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Dog Training: How To Make Dog Training A Family Affair (2)
Making dog training a family affair is a fun and rewarding experience for everyone. To start, you must commit to declaring the rules that will govern your dog's behavior, and let everyone know that these rules must be followed by everyone - because family-wide consistency is essential to achieve good results from training.
Establishing The Rules
Make sure everyone knows and follows the same rules with your dog, or your best-laid training plans will unravel. If one person allows the dog to jump on them or play rough games, for example, your dog will try these behaviors with other people. And when your family isn't consistent about keeping the rules, don't expect your dog to either!
The best time to establish rules is before you bring your puppy or adult dog home. That way, everyone can be consistent right from the start. Chances are pretty good, however, that if you're reading this article now, you probably already have your dog at home with you. So the best thing to do is to start right away  establish your Âgood dog rules today, make sure the whole family knows what they are, and have everyone agree to follow them, starting immediately.
Family Meeting Time
Call the whole family together to create a list of the important rules regarding the dog. Encourage each person, including the children, to offer ideas and describe how they'd like the dog to behave so everyone will feel included.
Discuss reasons for each rule you decide to implement so its importance is understood. Big rules  such as not feeding from the table or the types of play that will be allowed  must be the same for everyone.
Write down your list of agreed-upon rules and let the children illustrate the page by drawing pictures of your dog being good. The more personal involvement each family member has with the list of dog rules, the more likely everyone will be to abide by them. When your list is finished and illustrated, post it in a central location, such as the refrigerator, so no one forgets the rules (or pretends to).
I cannot stress enough just how important it is for your children (and everyone else in the house) to all have the same mindset and understanding of how you want your dog handled during training. In the next article we will discuss how to teach the rules, how to initiate training games, and how to keep training consistent  all of which will fail if you do not set the entire family on the same path.
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Dog's do not come into the world knowing polite manners, so don't expect your own family pet to abide by rules that it doesn't know yet. Training is a process that takes time and repetition. Both management and training will be necessary to keep your dog out of trouble while it's learning how to behave properly.
While teaching your dog good manners, you'll also need to find ways to prevent it from engaging in undesirable behaviors that might turn into bad habits.
If you let your untrained dog have free run of the house it will potty in all the wrong places, chew your belongings, steal unwatched food from tables and counters, pull curtains down, dig holes in the flower garden, and maybe run into the road. Dogs don't know any better than to do these things  until they're taught more appropriate actions.
Begin by limiting your dog's access to places where it might secretly misbehave. Don't allow him to have the full run of your home until it's completely housetrained and has learned what's appropriate to chew and what isn't. Keep the dog in the same room you're in, so you can watch it carefully and prevent messy, dangerous, costly mistakes.
One Labrador owner that I know came from a successful day of fishing, dropped a dozen mackerel she'd caught on the counter, then fed her young Lab and left the room to change her clothes. She returned five minutes later to discover that not only had her dog finished its kibble, it had also gobbled down all 12 fish!
A proactive approach will give your dog the opportunity to get used to your general household routine and to practice the good behaviors you are teaching it. If the dog tries to slip away when you get distracted, either block the room's doorways with baby gates or leash your dog to your belt to keep it with you. During times when no one is available to keep an eye on the dog, confine it in an enclosed puppy-proofed area either indoors or outdoors.
Keep Training Consistent
Training can be fun and fulfilling for the entire family or it can be fraught with frustration. Which way it goes depends upon how consistently you and your family keep the dog on track. The best way to be consistent is to decide on a set of rules everyone in the family can follow and get the family positively involved in your dog's training.
Raising a great canine family companion isn't a job for just one person. It takes a village  or at least a cooperative family  to raise and train a well-behaved dog.