Dog Training Book

by Tricia Wang 王圣捷

Some believe that when a dog gets to be a certain age that it has become to late to teach him proper behavior. These beliefs are false. Sure, it may be true that training a pup might be a little easier, but training an older dog can sure be done.

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Many times you will have some knowledge of the older dog that you want to train. In the case that your dog is a stray his background will be unknown. Therefore,if you know very little of your dogs past you will need to approach the training with a kind spirit.

Below you will find a few tips to help with your older dog and a few of these tips will prove useful in training a pup.

*Time To Relearn

Be prepared because your older dog will have picked up some pretty bad habits. Not only will you have a few things to teach him, you are going to have to un-teach him things. Just remember, up to this stage in his life, he does not know any better.

Now that you know that it’s coming, be ready to stop him right in his tracks.

*Watch Your Tone

A tool with a lot of impact will be a nice firm voice as you begin the teaching process, not yelling, just a firm tone. In order for your dog to fully believe that you are in control of the situation always avoid sounding upset or angry. Look for the positive and when you see it, give him a treat and an awful lot of praise.

*One Word Commands

When you begin training your dog, older dog or even a puppy you should really use single word commands. Your pet will understand things much easier with words like; Stay, Come,Down or Sit than he will, “Stay right here” or “I said come here”

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*The First Time

Once your dog has a basic understanding of a command, he needs to do whatever it is that you ask him the first time. Begging is one thing that you should not do. One important note. When you want your dog to come, Spot Come, and if he doesn’t, do not delay calmly go and get him, of course if he does come Lots Of Praise. When you use a command three or four times before taking action then your dog knows that the first command means absolutely nothing.

*Good Behavior=Rewards

Here is one thing to be conscious of, rewarding your dog with treats and praise for a job well done will take you where you want to go much faster than punishing him for unacceptable behavior. Any time your dog follows a command that you have given him, shower him with attention and praise.

Positive reinforcement is one of the best tools that you can use to train an older dog or puppy.

Parish the thought that just because your dog is a little older that it will just be to complicated. By using correct training methods, it will seem like it took no time at all for your older dog to begin behaving properly.

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Question by schwarzdaniela: How do you toilet train an adult dog?
Friends of mine have got a dog of 4 years who hasn’t been toilet trained by her former owners. Now she (the dog) regularly poos and urinates in the house. I’ve been looking for advice in the web already but only found links about how to train a puppy and not an adult dog. Any suggestions?

Best answer:

Answer by Mollie H
Well, what they say is, “What you let them do as puppys, you cannot take away from them as dogs.” Meaning that it is extremely difficult once they are allready adults. But try the same way that websites say to do for a puppy. You never know, it just might work. Good Luck!

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Dog Litterbox Train on eBay:

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Question by Tre: Why does it cost that much to train a guide dog?
I heard on the news that it cost’s fifty grand to train a guide dog!! Where does all the money go??? Why so much??????
Nah i know the blind person doesn’t have to pay! I mean the government or whoever.

Best answer:

Answer by madzuka
That’s not true! Where did you see this. I’m sure there is classes with more reasonable prices than that.

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Question by duet: Is it possible to litter box train a dog?
I have a cat and I’ve had a large dog in the past. My neighbor recently got a small dog and I was wondering if it is possible to litter box train a dog. Cats are easily litter trained but not easily trained to follow commands. Dogs can be trained to follow commands but I’ve never seen a litter trained dog - why is this? Is there anyone who has a litter box trained dog?

Best answer:

Answer by cagirl1214
It’s probably possible but hard. Cats are naturally drawn to “go” in gritty materials so they kind of do it naturally. I’ve seen people with piddle pad trained dogs though which is just about the same thing.

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Check out these dog older train images:

last ride of an old train: the dog’s head


Image by jimforest
After about four decades of service, trains of this type will no longer be seen at Dutch train stations. They seemed so bright and new when I moved to Holland in 1977. It was knick-named the hondkopper — the dog’s head.

Sits EPIC FAIL XD


Image by wildstray
Recorded at the dog park, with my mobile. I call Paco inviting him to jump over the table. He jumps… I say him "sits" "sits" "what a spectacle! sits" and he finally sits down XD
Normally he sits immediatly xD Sit down and jump over and down the table are the only things he learned to date. We’re working on lay down.
I use only positive reinforcement and clicker training (as a philosophy… practically I cannot use the clicker because Paco is afraid of the "click" xD I’m looking for a less loud clicker…)

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Some cool dog tip train images:

Dog Training Tips!


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Play Me, I’m Yours, Day 6 - Jun 30, 2024 - 75


Image by Ed Yourdon
Where else could this be, but Coney Island?

