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Weimaraner Training Psychology

 Psychology of Weimaraner Training

Weimaraner training like all dog training, is a science, and because of that your dog obedience training is really made easy!

It’s essential for Weimaraner parents like you to know certain basic factors that determine your relationship with your Weimaraner, and can go a long way in training him effectively.

Before you begin training your Weimaraner, it is absolutely essential that you build a loving bond with him.

This is important as it helps you to understand his needs and instincts and also allows your Weimaraner to have complete trust in you.

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How To Bond With Your Weimaraner

Building a bond with your Weimaraner is the first and the most crucial step involved in Weimaraner training being successful.

As soon as you bring your Weimaraner home, you must first try to develop a caring and loving relationship with him in order to win his trust and confidence.

When Weimaraners are secure in the knowledge that they belong to the family, they are more likely to respond better to their owners’ training commands.

Just like with any relationship, there must be mutual trust and respect between you and your Weimaraner.

Trust takes time to develop, and respect comes from defining boundaries and treating any breach of those boundaries with firmness and fairness.

Without enforceable limitations, respect can’t be developed. And when there is no respect, building a bond with your Weimaraner is almost impossible.

4 Golden Rules for Building A Relationship

  1. Spend quality time together
  2. Take him out in the world and experience life together
  3. Establish and promote a level of mutual respect
  4. Develop a way of communicating to understand each other’s needs

Building a bond with your Weimaraner will not only help you manage him better but will also make your Weimaraner calm, quiet and an extremely well-adjusted pet.

Love Your Weimaraner and He Will Love You back

Once you’re successful in building a bond with your Weimaraner, you can rest assured that training him and teaching him new and clever tricks will be a cakewalk.

Bonding with your Weimaraner is easy when you use this training system.

How Your Weimaraner Learns…

Weimaraner training can be divided into five phases:

The Teaching Phase

This is the phase where you must physically demonstrate to your Weimaraner exactly what you want him to do.

 The Practicing Phase

Practice makes Perfect. Once a lesson is learned, practice with your Weimaraner what you have just taught him.

 The Generalizing Phase

Here you must continue practicing with your Weimaraner in different locations and in an environment with a few distractions. Take your Weimaraner out for a walk, or to a nearby park and command him to practice whatever you’ve taught him.

Practicing the learned lessons in multiple locations and in the presence of small distractions will help him learn and retain lessons better.

 The Testing Phase

Once you’re sure that your Weimaraner has achieved almost 90% success….he responds correctly almost every time you give a command, you must start testing his accuracy in newer locations with a lot of distractions.

Example: Take him to the local shopping mall and ask him to obey your command. He may not come up with the correct response the very first time you do this, but you must not lose hope.

The idea is to test your Weimaraner to see how he responds in an environment which is new to him.

Set-up a situation where you are in control of the environment and your Weimaraner.

There are only 2 possibilities:

Your Weimaraner succeeds!!! (Trumpets please!)

In case your Weimaraner fails, re-examine the situation. Review and/or change your training. Then try testing again. Keep on testing until he succeeds. Follow the rule of the 3 Ps – patience, persistence, praise.

Internalizing Phase

Finally, comes the extremely rewarding phase where your Weimaraner does everything he is taught to do even without your commands.

Remember:  Never scold your Weimaraner if he fails. It’s not his fault. You have failed as a trainer!  You must be patient and persistent for your efforts to show rewards.

Appreciate and love your Weimaraner when he does it right! A little encouragement will work wonders for your Weimaraner training.  Training your Weimaraner is easy when you do it right.

This guest article courtesy of TrainPetDog, Copyright(c) 2009 TrainPetDog.com

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