Discover If SitStayFetch Dog Obedience Training Tips Really Work.

SitStayFetch provides some great dog training tips on how you can make your dog more obedient to your commands and they allege that your dog's behavior problems will go away by using their techniques. So, we are going to utilize their tips and techniques by conducting a case study on the different aspects they present in their dog training course.

For my case study, I am going to take their tips and use them to train my German Shepherd dog, Bear, whom has no training experience. Bear's main problem at this time is that he does not come when called. So, I am going to take their tips on how to train your dog to come on command and see if he improves using their tips.

My dog bear loves to play tag with the dog next door. This by itself is not a problem, but it becomes a problem when he plays tag running along the fence inside my garden. So, in order to save my garden, I try and call him to come inside by saying, 'Bear. . . come.. .' but he does not listen to me. He only glances at me long enough to acknowledge I said something and then goes on his merry way doing what he pleases.

Now frustration sets in, so I start shouting "Bear. . .Come!!!" He will not even acknowledge me now. So I start yelling in frustration and go grab him by the collar and make him come inside, letting him know I am angry at him for not listening to me. I am sure many dog owners have been there and done that. SitStayFetch tells me that I am approaching this all wrong as dogs think differently than humans. They inform me the reason why my dog is not listening to me and tell me by just implementing the why into my training will make my dog a lot more obedient to my commands.

What exactly does SitStayFetch teach us about training our dogs to be obedient to our commands? They teach us that when we discipline our dog for not doing what we want, our dog is learning that the command is bad and they should not listen to it. So, if we give our dog the command, come, and then yell at him for not listening, the dog will relate that command to bad things and will not do what you want. You see, dogs learn from positive reinforcement. By getting mad and giving your dog a command, he thinks that command means he is in trouble and will avoid it whereas we think that the dog will learn that his actions were bad and will learn to do it right. SitStayFetch informs us that if we want our dogs to listen to us, we need to use positive reinforcement that rewards our dogs and teaches them by performing the command good things will happen.

If we want our dogs to learn the come command, we need to teach him with positive words and not with negative words or actions. To accomplish this, SitStayFetch teaches us that there are some things we need to do in order to get our dog to listen to us. I will address 3 of the tips here that I feel are the most important, or are the ones that helped my dog Bear the most.

One: Use yummy treats that your dog will love to eat. SitStayFetch suggest to use hot dogs, cheese, or dog treats. I use Cheetos because Bear loves them.

Two: Use a positive cheery voice when using the command and say "Bear. . . Come. . .".

Three: Use a long leash so you can reel him in when saying come.

Now that SitStayFetch has taught me the correct way to perform the command come, I hooked Bear up to my 15 foot leash, got a small bag of cheetos in my jacket pocket, and went outside to teach him his new command. The results. . .

At first Bear did not respond because he had been preprogrammed by me that the command 'come' was bad. So I initially had to say "Bear. . .Come. . .", and real him in to me, using the leash, while saying, "Good Boy Bear. . . Good Come. . ." in a very cheery voice, and then giving him a piece of a hot dog. Boy was he excited over that! Then I repeated this by letting him play with his neighbor dog friend and then saying "Bear. . .Come. . .", reeled him in while giving him praise and a nice treat. It was not long that Bear soon realized when I said "Bear. . .Come" that he was going to get praise and treats and would come running on command. I was so ecstatic and grateful that my dog finally learned to come when I called him.

Does the dog obedience training tips that SitStayFetch teach really work to train your dog? The results I have seen in just 1 day of implementing the tips to teach Bear the come command are proof to me that yes they do work. SitStayFetch helped me accomplish in 1 day what I had been trying to teach Bear for months. It is so nice to have a dog that actually listens to your commands. Just apply the techniques that SitStayFetch teaches you, and your dog will be obedient in no time at all.

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