Rewarding your dog while performing dog training, is seen as the most effective method in this regard. Maybe this technique originates in those times when wolf puppies were trained into becoming more domestic animals.
It is wrong to consider that rewarding is a new technique approached in the modern dog training. Many people are tempted to believe this because this method started to be used and became popular only in the last 15 years. Up to those times, there were other techniques practiced into dog training, some of them being very cruel and violent.
Nowadays, there are many dog trainers and dog owners who are more excited about the rewarding method, rather than other forms, such as the leash and collar technique. Nevertheless, it seems that the best method that works in dog training is the one that combines leash-collar with rewarding method.
But most of the times, theory doesn’t find its reflection into practice, as it happens here with the dog training issue, as long as there are no two breeds alike. Dog owners should always keep this in mind before reaching to various techniques of dog training.
For instance, there are breeds to react positively to reward methods, while being non-responsive to the leash and collar thing. Other way around happens to another breed that might react positively to leash and collar dog training but not that good with the reward method.
The majority of the reward method dog trainings go for the food reward or other techniques that use rewards that are related to the aspect of receiving food. Most of the times, the complicated behaviors of certain breeds can be easily ‘tamed’ by using this rewarding method. Apart from this, you will notice that all the dog trainers who train dogs for cinematography practice this technique with very good results.
Another method for dog training that is used by various dog trainers and dog owners is the clicker method. In this sort of training technique, dogs are taught to associate the sound of a clicker or a whistle with a reward or something like a treat. When the dog performs a good deed, then the trainer will click or whistle and the dog will come to get his treat.
It is very important to use the instinct and the senses of your dog into dog training program as in this way he can get the desired behavior especially when this one is by nature a very complex one. Another good aspect here is that the dog training can be performed without needing to touch the pet dog as one can never k now of his unpredictable reactions.
Just consider that your dog is a creature that has his own feelings and expectations, therefore rewarding with something good will always work wonders on him. Not to mention that patting him and saying from time to time that he is a ‘good dog’ is a sign of affection through which every breed can be encouraged into a better behavior without using force.