Beagle Obedience Training

 Teaching Beagle Obedience

Beagle obedience training often proceeds at a slower pace than that for most dog breeds because beagles have special temperaments.

Beagles are known to have one tract minds and are easily distracted during training sessions. To get the most out of your training sessions be sure to keep them brief and in an area where there is little distraction.

Teaching Basic Commands

When starting to teach basic commands here are some guidelines that must be followed:

1. Be consistent in your wording of the commands, use the word come, not come here or here.

2. Be consistent in your tone of voice. It is important to be firm but not intimidating

3. Reward must come immediately, within seconds if the dog is to associate the reward with following the command correctly.

4. Never use a command when you cannot immediately reward or punish the behavior. If you cannot follow through after giving a command to your beagle then donÕt give it.

5. Make sure everyone in your family is consistent with the commands that they are giving. If there are four people telling the dog to all do something else, the dog will not learn as quickly and everyone will get frustrated.

6. Remember that beagles love to please the pack leader which is you. They can only please you if they know exactly what to do,

Start by teaching the basic sit command first since this is the most basic. Also when you have the sit command mastered you can use it along with other commands and situations.

For example if your beagle jumps on people training them to sit when meeting new people is a great way to solve this behavior problem.

Once you have the sit command mastered move onto the come command and then the stay command. Try to only teach one command at a time until the dog has that command mastered.

Keep training sessions short and too the point puppies and even adult beagles have very short attention spans, so have several small training sessions through out the day.

Beagles are great fun and probably the most congenial of all the dog breeds by teaching them these commands you are making their lives so much better. Dog love routines, so provide on in which it is clear to them what they have to do in order to get rewarded.

Remember to have lots of patience and never physically hit your dog while doing beagle obedience training.