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What is dog training?

Dog training is about teaching your do to do any good thing you want. There are 2 type of dog training.

One aims at teaching your dog to do things that he has not known how to do or wouldn’t do unless command. For easy reference, let’s call this “action dog training.”

The other dog training is to train him to stop or refrain from doing something that you don’t want him to do. We will call this “retention dog training.”

Use positive reinforcement in “action dog training” to train your dog. A good example of positive reinforcement is a dog treat.

A good hug or a walk on a park could be another good example depending on your dog’s taste, not yours.

It has to be some good and rewarding to make him repeat such trained responses.

Here's a simple dog training example that uses positive reinforcement. You command your dog to sit. When he does, you give him a piece of dog treat. Giving your dog a dog treat after he has complied with your command increases the likelihood that he’ll respond again.

Use negative reinforcement in “retention dog training.” A negative reinforcement is a response that your dog dislikes such as a tug on the leash followed by an immediate release of tension on the leash when your dog is pulling on the leash.

This unpleasant dog experience will make him stop pulling on the leash. Another example is when you want your dog to stop eating feces, make the feces distasteful and distracting by combining some ingredients in his food that causes that.

Note: Never use dog hitting as negative reinforcement on dog training exercises. That’s not just crude but can turn your dog into a mean dog and bite you some day.

During a dog training lesson, use the same phrases that you feel the dog can recognize. Don’t use different phrases that have the same meaning because your dog is after all a dog. He will have a hard time understanding your new phrases.

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