Note: this photo was published in a Jul 23, 2024 blog titled "3 Simple Dog Obedience Training Tips." I’m not sure I see the connection, but I just take the pictures … other people figure out the context in which they make sense…

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On the 6th day of the "Play Me, I’m Yours" project, I tackled the borough of Brooklyn — starting at the Brooklyn Bridge Park, down at the edge of the East River, looking across to the southern tip of Manhattan — and the Statue of Liberty in the background. I spent some time watching an aspiring young concert pianist named Andrew Mancilla playing some tunes, before the piano was taken over by a couple of young children

From there, I hiked back up the hill to Boro Hall and Cadman Plaza, where I found my second piano; and then a couple blocks east to Willoughby Plaza (just a couple blocks away from the old Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, now renamed New York Polytechnic) for piano #3. Andrew Mancilla appeared again, and I listened to his music for a while…

Then, being woefully ignorant of the bus/subway system in Brooklyn, I took a gypsy cab to Ft. Greene Park, where I found one piano in the entrance to the park, and another one at the top of the hill where the Visitor’s Center sits.

From there, it was on to Grand Army Plaza, where I found a piano tucked away at the edge of the massive monument that mimics the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. I then walked several blocks down Flatbush Avenue, past the Brooklyn Zoo, to find the carousel, where another piano sat by its lonely self, ignored by everyone.

The next stop was the Herber Von King Park, somewhere in the middle of the borough, where I found a vandalized piano sitting at the base of of an outdoor theater for community affairs; one of the stage hands was busy painting some sets for a play, and shrugged when I asked her who had done the damage.

Next came McCarren Park, up in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, where I found a bright yellow piano being played energetically by a pierced and tattooed young woman who spoke little or no English when I asked her a few questions. Her place was then taken over by a couple of local fellows, one of whom brought along some bongo drums to accompany his pianist friend.

After a quick lunch in a bar at the corner of the park (which included the biggest, tastiest, and most filling BLT sandwich I have ever had), I took a taxi down to Coney Island and walked out on the boardwalk to find my final piano. A man by the name of John Rotante was playing a number of popular tunes; he told me that he sells Volvos by day, and plays the piano by night. If you want to hire him, his email address is [email protected] and his website is www.pianostylist.com.

When it was all over, I trudged over to the subway stop at Stillwell Avenue, and took the long ride back into Manhattan on the F train. All in all, it was a day well spent…

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A few years ago, a British artist by the name of Luke Jerram came up with the intriguing idea of spreading pianos around the city, with an open invitation for anyone nearby to wander up and begin playing something. Anything. First it was London, and now it’s here in New York City.

Starting on June 21st, sixty pianos have been donated, painted, and "installed" throughout the five boroughs of New York; you can see the locations here. I managed to visit seven of the pianos on the first day, and another seven on the second day. The program will only be running for two weeks, and I’ll be out of town for at least a few of those days … so it won’t be easy, but my goal is to track down, visit, and photograph all 60 pianos by the time it’s over. Even the one at the Staten Island Zoo, and the one located somewhere in the Joyce Kilmer Park up in the Bronx.

Aside from the logistics of getting to these remote corners of the five boroughs, it sounds like a straightforward task: ride a subway train to the appropriate stop, walk a block or two, take photograph or two, and then go back where you came from. But it’s turning out to be a little more difficult than I had thought, partly because the maps provided on the Web site are somewhat ambiguous and imprecise, and partly because the officials (e.g., guards, cops, grounds-keepers, etc.) whom you would expect to know about such things have been remarkably clueless.

I’ve also been hearing rumors that some of the pianos are being moved around between one day and the next. That might explain why I had to abandon today’s plan to photograph the piano in Bryant Park: after circling the park and the adjoining New York Public Library a couple of times, I concluded they had either hidden the piano, or moved into a subterranean cell.

As for the pianos I’ve found, the experiences have been quite varied. Some of the pianos sit mute and abandoned — including, oddly enough, the very fist piano in Times Square, which had been plunked down at Seventh Avenue and 44th Street, and basically ignored by everyone. The same was true of one of the pianos situated in a hard-to-find corner of Lincoln Center, as well as a piano ostensibly located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — which turned out to be sitting next to the giant obelisk behind the museum, and on the far side of the inner park roadway.

As for the pianos that do attract some musicians: it’s quite a varied bunch. Some are casual amateurs, some of whom have no idea what the program is all about, and who had no advance warning that the pianos would even be there. Some have obviously been planning and practicing for months. Some of the musicians sing, some don’t; some bring along drummers, guitarists, and vocalists. I even heard that one musician brought some dancers to help liven up his performance, but I haven’t seen that myself…

Anyway, I’ll keep photographing the pianos, and uploading the best of the photographs, until I run out of pianos, run out of time, or run out of energy — whichever happens first.

Tips Appreciated II


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The dog’s trained to take tips and carry them over to a bucket!

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