Training a Labrador Retriever can be a hard, and hair-pulling task sometimes, and most of the methods which people use are not very beneficial. Training your dog can be made so much easier when using some of these small, but essential ways to help with Labrador Retriever training. Here are my Labrador Retriever training tips:
Basics First
The basics of dog training are pretty obvious, and almost all dogs are smart at them. These basics include sitting down, giving paw, and lying down upon command.
Even though these are obvious, they should be mastered before attempting to train your Labrador Retriever any more methods or tricks. By master, I mean that they do complete the command every time it has been said without any difficulties whatsoever.
Slowly Lead To Harder Tasks
It would be great if you could train your dog to do all sorts of wonderful things straight away, but you can’t. You need to slowly introduce new training methods and techniques while dog training slowly, and gradually. After your dog has mastered something, slowly introduce another, and so on.
By doing this, you are not overloading your dog, and it will be more likely to learn a trained method or trick and remember it. You would be surprised by the large number of people who try to train their Labrador Retriever, and fail simply because they try to introduce way too many techniques at the one time.
Use Rewards as an Incentive
By rewarding your dog for completing a trick or method you have been training it, you are telling it ‘well done’, or ‘congratulations’. Your dog knows that it has done something good if you reward it, and will be much more likely to complete the method or trick again at a later date during Labrador training.
If you want to use incentives to their fullest extent, then in my opinion using edible treats or similar works best. However, you must not feed your dog these treats regularly, or casually unless it has completed something successfully to see the best results.
Facial Expressions Reward
When your Labrador Retriever completes a trick or method, it is again a good idea to show your dog that it has done something right. This can also be done by using facial expressions and even talking to your dog in a friendly way. Using this as a possible incentive is probably not as effective as using physical rewards such as the way I mentioned before this, but it is a must if you want your Labrador Retriever to respond well to your training.
As said in the last tip, this is a great way to encourage your dog to complete a method or trick trained by you at a later date. Hopefully, your dog will be expecting these kinds of rewards if it completes a method or trick at a later date.
Using these methods is a must in my opinion to succeed in Labrador Retriever training. Not only will they increase your chances of successfully training your dog a method or trick, but they will help show results in a much lower amount of time from when first starting to train your Labrador Retriever.