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8 Easy Ways to Train Your Puppy to Be Obedient in Short Time

8 Easy Ways to Train Your Puppy to Be Obedient in Short Time My neighbor's kid has a dog that sits at the kitchen door and waits every single time. Doesn't beg, doesn't whine, doesn't lean on your leg. Just sits, with a tennis ball at his feet, until somebody opens the door. I asked her how long that took. She said it started with him being a bad dog. I got the story later over a beer, and the short version is that it took about eight months of the boring kind of work, not the showy kind. Nobody filmed any of it. Nobody posted a thirty-second video of the dog going from wild to perfect. It was just a kid in a garage with a bag of treats and a dog who did not care about the bag of treats. That story has been sitting in my head for a month, because it's the honest version of a title like this one, and the honest version is more useful than the promise. Before we get into it, I should say what "short time" actually means here, because I think it gets misunder...
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How to teach your dog the stop barking command: 6 ways to train your dog not to bark

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How to teach your dog the stop barking command: 6 ways to train your dog not to bark Introduction When it comes to barking, dogs are like children. They learn new things quickly, but they can also forget what you taught them if you don't reinforce it with consistency and patience. The best way to ensure your dog stops barking is by keeping training sessions short and rewarding him for good behavior instead of punishing bad behavior. I'll show you how this works! /Section: Keep training sessions short. Keep training sessions short. Don't train for more than 20 minutes a day. If you do, your dog may become restless, distracted and lose focus on the task at hand. Don't overtrain your dog either. The goal of training is to get results in as little time as possible—not spend hours upon hours getting nowhere fast! You can actually hinder the learning process by overdoing it with repetitive exercises (like having your pup sit multiple times in a row). It's better to train ...
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