How Often and How Long Should you Train Your Dog?
lots of people wonder how often they
should train their dogs and how long
each training session should laugh but
the answer isn’t quite so
black-and-white what’s black and white
and cute all over it’s you today Ollie
and I are going to shed some light on
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training your dog you have to have an
amazing currency for them so you barn
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before I answer how often you should
train your dog there’s some things you
need to understand whoa don’t fall
romley speakings are two main types of
training sessions primary and secondary
session for a primary training session
you should be completely focused on your
dog and work on teaching them something
like sit lie down or stay for example
four primary training sessions you
should use really good treats for your
dog something like real chicken or real
high-end dog treats and these turkey
treats that I’m using today from opened
for more fantastic because they break up
just perfectly so that I can get a lots
of use out of them the trick is your dog
needs to love the tree not just like it
these training sessions can last
anywhere between a few seconds and 30 or
40 minutes depending on what you’re
teaching of course your dog is going to
have some say and how long these
training sessions last – if you’re a
beginner and you don’t have a lot of
experience teaching dogs it’s a good
idea to focus on primary training for 10
minutes at a time as a general rule of
thumb and do this very very often
throughout the
with a heavy emphasis on practicing in
lots of different environments over time
so I’m going to give Ollie my full
attention and we’re going to see if we
can get them rolling over
so first we’ll need to get them into a
Down which he’s excelling at doing a
great job now I’m going to focus on
luring him into a standard rollover but
again I’m not being passive here I’m not
asking him to do it in a crazy
environment I’m just introducing the
concept to him macadam he’s a little
reluctant weight and you can see right
there there’s a little bit of
frustration settling in because he’s
like what you want me to do so let me
just check here to make sure that he’s
still pretty willing good I can get his
attention on me and I’m going to reward
him for that just to find reasons to
reward him to keep it motivated here you
need to know your dog and being able to
read their signs of frustration and also
learning to read your signs of
frustration is really important it’s
best to end a training session before
that occurs let’s try the other way
maybe he’s more comfortable doing that
good come on lay down good job there it
is yeah that’s called a rollover if I’ve
ever seen one you can see how you have
to be hyper focus on your dog during
these primary training sessions he’s
starting to get it wouldn’t you say that
was a beautiful rollover sir primary
training sessions are great for laying
really good groundwork with your dog but
secondary training sessions that’s where
the real magic happen secondary training
sessions are a little bit less intuitive
at first but you’ll quickly find out why
they’re absolutely mandatory and why
they’ll make you a better trainer a
secondary training session is more of an
impromptu training lesson that you jump
into whenever a real-life training
opportunity presents itself for example
you know how sometimes you put fried
chicken on the floor like you do and
then you forget about it
and then your dog is left with this
amazing temptation while your attention
is elsewhere that’s when we stop what
we’re doing intervening to get an
attention on us and then show them what
we prefer he do instead it’s as the
primary training sessions give your dog
some foundation but secondary training
sessions or would allow you to introduce
context so that your dog understands how
to behave in a multitude of scenarios if
your dog has a habit of jumping on
furniture like Ali does redirecting can
be a fabulous way to show them how you
prefer they behave look at that
the common question I get here is aren’t
you rewarding the dog for jumping on the
furniture but did you notice what I did
at the end he was up here I redirected
him over here to pay attention to me
asked him to sit he did so and I
rewarded him for that so I was actually
rewarding for paying attention to me and
sitting he might be about to okay see
right there there’s just redirect him
over here come on over here buddy over
here if you come over here you’ll get
rewarded now will you pay attention to
me
sit nice four and let’s do a little bit
of proofing let me put a treat up here
and see if that tempts him to get up
there be clear this isn’t something you
do five or six times as you can see you
have to keep doing it in order for your
dog to really understand now it might be
tempting to just pull them down or pick
them up and put them down but honestly
you’re not really motivating your dog to
learn if you do that and this is just
part of having a puppy collie
you’re a mess buddy looks like we have a
new host let’s go this way
good very good work and of course you
know redirecting combined with doing a
good job of controlling your dog’s
environment is the path to really get
some traction on most of your beginner
trainings you can all these good treats
come on not ready to quite abandon it
he’s like I haven’t forgotten about
those let’s see right here this is how
you really teach your dog to think here
you can see how he’s going back and
forth between the treats got planted up
there and the treats that I’m at I’ll
bring them over here yes sit stay good
work very good and it might seem a
little mean to put treats up on the
furniture it’s better to set up those
training sessions sometimes too than it
is to just wait for them to occur of
course that would be more of a primary
training session than the secondary one
but over here yeah I
yes fit look at me good work really
prioritize getting good at redirecting
your dog because it’s one of the most
powerful ways to guide your dog in
spontaneous real-life situations however
if you find yourself redirecting your
dog constantly this likely means that
you’re not optimally controlling the
environment
now since secondary training sessions
are a bit more spontaneous
you should have treats scattered all
around the house and containers like
this at all times so that you can easily
get to them when you need to get to
treats quickly
these treats should be soft and very
tasty and keep well at room temperature
the reason is secondary training
sessions often require you to first into
training mode and you need to have your
dog’s currency quickly available the
bottom line is if you have a dog
especially a puppy like Olli virtually
all of the time that you do have
available with them should be dedicated
to some type of training job see that
he’s starting to jump on me I jumped
into training mode redirected them into
a sit how about we get a lie down – and
a stay look at me
yes good work so maybe that’s teaching
your dog how to mellow out and go to
sleep while you’re just on the internet
or teaching them how to stay when you
spontaneously throw a toy in front of
them to prepare them for future
distraction training now my book playing
with your dog definitely counts as
quality training time because it’s
teaching them one of the most valuable
lessons of all how to focus on you and
engage with you and that is my absolute
favorite type of training if you’re
wondering how many things can you teach
your dog at one time I’m going to have a
link in the description with Louie the
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and that
should answer your question thoroughly
click thumbs up for ollie the collie I
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what an awesome dog you are
