Golden Retriever Training

After you bring a Golden Retriever home, training the Golden Retriever is the first responsibility that you are obliged to perform. Golden Retriever training is not an uphill task due to their intelligence, obedience, and eagerness to please the handler nature. To train a Golden Retriever the owner should first try to understand the basic traits of this type of dogs, such as their love to swim and jump. Goldens are kind, friendly, sociable, and active learners should be very clear in trainers mind.

The best time to start for Golden Retriever training is from around the age of 8 to 12 weeks. Training Golden Retriever can be a great time investment as they require lots of attention from your side. Making them comfortable to the new surrounding and teaching them some basic rules so that they grow up as obedient pets, are the two most important objectives of Golden Retriever training. Training also helps the Golden Retriever to differentiate between the acceptable and undesirable action.

To start with the training, you must first teach basic commands such as, sit, stay, lie, and heel to your Golden Retriever. In doing so, you must address your pet repeatedly by its name. This will help in establishing a relationship between you and your pet. Besides, these commands will also set the tone of the communication that you want to build with your Golden Retriever. The basic requirement for its training is that the trainer must have patience. The trainer should not be frustrated if in first few sessions Golden Retrievers do not pick up the training. The trainer must know that Golden Retriever is one of the most intelligent dog breeds and does not pose much problem in training.

Another thing that has to go with the Golden Retriever training is reward system. You must choose some tasty treat and reserve the treats for your Goldie while training. This motivates the dog towards the learning process. Even praising and affectionate words and action work as excellent rewards for the pet. The trainer must avoid giving harsh punishment and simply neglect the undesirable and bad habits. Remember, Golden Retrievers judge their actions on the response that they get from their trainers and like any other intelligent creature, good responses also encourage them.

The Golden Retrievers have a tendency to please their masters and respond to their commands in a very positive manner. Thus, when you start training a Golden Retriever, do it with ‘sit’ as the first command. Then, you can move to other commands like ‘stay’ and ‘come’. After your Golden Retriever learns these commands teach it to ‘heel’ and make it aware of the ‘no’ command. While training, the trainer should behave lovingly and make themselves more approachable. It is also recommended that training sessions should be short and regular because long sessions get your golden retriever bored.

Once you have taught them these basic commands, you can move on to teach them new commands and tricks. While training Golden Retrievers, it should be remembered that no harsh training methods including shouting, yelling, or berating need to be applied. As this behavior can make the dog stubborn and the training will become a tough job for you. Golden Retriever training should be conducted in such a way that it becomes a fun and pleasant experience for the trainer and trainee alike.