Training essentials
The fundamentals
They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but dogs are lifelong learners, so its never too late to start building good habits!
Because dogs are always learning, teaching a dog that certain behaviour results in good things happening means they’ll be more likely to behave that way again. Training your dog can also prevent unwanted behaviour problems developing in the future.
Before you get ready to bring your pooch to work with you, make sure they have mastered the fundamentals of basic dog training to make their experience in the workplace as positive and relaxed as possible.
Let’s get bark to basics!
Best behaviours
Puppies are not born knowing which behaviours are okay from our point of view, and which are not, so although we might think our dogs are behaving 'badly', they can’t misbehave deliberately, and doing things just to spite us is just not possible for dogs!
Barking at people walking past the window, digging up the garden, eating food rubbish out of the bin, running off with and chewing our slippers or going to the toilet in the house are all examples of behaviours we might not be happy about, and yet these actions – barking, digging, scavenging, chewing, toileting - are all normal dog behaviours.
It’s important that we help them to learn when we’re happy for them to do certain things, and when we’re not, otherwise they have no way of knowing what we expect from them!
