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German Shepherd Owner learn How To Solve Her Dog Behavior Problem, In Just Four Weeks.

Understanding your dog behavior

After receiving emails asking me this question I decided to write about it. This is a very common question in the dog training business today!

Should I train my dog with an expert in the breed?

Let’s look at a few good reasons why.

Because they specialize in training that one breed of dog. They are known to be an expert in all areas of training and behavior modification, obedience training, and training personal protection dogs.

They know the breed better than just a general dog trainer.

Now, Ashley could have just higher a dog trainer that works with all breeds too.

There are a lot of great dog trainers out there.

But some people just want to train their dogs with an expert in one breed. And,

there’s nothing wrong with that.

Today training is all about Asley and Duke’s story.

When Ashley contact me for help she asks me if I had experience with training German Shepherds.

I told her that GSD  Breed was my favorite breed of dog, that I own for over 20 years.

You made the right decision to find a trainer that works with the breed you own.

Ashley rescue a German Shepherd named Duke when he was 14 months old. She did her best with training Duke in obedience and did a great job.

Now that Duke is Three-year-old, she has noticed a problem with him developing over playing ball with him. She tried to fix it herself but it just was getting more out of control.

The problem was when she would take out the ball, Duke became very dominant over her. Owning a high prey driven dog can be challenging for a lot of people.

This is a very common behavior with high driven working dogs, and new German Shepherd owners.

If you’re going to own a working blood-line Gsd, you need to be the dominant one. Training is a must.

Three-year-old German Shepherd. This is just a short clip of the video teaching Duke how to drop the ball.

The problem was he did not understand how to play fetch because he just got too excited when Ashley brought the ball out to play.

What Ashley needed to learn when using an e-collar to solve Duke’s behavior with the ball.

Now, I want you to know you don’t need to use an e-collar to solve this behavior with a dog. But Duke was very dominant when he sees the ball, the e-collar just makes it easier for teaching a new German Shepherd owner how to deal with this type of behavior.

Video one:

When you see Ashley call Duke back with the ball she is giving a quick tab with the e-collar using the nick button, at a low level when she gives him the command to drop it. Then you will see how she rewards Duke. If you use an e-collar for training always work with low levels with your dog to build great attention with your dog.

Video Two with Duke: Working him off-leash,
Today I’m happy to share part two of Ashely and Duke training with you. In today’s video with are teaching Duke that he needs to learn to ignore his toy until we give him permission to retrieve it.

This is the other half of the training to fixing this behavior. You must do both if you want to gain leadership.

 

Repeat this a few times, then toss the object a short distance. When he goes for it, immediately reward him again. Ps: when you rescue a dog they all have some type of behavior problem. Some have more than others.

I love to hear from you in the comments below.

Do you own a German Shepherd? If yes, what kind of training are you teaching him, or her?

Do you agree about training your dog with an expert in the breed?

I read and answer all comments.

Thanks, Dennis.

 

 

 

 

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