This valuable tips for dog lovers from the Google Knol by Brian Webbe gives you top 10 dog training mistakes to avoid.

Here is the summary:

1. Expecting too much, too soon: Understand that your dog will need time to learn. So be patient.
2. Introducing corrections too soon: If the dog fails to perform the command, many dog owners will issue a correction. This harms the progress of the dog.
3. Giving up: Dog training takes time, patience, and consistency. No dog is “untrainable”.
4. Inconsistency: When training a dog to behave in the manner you want, you need to make him consistently behave like that.
5. Reinforcing bad behavior: Affection is a reward. Whatever your dog is doing at the moment you reward (or correct) your dog is what he will associate that with.
6. Failure to practice: Since patience and consistency are the hallmarks of a good training program, dog training quickly can become tedious and boring.
7. Correcting for good behavior :When you reward or correct a dog, he will associate the reward or correction with the act that immediately preceeded it.
8. The wrong state of mind: Since you’re their pack leader, they take their cues from you. If you’re anxious, so are they. If you’re excited, so are they. If you’re calm and confident, so are they.
9. Not enough exercise: Walk your dog daily. This provides exercise and helps to establish and maintain your position as pack leader.
10. Not establishing dominance as the pack leader: In order to connect with them on their level, we need to understand the mechanics of dominance in the pack.

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