Tip 1. Know What Your Dog Wants

 It is really important to know the character of your dog in order to achieve the very best from your training. There are many excellent but varied methods of training dogs available today but until you know exactly what is going to turn your dog on..... you will struggle to achieve.

Ask yourself the following questions:
Is my dog really appreciative of his food?
If the answer is “yes” then tit-bit reward training would be a good method.

Does my dog love a game with his toys?

If he does, then try some toy reward based training.

Is my dog so into pleasing me he doesn’t need anything other than a kind word and a hug?

This is the ideal but very few dogs will work for love alone. Humans go to work for payment and most of our dogs appreciate payment as well.

Have you observed any “Clicker” training? Look into different methods and try to put the very best method to your individual dog.

No one method will work for every dog. Do be prepared to give a method a fair chance before changing to another method. Too much changing will result in a very confused dog.

Tip 2. Select The Correct Training Time

Never train your dog when it is tired. Never train your dog when it has recently been fed, especially if you are using food reward training. If your dog is very exuberant, give him a short walk before beginning training.

Tip 3. Tit Bit Reward Training
If you are to use Tit-bit reward training it is vital that you choose high quality tit-bits. Your dog may love a dry biscuit. You may love boiled egg and soldiers. Have you ever gone out to dine and ordered boiled egg and soldiers?

People can be lazy and prefer offering a biscuit rather than really treating their dog to a tasty morsel which it will only get when responding to training.

Tip 4. Treats To Try
Hot Dog Sausages. Open a tin or bottle. Add a little garlic. Chop into pieces and use as rewards.

Liver Cake

INGREDIENTS:

1 lb. Self-raising flour.

1 lb. Liver.

2 Eggs.

2 teaspoons of Garlic Powder.

1 cup of milk.Water to mix.

Put the liver, eggs and garlic through a blender until smooth.  Gradually add the flour and milk, and then top up with water until you have a sponge-like consistency.  Put the mixture into a flat baking tray and place in a pre-heated oven at 200 degrees.  Cook until no liquid remains when tested with a needle or fork (roughly 30-60 minutes), depending on the depth of the tray.  Cool it off, before cutting into cubes, bagging it up and freezing it in separate packages.  You should have enough tit-bits to last you for weeks.

Or

Tuna Cake Microwave Option

3 eggs
Plain flour
Garlic
Tin tuna with sunflower oil (not brine)
 
Mix tuna, garlic, eggs in a bowl and add flour till you get a paste consistency.
Put in microwave and cook for appox 7 mins.

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