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We have created this website to provide information and advice about dog training. It is our hope that you will learn something about training your dog which will in-turn give you and your dog a happier and healthy life.
We are not hear to give you strict “This is the way to train your dog” lectures, because every dog is different and every dog owner is also different, we aim to be informative and fun. And help to guild you towards finding a dog training method that is right for you.

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Your dog is basically a wolf you have allowed into your home, to be a friend, companion, guard or workmate. Wolves were thought to be first domesticated around 16000 years ago in china; and overtime have been changed by human using selective breading into the animals we call a dog today. The wolf is at its core, a pack animal (relying on other group members for its survival). For you and your dog are to develop a full relationship, it is important that you take on the role of pack leader. As the pack leader your dog will look to you for when and what it can do; like when it can eat, where it will go and when, when it can play and so on. If you can take on the role as pack leader your dog will be more content and happier with their place in the pack (family).

Now that we understand that the dog is a wolf in disguise, it is now important to realise that your dogs mind is not the same as yours, and therefore dogs do not thinks the same way that humans do. It is a mistake to think that any dog has the same feelings and emotions that humans do; but is also important to remember that dog do share some felling and needs with us. As a pack animal, dogs are social, intelligent and develop their own individual and unique personality. Dogs thrive on companionship with humans and other dogs and respond well to positive reward and leadership. Remember too that each bread of dog is also different and will respond differently to training. For more information take a look at our Bread specific training page.

Dog training fall into two different camps; Dominance training and leadership training.

Dominance Training

Because dog descend from wolves, and wolfs live in packs lead by a dominant (alpha) male and female; that use confrontation and aggression to keep control of the pack and get their first pick of the food, shelter, females and so on.
Traditional Dominance dog training has taken this alpha/dominance theory and applied it to dog training. Methods that include using pinch collars, choke chains and even electronic shock collars to punish wrong behaviour. With dominance dog training it is/was important to dominate the dog by use of force (and sometimes even violence) to change behaviour. Today you will find dog training techniques and methods that use to different amounts of alpha/dominance theory in there training methods. But there seems to be a few problems with the alpha/dominance theory. Firstly and most importantly is that Dogs are not wolves! They may have been originated of wolves but they are now far removed from wolves. The outward appearance of the domesticated wolf has changed into what we call a dog, and so has the domesticated wolfs brain

The wolf we call a dog today is far removed from the wild wolf. The under lying behaviour might be something we could recognize as “wolf like” but it would be a mistake to think that a dog is simply a wolf in dogs clothing.

Any relationship based on aggression and dominance is one the pack leader has to continually reinforce dominance. This might be workable when you are big and strong, but problem might arise if the owner is a child or an infirm adult and risk injury if trying to dominate a large or aggressive dog. Although dominance can be achieved though dominance it can also be obtained through reward.

None-Dominance Training

Reward for appropriate behaviour removes the need to continually reinforce dominance; reward is give only for the correct behaviour (like siting, coming to you or getting off furniture on command) and removed until the correct behaviour is displayed, and removed for incorrect behaviour.
With none-dominance training the owner must reward correct behaviour as soon as the dog doses what is required. If you what to train you dog to sit on command and the dog or puppy has never been taught to sit, you start off by rewarding behaviour that is similar to sitting. By this I mean, as soon as your dog sits without being asked to do so, you would say “sit” followed by “good dog” and immediacy give a reward; if you do this whenever you see the dog sit and you will soon be able reverse waiting for you dog to sit and have your dog sit on your command. This is the basics of none-dominance training, you can apply the same technique to most of your dog training.