Simple tricks to train your dog.

Training Tricks

Teaching your dog tricks can help to develop a stronger relationship with him or her, it can also be good because it provides entertainment and involves the dogs mind, and can alleviate boredom in the dog.

One trick – the popular, “shake hands trick”, involves the dog raising its paw on command. Another clever trick is teaching the dog to ring a bell to go outside and this can be useful to help the dog owner to realise when the dog wants to go out. This can be very useful when house training your dog.

There are other less useful learned habits such as begging for dinner at the dinner table, the best advice is to ignore the dog and he or she will soon get the message to stop, this should not be encouraged as it could lead the dog to be territorial about food or even aggressive.