Top Reasons to Training Dog Tricks
Sit! Roll over! Jump! Teaching your dog tricks might not be the easiest thing in the world, but it’s highly beneficial to you and your dog. Teaching your dog tricks can help strengthen your relationship with your beloved pet in many ways. Below are some great reasons why you should start teaching your dog tricks.
1. Make everyone safe- While learning to teach your dog tricks, you learn many training techniques which can also be used to gain control over your dog. Teaching him basic tricks like sit and stay can also be used in life situations like crossing the street or entering a store.
2. Give Your Dog Something to Do- It doesn’t take long before your dog gets bored and decides to take on a new hobby of chewing anything in sight, including your brand new sofa. Teaching your dog tricks will keep him focused on the task at hand, and will entertain him for hours!
3. Help Keep Your Dog’s Mind Sharp- Training your dog will keep his mind active and responsive. As dogs get older they become less physically active, but learning tricks will keep his mind active and alert.
4. Help Create a Better Bond between You and Your Dog- Your dog will look up to you as being the pack leader, and will listen to you instead of trying to get your attention in destructive ways. Best of all, once your dog learns tricks you two become a team when training or performing.
5. Show Off- You can show off your dog if you teach it some cool tricks, and your dog will get people’s attention. Dogs love attention and they love being in the spotlight so they will like performing in front of your friends and family. Of course, you will also get the recognition of being a star trainer.
6. Make Vet Check Ups Easier- Both the veterinarian and you hate it when your dog can’t control itself during a check up. If you teach it to be calm during the check up, it will make both of your lives easier, and you won’t be embarrassed that your dog is acting up.
7. Gives Your Dog a Hobby- We all have hobbies we like to do such as watching TV or playing games, but dogs also need things to do. Training dog tricks is great to do on rainy days when you can’t take him for a walk.
If these reasons have inspired you to teach your dog tricks, then you’ve come to the right place. Dog Trick Academy and our community is devoted to help teach your dog tricks, we keep it fun and entertaining!
thanks so much, I agree with you one hundred percent. I have found one of the major benefits is it makes myself and the dog much happier. I will give you an example.There is a guy in my neighborhood that has an energetic dog, He is big and looks like a Pitbull on steroids because he is bigger then a pitbull. When this guy approaches you he gets so dramatic and tense, yelling at the dog and also at me, get your dog out of the way, I am coming, etc.
It is plain to see he does not enjoy this dog at all and the more nervouse and tense he gets the more the dog becomes excited. I have not seen the dog in two months so I am sure he must have dumped it. People love to use the excuse he was too wild or did not listen: they never blame themselves. If you have a dog that is well behaived and listens to you in a normal voice ( or with hand signals ) it is so much eaiser to walk and enjoy each others company. When I first got my dog Rock ( two weeks ago ) he was very aggressive and would lunge at any other dog he saw :also barking at people too. A 145 lb bullmastiff with the giant head and big jaws barking and snarling does not make neighbors too comfortable and also makes me uncomfortable and tense. I learned a bit about training before joining your web site so I have been working with him and he is doing much better now, we enjoy our walks he enjoys my company and I enjoy his. I do not think that would be the case if I was pulling and jerking on the leash all the time yelling at him to stop.
The other point I find is TRAINING IS SO EASY. IT TAKES ONLY 10 MINUTES A DAY. THAT IS A MUCH SHORTER TIME THAN YOU WOULD SPEND TRYING TO GET A WILD UNRULY DOG TO PAY ATTENTION ON A WALK.