Training for your golden retriever

Training is very important to your golden retriever. Golden Retrievers are intelligent dogs and are fast learners. With a little patience and time, your Golden Retriever can be the cutest pet around.

Listed here are the most popular methods that would provide training for your golden retriever.

Behavior training

Behavior training helps your dog behave in an appropriate and desirable manner. You have to decide the general behavior patterns that you would like your dog to follow and help him develop them.

This training includes good practices at home, decent behavior around people and pets, leash training, and other types of training that will make you a good companion to be around. Below are certain behavioral trainings for your Golden Retriever:

a) Teeth training – As your puppy chews on everything around him, it is important to teach your golden retriever his teeth. There are several chew toys available. You may want to have a few ready and hand them over to your dorado. Once you’re done with one, or bored with one, you can introduce him to the other. In this way, you can curb your natural instinct to chew and take care of your teething problem as well. However, you must be careful when picking up the chew toy. If you buy a particularly smaller one, your golden retriever may try to swallow it and choke.

b) Leash Training – If you want to leash your pet, you need to train your golden retriever. It may not be wise to strap on your Golden Retriever and drag it around. Being a little nice to your golden retriever would help in this situation. You can fasten the leash and give you enough freedom inside the house or in your garden. Be a little vigilant. It will take some time for your golden retriever to get used to the leash. After he’s gotten used to it a bit, pick up the leash and start calling out to him. This way, your golden retriever can train on a leash, without much trouble.

c) Digging – Well this is the nature of dogs in general and you would have to train your golden retriever to handle this natural instinct as well. If you try to control this natural habit, it may not help. Therefore, provide your golden retriever with an area to dig. And congratulate him when he excavates the area. Or reprimand him if he tries to dig in another area. Soon your golden retriever will understand.

Activity training

This is a very beneficial type of training for your golden retriever. This would include activities such as search and rescue, hunting, herding, and other similar activities that golden retrievers must perform. These activities would help build a better relationship between you and your golden retriever.

Obedience training

This is also very important training for your golden retriever. It teaches the golden retriever to obey orders. Golden retrievers who undergo this training learn not to bark for no reason, not to dig anywhere, and generally perform better than most other dogs.

While your golden retriever may need a combination of all of the above training methods, you must select the requirements for your pet and decide what is the best training for your golden retriever. Now, haven’t you chosen this dog to be an adorable companion for you?