The majority of dog owners really want to train their dog well. However they do ot realize how much time and severance it takes to reach their objectives. This results most of the times in errors that with a little bit of knowledge could easily be avoided.

Some people believe that dogs are just like little children. It’s true that the average dog can think at the level of a two year old, but there are many differences between the brain capacity of a human and a dog. Dispite their limited brain capacity it is amazing to see that dogs still can interpret our commands. But they are incapabel of understanding our language. They cannot relate between things that happened in the past with outcomes in the future the way we do.

The outcome many times is a dog that appears to ignore you, which is very annoying for the dog owner. Normally they are hearing you, but they just don’t understand what your are trying to communicate. To you it might be clear, because they even have shown the behaviour before, so it appears that they are just plain stubborn.

But they aren’t really playing with you. They might be distracted, or they just don’t remember yesterdays excercise. It is important for you to know that there are many explanations for your dogs behaviour.

So please have patience. Most dogs need a lot of repetition before they truly dominate a command. You have to train them in different settings. For some dogs you might need many, many months of training before they finally come every time you call him.

Being patient means controlling your anger and when your dog doesn’t obey you. It is easy to punish your dog as a means of correction, but I really wouldn’t recommend physical punishment for dog training. When you hit your dog you will only get a dog that fears you, not a dog that wants to please you with his behaviour. You should try to establish trust between you and your dog.

Dogs will more likely follow an owner that they trust. They will show a desired behaviour sooner when they know there will be a reward. When a dog is affraid of you he will only show the wanted behaviour when you are close. Dogs don’t reason like people. You can hit him, but he will not really learn anything. I strongly advise against hitting your dog, because apart from cruel it’s plain counter productive.

So, here’s how NOT to train your dog:

- Believe that your dog is just like you and talk to him as if he were a person.

- Think that a dog can relate between things happened in the past and their results now and understand the consecuenes.

- Become angry and impatient when he doesn’t listen to you. Whenever he doesn’t behave as you expect give him a punishment.

When you commit these dog training mistakes in the end you’ll have a disobedient dog. However if you wish for your dog to behave well you might want to start with yourself first and then dedicate time to training your dog.

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