Labrador Training Tips

by Andrew Tyalor

Stop your dog’s mistaken thinking in only a few moments and permanently cancel a behavior. Correcting it takes the entire lifetime of your dog. So you can solve behavior problems permanently quickly, by correcting your dogs behavior problems each time they occur, for all time.

When you get tired of correcting, whining, nagging, and arguing, start reading this manual again, follow the directions, and change your values. Change is difficult but worthwhile.

In our example, as you prepare to exit the room, create a sound just before your dog reaches the exit. Instantly praise him. Continue to leave yourself, and if he continues to try to exit, make the sound behind him, and praise him again. If he leaves the room against your command, just repeat the command “go in the other room good boy”. This will be treated as a new request, to be carried out according to how things are working out.

Remember the last instance in which sound was used, and try to insure the sound comes from the appropriate source, i.e. if he went into the “other room” on his first request without sound, perhaps strictly as a coincidence, then that instance would require the application of sound with your next command.

To review: first request, “go in the other room, good boy”; second request; “go in the other ROOM good boy”; third request “go in the other room, good boy”; Let’s say he accomplished the request properly. When he violates the command, your next request to send him back in there would be, in actuality, his fourth request, requiring sound on this command. If you are not thoroughly confused at this point, I’m surprised. Here’s the rest of the secret: The sequence of events never starts over again, but always continues from the last instance in which the sound was used. It is imperative to try to remember the last occasion in which your dog was given a command.

Let’s say, he’s out in the back. Call him in. Should he fail to respond, reach for the can, and repeat your request with one hard shake to create sound. Naturally, your dog will respond on this occasion. So next time that he is out in the yard, -even if it’s the next day, and he does not comply, remember when it was you last needed to re-enforce the command, using sound.

So you might stop for a moment to think, “gee, wasn’t it just last night, that I asked him to come inside, and failing that, needed to create the sound on my second request for him to come in?” Did the sound come from my hand, or did the can need to be tossed beyond him. Follow through thinking this out, and make the right decision. If you can’t remember the last instance, that’s O.K.

Do what you can and set yourself a time to do the Family Pack Leadership exercise when you plan to re-train the conditioned reflex to “come”. It’ll take about 10 minutes.

About the Author:
Here is a video of an obedient Labrador performing its owners requests. The e-book gives many more suggestions while you are training puppies
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