will try to make you smile
- You ll have a better communication with me
- He will be mentally stimulated, so you ll have a smarter dog
Stept in training your dog:
- Talk to him, never beat
- Teach him one rule in a row
- Don’t yell to him
- Train your dog in different places
- Train the dog while you are playing
- The training must be done every day
- Most important rule: do not expect from him to obey to every rule!