It will be to your benefit to start using this command when your puppy is 7 weeks old. The earlier you start letting him know that when you say "come" and he does, life will be great. Always encourage your puppy to come with enthusiastic praise and lots of encouragement. Keep in mind that no two dogs or puppies are alike so you will have to adjust your training methods according to the individual. Which means what might have worked to motivate one dog may not work on another. Use your imagination, food treats or toys. Try to avoid calling him in a threatening tone. He may associate this with being scolded.
Training Tip:
If you are scolding your dog for not coming the first time he has been called, he may be associating your impatience with you losing your temper, which means coming to you is the last thing on his mind. If he begins to ignore you and act as if he does not hear you, attach a long leash to him so you have a way to reel him into you after you give him one command to "come." This way you are not repeating the command and your dog will learn to come when he is called (because he has no choice). Be enthusiastic!
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Using Gentle Methods by Andrea Arden
When teaching your dog to respond on cue, he learns the Antecedent (cue, request, or command) signals that a Consequence (reward) is likely to follow the appropriate Behavior. These are the ABCs of teaching, Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence.
The reward (consequence) causes the behavior to increase in frequency. For example, simply giving your dog a piece of kibble every time he sits quickly produces a "sit-happy" dog who sits more frequently. The reward also reinforces the association between the request and the response, such that the dog learns that sitting when requested often produces rewards. The dog also learns that sitting at other times does not necessarily produce rewards. Ultimately, the dog learns to want to sit on request.
The above training sequence represents an oversimplification of learning theory -- the science of dog training. Your dog is going to learn quickly if you present the ABCs.
The art of dog training, though, depends very much on the skill of predicting, or causing the behavior we are trying to put on cue and increase in frequency. For example, when we ask the dog to sit, how do we know that the dog will sit so that we can reward him for doing so?
How you go about this is the main determinant of the efficiency and effectiveness of training. Basically, there are just three techniques to predict or cause specific behaviors:
1. Luring behavior (lure/reward training).
2. Simply waiting for the behavior to happen on its own (reward training).
3. Physically prompting the behavior.
As a dog-friendly trainer you will primarily use numbers 1 and 2, gentle lure/reward and reward methods, to entice your dog to do things your way. Everyone, including children, can easily master these two quick and fun ways to train. On the other hand, physical prompting methods aren't appropriate for all dogs and all people. A child certainly should not be expected to physically prompt a dog to get him to obey. Even adults may be at risk if they resort to pushing and pulling some dogs.
The reward (consequence) causes the behavior to increase in frequency. For example, simply giving your dog a piece of kibble every time he sits quickly produces a "sit-happy" dog who sits more frequently. The reward also reinforces the association between the request and the response, such that the dog learns that sitting when requested often produces rewards. The dog also learns that sitting at other times does not necessarily produce rewards. Ultimately, the dog learns to want to sit on request.
The above training sequence represents an oversimplification of learning theory -- the science of dog training. Your dog is going to learn quickly if you present the ABCs.
The art of dog training, though, depends very much on the skill of predicting, or causing the behavior we are trying to put on cue and increase in frequency. For example, when we ask the dog to sit, how do we know that the dog will sit so that we can reward him for doing so?
How you go about this is the main determinant of the efficiency and effectiveness of training. Basically, there are just three techniques to predict or cause specific behaviors:
1. Luring behavior (lure/reward training).
2. Simply waiting for the behavior to happen on its own (reward training).
3. Physically prompting the behavior.
As a dog-friendly trainer you will primarily use numbers 1 and 2, gentle lure/reward and reward methods, to entice your dog to do things your way. Everyone, including children, can easily master these two quick and fun ways to train. On the other hand, physical prompting methods aren't appropriate for all dogs and all people. A child certainly should not be expected to physically prompt a dog to get him to obey. Even adults may be at risk if they resort to pushing and pulling some dogs.
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