How do you gain your dog’s obedience and loyalty?

love care respect for the dog and lots of training also done with love and care

I don't have a dog but if I did I suppose it would be through love.

By offering firm, fair and consistent leadership training and exercise, not through bribery with crap treats full of the wrong things.I also feed my dogs as dogs were meant to be fed - with raw meat. - - not with tins of dog foods consisting mainly of water or dried foods consisting of corn.

Firstly, you shouldn't have to give treats to gain a dogs obedience & or loyalty, the vast majority of dogs want to learn and don't need food to do this, I started going to an obedience class once with one of my GSD's, just about everyone there was using sausages/liver cake/cat biscuits etc etc, the look I got because I didn't use these was unbelievable, I had to stop going in the end as it wasn't fair on my dog with all these delicious smells distracting her, so in my case it had the opposite effect. To gain a dogs obedience requires firmness coupled with kindness and knowing when to give up for the day, ie. when your dog has had enough, 10-20 minutes a day should be enough, and plenty of play afterwards to enable your dog to 'wind down', don't forget to give the dog a walk (not hard panting type walk) before starting obedience Loyalty comes with the obedience.

Without trust and love a dog will never become obedient and loyal. From the day that your puppy arrives, it must be demonstrated to him that he can trust you. A puppy should not be left to scream alone when it has just lost its mother and litter mates. He should be acclimatised to being in his own bed in a gentle and kind manner to ensure that he has no reason to cry and as consequence he will not develop Separation Anxiety. My dogs have never screamed for attention and I have had sixteen dogs.A puppy has no knowledge of any language; consequently commands must be calm and consistent. A puppy should be praised when it makes even the slightest effort to please you and the only rebuke should be to withhold praise. Neither a puppy nor a mature dog should be left alone to wallow in misery and boredom, toys do not compensate. People need to work, however they do not need a dog. Unfortunately their dog needs them. Their dog should have a LONG walk before they go to work and if they cannot get home at lunchtime they must provide professional walkers or use a day creche. If they cannot provide this, their dog will not be loyal and obedient. It will become a miserable and aggressive hooligan.A puppy must be socialised from day one and gradually introduced to noises and anything that could frighten it. He should be taken to the school gates to get used to children, walked amongst crowds and taken to puppy classes. You should examine every part of the puppy on a regular basis and get other people to do this. Then when your puppy needs to be examined by the vet it will not be concerned.You should pretend to cut their nails so they have no fear of the clippers. Put them into the bath without actually bathing them. Clean their ears when they don’t need cleaning to enable you to do this when necessary. They should be taught to open their mouths in the event that they might need tablets. They should be given water in a syringe so that they will be happy to take medication.Training should never be harsh or prolonged and the session should end with success. Training is an extension of their play and it must always be fun. I have competed successfully in Agility; I do Obedience training and Heelwork to music. However the prelude to this and to gain a dog’s loyalty and obedience involves much more.

food is the way to mine's heart.xox

Regular beatings with a large sack of pedigree biscuits, and if they really misbehave i make them eat the food. When they see a bag of pedigree, they run screaming.

Obedience though gaining & giving respect and with training Loyalty (although yes I agree with the majority that dogs don't have the concept) can only be through love, respect & a good bond in both directions ADD: I'm with DeeDawg, (Like it!)No disrespect but if you guys put as much cash into making a good product (With no corn, no corn gluten meal, no meat & bone MEAL (which we all well know is the bits that are thrown away) no animal by-products, no BHA or BHT (carcinogenic chemical preservatives) no wheat flour & no beet pulp) as you do into advertising then I would buy it, or I might have done before changing to a B.A.R.F diet)

By being firm but, more importantly, fair.You can scare a dog into obeying you (traditional dog training) or you can have your dog WANT to be around you. Those who rubbish reward-based training simply do not understand the laws of learning, which is a shame, as this is the building block for obedience.Dogs, like humans, will not work for free. Why should they? They will work if their only alternative is something horrible, but this isn't loyalty.The best trained dogs are those who actually like their owners, because they know they will not hurt them. The owners need to find out what makes their individual dog tick and how to get the best out of them. The owner who cares about their dog's feelings has a far better relationship with their dog than the owner who expects the world from their dog but can't be bothered to give much back.

Loyalty comes naturally provided you are constant in your responses. Dogs expect a pack hierachy. If a dog is disloyal then there is something going wrong (someone is training it differently behind the scene maybe) or sadly being unkind and inconstant.Obedience comes as the dog gets to learn words. If you want to go as far as train it you use a reward system. The reward can be tactile, you make a fuss of it or it can be food/treat based like Pavlov's dogs. To be efficient a training regime has to be constant ie same reward for a constant stimulus. Don't change the command words 'heel' one day, 'here' the next 'come' the day after. In a family setting everyone must sing from the same song sheet.However dogs aren't thick and it is amazing what they learn given enough time. They learn 'walk', 'W.A.L.K.,' (ie spelt out) 'go' . Basically they learn whatever is useful to them.

I dont know much about dogs but we have one which is a cross of alsatian/collie. Both me and my wife take very good care of him and take him for walks. Sometimes I notice when my wife gives him his dish of Pedigree chum...he walks away from it and I just cant understand.I put his lead on and take him to a big field and let him have a good run about then when I bring him back home,he goes straight to dish of Pedigree chum and eats every bit of it up.Actually obedience and loyalty is gained when they are pups and the nature of their parents. When a pup is taken away from it's mother.....a human has to become a surrogate mother and teach it right from wrong and if it's weaned on Pedigre Chum...it wont want to eat anything else.

The first thing you do is establish yourself as the pack leader. The best way to start is with long, at least 45 minute, daily walks. As the pack leader you will already have gained your dog's loyalty as they are pack animals and need a leader. The walks also tire the animal and take away any pent up exuberance, this will make the dog easier to start training. You have to be patient, consistent and remain cool and calm all the time. If you tend to get frustrated or angry then you will lose the respect of the dog and he/she will then assume you are incapable of leading. This means the dog will then try to establish the pack leader role and your problems are just beginning. If you have no experience with obediance training then join a respectable training programme.

With lots of love, you can get obedience and loyalty from a cat or a dog. I give my pets lots of love and I care for them and they give me back, obedience and loyalty!

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