Training Your Poodle Is Easy

The Poodle is one of the most lovable dog breeds ever. They are cute to look at, bubbly in their nature and always eager to please their owners. This is one trait that makes Poodle obedience training a relatively easy exercise for most dog owners. The Poodle is a great companion dog but it tends to have socializing problems at times. Therefore, it is often advisable to have your Poodle enrolled in a training class instead of having the trainer come home for training. In this way, your dog will learn as a by-product to socialize as well both with animals and people.

Among the most common commands your Poodle should learn will be sit, come, down, stay, heel and the like. You can teach these basic obedience commands at home as well because the Poodle is an easily trainable dog. However, having a trainer do it will be faster and less cumbersome for you.
Teaching the command sit is the first and maybe the most basic of all the commands that any dog should learn under obedience training. The Poodle obedience training lists this command as the easiest to teach. Have a treat in your hand and the Poodle on its leash at least two feet in front of you. Show the dog that you have a treat in your hand and then lift your hand above its head and make a circle towards its tail.

As the dog will sit down following the trail of your hand, hand over the treat to the dog and praise it profusely. Keep doing this in batches of three to four continuous times with a break of two minutes or so in between when you can pet and praise your Poodle on how well it is doing. Remember, that all Poodles are extremely anxious to please and therefore showing and expressing your happiness in the achievement of your Poodle will be the greatest catalyst in its training.
There is a command that most Poodles find it hard to obey mostly because they are so bubbly in nature, the command down. This is a command under the Poodle obedience training that will help you control your dog’s effervescent behavior when you have guests or when you plan to introduce them to other smaller animals in your house such as cats.

Teaching the down command is little more difficult than teaching sit because you are teaching the dog to sit in a position it is not particularly comfortable. However, with the help of a few treats and plenty of praises you will get Poodle do exactly as you want in no time.

Have your Poodle in the sit position and then bring the hand with the treat to the floor in front of it, while with the other hand you softly push the dog to the floor from the shoulders. As soon as the dog reaches the down position, give it the treat and praise it sky high. Repeat until it learns over a few weeks.

Poodle training is moderately easy not because the dogs are keen learners but because they love to please. If you are looking for dog training books to train your Poodle, you will find this article very useful.

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