Planet Canine (2026)

16/03/2020

When Teaching New Skills, Keep Training Sessions Short and Sweet:

Like kids, dogs don’t have long attention spans.

There’s no hard-and-fast rule, but an ideal average training session should last 15 minutes or less.

Within that session, you can work on one skill or switch between a few different skills.

To keep things interesting, try doing 5 to 15 repetitions of one behavior and then doing 5 to 15 repetitions of another behavior.

You can also practice new skills and keep old ones polished by doing single repetitions at convenient times throughout the day.

For example, before giving your dog a tasty new chew bone, ask her to sit or lie down to earn it.

Quit while you’re ahead and end each training session on a good note, with a skill you know your dog can do well, and be sure to stop before either one of you gets tired, bored or frustrated.

16/03/2020

Take Baby Steps: 👌

Dogs, just like people, learn best when new tasks are broken down into small steps.

For example, you can’t go out and line dance unless you learn all of the individual steps first!

When teaching your dog a new skill, begin with an easy first step and increase difficulty gradually.

If you’re training your dog to stay, start by asking her to stay for just 3 seconds.

After some practice, try increasing the duration of her stay to 8 seconds.

When your dog has mastered an 8-second stay, make things a little harder by increasing the time to 15 seconds.

Over the next week or two, continue to gradually increase the duration of the stay from 15 seconds to 30 seconds to a minute to a few minutes, etc.

By training systematically and increasing difficulty slowly, you’ll help your dog learn faster in the long run.

16/03/2020

For dogs, English is a second language:🐶💁‍♀️

Dogs aren’t born understanding English.

They can learn the significance of specific words, like “sit” and “walk” and “treat,” but when humans bury those familiar words in complex sentences, dogs sometimes have difficulty understanding.

They can also get confused when people use different words for the same thing.

For example, some people will confuse their dogs by saying, “Fluffy, down!”

one day and “Sit down, Fluffy!” another day.

Then they wonder why Fluffy doesn’t respond the same way every time.

When teaching your dog a cue or command, decide on just one word or phrase, and make sure you and your family use it clearly and consistently.

15/03/2020

Training New Skills:

It’s easy to reward good behavior if you focus on teaching your dog to do specific things you like.

Dogs can learn an impressive array of obedience skills and entertaining tricks.

Deciding what you’d like your dog to learn will depend on your interests and lifestyle.

If you want your dog to behave politely, you can focus on skills like sit, down, wait at doors, leave it, come when called and stay.

If you want to enhance your enjoyment of outings with your dog, you can train her to walk politely on leash, without pulling.

If you have a high-energy dog and would like outlets for her exuberance, you can teach her how to play fetch, play tug-of-war or participate in dog sports, such as agility, rally obedience, freestyle, and flyball.

If you’d like to impress your friends or just spend some quality time with your dog, you can take her to clicker training or trick-training classes.

The possibilities are endless!

15/03/2020

Be A Good Leader: Part 2 ❤️🐶

Keep in mind that ditching the “alpha dog” concept doesn’t mean you have to let your dog do anything she likes.

It’s fine to be the boss and make the rules-but you can do that without unnecessary conflict.

Be a benevolent boss, not a bully.

Good leadership isn’t about dominance and power struggles.

It’s about controlling your dog’s behavior by controlling her access to things she wants.

YOU have the opposable thumbs that open cans of dog food, turn doorknobs and throw tennis balls!

Use them to your best advantage. If your dog wants to go out, ask her to sit before you open the door.

When she wants dinner, ask her to lie down to earn it.

Does she want to go for a walk?

If she’s jumping up on you with excitement, wait calmly until she sits.

Then clip on the leash and take your walk.

Your dog will happily work for everything she loves in life.

She can learn to do what you want in order to earn what she wants.

15/03/2020

Be A Good Leader: Part 1👇

Some people believe that the only way to transform a disobedient dog into a well-behaved one is to dominate her and show her who’s boss.

However, the “alpha dog” concept in dog training is based more on myth than on animal science.

More importantly, it leads misguided pet parents to use training techniques that aren’t safe, like the “alpha roll.”

Dogs who are forcibly rolled onto their backs and held down can become frightened and confused, and they’re sometimes driven to bite in self-defense.

14/03/2020

Control Consequences Effectively: 👇

CONSEQUENCES MUST BE IMMEDIATE:

Dogs live in the present.

Unlike us, they can’t make connections between events and experiences that are separated in time.

