Can You Benefit From Training Your Golden Retriever Correctly?

By : John Philips
A training schedule for your Golden Retriever should involve a lot more than just teaching him to sit or stay. All family members should be implicated in the exercise, because, even though training your dog is a prerequisite it should also be pleasurable, fulfilling and satisfying for all concerned. A first priority should be house training your Golden Retriever, if only for your own sanity and hygienics.

A necessary requirement may be several coaching sessions a day, with plenty of patience and persistence, when you first start training your Golden Retriever. Golden Retrievers, being one of the more responsive breeds to training, usually learn at faster rate than most other varieties of dogs. Effective training is as much about attitude as skill, remembering that all dogs respond faster to positive inducements than punishment or trepidation. Training for your Golden Retriever needs to involve more than just refinement and perception.

Obedience training should not be arbitrary and if, done correctly, it will build your relationship and bring about a change in character within any dog. It will end nearly all behavioural problems and is the best way to keep both you and your dog happy. It may get frustrating at times in the early days, for both you and your Golden Retriever, but should always be carried out with a positive attitude and, importantly, reward your dog when he gets something right rather than punishing him for his mistakes.

Defining good conduct can be fun for you and your Golden Retriever and he will have no behaviour problems if he is clear about where he stands and his function within the group . Unsupervised a Golden Retriever puppy, will cultivate his own schedule and behaviour as will most breeds of dog. Reward good behaviour with lavish praise and use verbal reprimands instead of punishment. Bringing about the opposite behaviour than what you are trying to achieve, even compounding existing ones, can be the result of severe punishment tactics, which can actually cause behavioural problems in itself.

Dog training can, in itself, be an overwhelming task so a professional dog trainer may be your preferred option. A reputable dog trainer shouldn't be too difficult to find, but if you have problems the first places to search would be your local kennel or veterinarian's office. Obvious skills to look for in a trainer are knowledge, commitment, patience, and adaptability. Of equal importance is the experience he has gained through the amount of different dogs he has had through his hands. He must be comfortable around dogs and people, discerning and enthusiastic, but most of all is the relationship he builds in a class or one to one environment.

Accept that most dog trainers, especially a problem dog trainer, will spend most of his time training the owner, so be prepared for this. But, as he is experienced in the task, a professional dog trainer will actually show you the proper way of housetraining and handling your dog.

Your enthusiastic approval is the most dependable training instrument you have so be unvaried in your instructions and be aware and it will help your dog understand. Like all dogs, Golden Retrievers, do not distinguish the spoken language unless it's corresponds consistently with something meaningful to them. But they are moved by your emotions, even when they don't understand them, so they must see that it is the bad behaviour that you don't like, not the dog itself.

Years of enjoyment and allegiance will be the result of a fully trained Golden Retriever. And when analysed closely you will detect that you as the teacher will benefit even more from this relationship with your canine pupil.



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