The day my friend asked me to train his older black lab was the day the battle began. I told him, "Yeah man I can train any dog!" So I began with getting to the know the dog a bit. I noticed that the dog was very hard on listening and basically did whatever it wanted. Dolly (the black lab dog) had an  attitude like I had never seen before in my life.  I couldn't understand how a dog that was so well trained on "come" and being potty trained, mis-behaved so much with everything else.
    
     I tried to think of what to start with and I figured trying to teach Dolly to "sit." The whole process took me around 5 days, which I found very long for one of my average dogs. By the way, I don't consider myself to an expert trainer, but I do train a couple dogs here and there. My training basically spreads by word of mouth and that is it. So the sit was taught just like any other sit, of just sort of using treats to make the dog want to sit after physically showing her what sit actually was.

     Next, it was obvious that she needed to be taught not to bark whenever she WANTED something because it was driving her family insane. The fact that she barked very loudly whenever she wanted, was enough to drive anyone out of this world. This was tough for me to think of how to teach her to not do this. I basically tried to train her to stop while in the act . Once she started barking I would just yell over her and say, "No, Dolly!" It was that or telling her to "be quite." I'm not sure if that was the correct way of going about it, but the fact of the matter was it worked. Thank god dogs are so smart, or else my possible wrong method of training would not of worked.

     The occasional potty accidents in the basement while no one was home needed to end. I had no idea of going about this either. The only method I could think of was to drag her down there by the collar and show her what she did was wrong. And by doing this, I showed her by pointing her head at the poop and saying, "No." It was basically me showing her that what "she layed" on the floor was not alright. This worked as well. I was quite amazed by myself but not too amazed because I was unsure of what I was doing was the correct thing to do at all times.

     Dolly turned out to be a pretty well trained dog by the end of my training. I do not by all means proclaim to be a dog trainer, but what I do works for the dog. I just try to keep physical abuse out of training as much as possible and just use my head as to what would work the best for the dog to understand. This may sound dumb, but I put myself in the dogs shoes and wonder what it would take for me to learn what it was if I were a dog.

Please bare with me on my grammar and such, but I hope to get my point across as well as I can cause I feel
like sharing my canine to human bond here. To start it off, I will start with telling you that I am a young teenager in college and somewhat made the mistake of getting a puggle that I most likely shouldn't have.

I know that is wrong,but don't worry too much because I have all the love in the world and money to give the
puppy the proper life it needs to be happy. When I say I shouldn't have gotten it, I mean for myself basically.
I am in college and shouldbe applying myself to it to the full potental. Any how LETS START WITH MY LIST OF EVENTS.

     1. First night with the puppy
This was the largest wake up call for me in a while. Sam (the new puggle puppy) cried all night and my roommates didn't appreciate the idea of this. I later read that is a common act of puppies for that first night away from their mother, but I really didn't grasp the idea of it until I was involved hands on. This scarred me in the idea if I could handle this or not.

     2. The potty accidents COMMENCE
Cleaning up urine and poo on my beautiful carpet became a ritual I began to love...! I guess it is somewhat like
having a child in a way. This wasn't a deal breaker for me but I began to realize what the smell of poop really was like.

      3. Mood Jumps
One minute the puppy would sleep for hours then the next it would be crawling on the walls like spiderman. It was
for sure a lot for me to handle while trying to live my everyday life but my friends and I found it somewhat fun at times. There really wasn't much I could do about this but give her exercise, and that's what I did. Three walks a day
really calmed her down, but there is only so much you can do to where it matters. They will be hyper.

    4. Worms !!
So the first accident in weeks happens to be crawling with worms. Even though the buyer told me she had "everything taken care of." It though was not completely taken care of. I then took care of the worms but then began to feel bad how she couldn't control herself from pooping in the apartment. She felt so bad that it was horrible to see her feel so let down. I then knew that her potty training was now complete and we have made perfect progress.

     5. Overall Experience
To be honest, training a dog to even be "house broken" which is pretty much the bare minimum of what a dog needs to be trained is sooooo hard! I do not advice any young teenager to go buy a puppy or frankly any dog if your not ready for it or have the environment for it. It is not for the light hearted and that should be known. I wish I could scream it to the world for all people that are not ready for it. But then again you have to remember that I gave a dog a great life to live in even though it was hard for me. It is another dog that is not put down at the humane society cause no one wants it.

Learning how to train a dog can be a challenge. However, I know how to train a dog, and well trained dogs are easier to care for and love, they cause less damage to your home ,and live happier lives.

I used to raise Rottweiler dogs, and training the parents was a challenge, but I had to train the puppies also. Learning how to train a dog is easier than you may think. It takes a lot of persistence and patients when learning how to train a dog, but it gets easier as time goes by and the dog learns the things you are training them.

When you buy a dog, you need to know how to train a dog and what to train a dog. There is a variety of things you need to train your new dog such as, basic tricks like sitting and staying. These things may sound simple to do, but you have to know how to train a dog.

I learned how to train a dog how to sit easily and fast. The first thing you do to teach your to sit is gently push the dogs behind down to get them into a sitting position, while saying “sit girl, sit” and when she sits t you give her a treat.

Then as time goes by and you keep doing this, you will eventually be able to just say the words “sit girl, sit” and she will sit, and you will have learned how to train a dog to sit, and your dog will have learned how to sit.

Next, how to train a dog to stay, if you have not trained your dog how to sit it will be harder to teach your dog to stay. I learned how to train a dog to stay by first training them how to sit.

Once they know how to sit you repeat the same technique that taught them to stay only you just continue to say “sit girl, sit, stay , stay”, then walk with a treat in your hand backwards about four steps, then say “come girl” and she will come get the treat. If she comes to you before you tell her to come you just keep working on saying “sit girl sit, stay, stay”  and then “come” and eventually you will teach your dog how to sit, stay and come.