For your dog to connect something he or she does with the consequences of that behavior, the consequences must be immediate.

If you want to discourage your dog from doing something, you have to catch her with her paw in the proverbial cookie jar.

For example, if your dog gets too rough during play and mouths your arm, try saying “OUCH!” right at the moment you feel her teeth touch your skin.

Then abruptly end playtime.

The message is immediate and clear: Mouthing on people results in no more fun.

Rewards for good behavior must come right after that behavior has happened, too.

Say a child in a classroom answers a teacher’s question correctly, gets up from his desk, sharpens his pencil and then punches another kid in the arm on the way back to his seat.

Then the teacher says, “Good job, Billy!” and offers him a piece of candy.

What did Billy get the candy for?

Timing is crucial.

So be prepared to reward your dog with treats, praise, petting and play the instant she does something you like. 🙂

14/03/2020

If You Don’t Like the Behavior, Take Rewards Away: 💁‍♀️

The most important part of training your dog is teaching him or her that it pays to do things you like.

But your dog also needs to learn that it doesn’t pay to do things you don’t like.

Fortunately, discouraging unwanted behavior doesn’t have to involve pain or intimidation. You just need to make sure that the behavior you dislike doesn’t get rewarded.

Most of the time, dog motivations aren’t mysterious.

They simply do what works!

Dogs jump up on people, for example, because people pay attention to them as a result.

They can learn not to jump up if we ignore them when they jump up instead.

It can be as simple as turning away or staring at the sky when your dog jumps up to greet or play with you.

As soon as he or she sits, you can give him or her the attention they crave.

If you stick to this plan, your dog will learn two things at once.

Doing something you like (sitting)

reliably works to earn what she wants (attention),

and doing things you don’t like (jumping up)

always results in the loss of what she wants.

I hope this clears the air on this topic ❤️🐶

14/03/2020

Understand How Your Dog Learns: 🐕 ❤️

One of the most frequent complaints of pet parents is that their dogs “just won’t listen.”

But put yourself in your dog’s shoes for a moment.

If someone was constantly chattering away in a foreign language that you’d never heard before, how long would you pay attention?

Probably not for very long-because you simply wouldn’t be able to understand what the foreign speaker was trying to communicate.

To communicate clearly and consistently with your dog, you need to understand how he or she learns.

Dogs learn through the immediate consequences of their behavior.

The nature of those consequences determines how they’ll behave in the future.

Dogs, like other animals (people included), work to get good things and avoid bad things in life.

If a behavior results in something rewarding-like food, a good belly rub, playtime with dog buddies or a game of fetch with his or her pet parent, your dog will do that behavior more often.

On the other hand,

if a behavior results in an unpleasant consequence-like being ignored or losing things she finds rewarding-she’ll do that behavior less often.

Do good things with your dog and he or she will be good for you 🤗

13/03/2020

Welcome To The Page! We are So Excited To Expand The Relationship With The Furry Family Member! 😄

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13/03/2020

Who Says You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks? Part 3 🐶

Keep in mind that although the owner is the master, the dog still is an individual, as in it has its own personality; so a little give-and-take affiliation will not hurt.

The key is to enjoy the whole teaching-an-old-dog-new-tricks activity, as you build a better relationship with him or her.

That is the sole purpose of dog obedience training.

What you give is what you get; therefore being the educator, you are responsible for the way your pet responds.

Dogs are social creatures and are among the most loyal.

If you have a senior dog around who needs a bit of a push, do not fret; all you need is give your little furry friend some feisty motivation.

Whoever said you can't teach old dogs new tricks?

That saying is meant to be taken more literally to humans, for we've got a lot of habits that are harder to break. 😉

13/03/2020

Who Says You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks? Part 2 😃

It also involves recognizing the dog's previous training, then deciding on what certain applicable and viable changes are needed for a greater effect.

You highlight the dog after a day's work with plenty of rewards such as treats, and verbal praises such as patting him on the head for doing a good job.

Take it nice and easy, as not to shock and confuse the pet. It is necessary to change the behavior in small steps rather than a complete change all at one time.

However, there is a difference.

One has to put in mind that training an older dog is remembering that this dog has, most expected, to having been trained once.

This means that it has established thinking as to what acceptable behaviors are, and what behaviors are most not welcomed.

It takes a great deal of endurance to train an older dog and should be at the very least regular to receive the best outcome.

Have patience when training a dog old or young. The way they act is in direct proportion of how you treat them ❤️

(Part 3 coming soon!)

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