Beagle Dog Training
Dog training is a challenging task especially if it’s your first dog and you’ve never trained a beagle dog before. What a lot of people don’t realize is that the success of your dog learning new tricks and how you should approach your dog with training heavily depends on the breed of your dog. Some dog breeds learn new tricks quickly others how ever have a hard time communicating with their owner and learning new things. Beagle dogs would fit somewhere in between.
Beagles are intelligent dogs that are capable of learning new things quickly but don’t have the attention span to do it. As you probably know beagles were bread as hunting dogs which means their sense of smell is extremely sensitive. Beagles also have the instinct of tracking down their prey bred into them which can cause some problems during training. If while training your dog, he senses a smell of another critter he will probably want to follow the hot trail and will pay little or no attention at all to what you have to say.
Does That Mean It’s Impossible to Train a Beagle Puppies?
Of course not! Beagle puppies can be easily trained if you know how to properly take care of them and create a bond between you and your dog. You have to be firm and establish that you’re the leader and your commands are more important than following a scent of another animal that has recently run by. That’s the problems with a lot of new dog owners who try to train their beagle puppies to behave. They skip bonding with their dog and establishing the leadership of the pack and quickly skip to training.
What they don’t understand is that beagle pups, just like all dogs, are pack animals and have the pack mentality. If you don’t establish a bond between you and your beagle and don’t show your dog that you’re the pack leader, training your beagle puppy will be so much more difficult. Once you have done that, training should be a lot easier on the both you and your beagle pup.
Why I Decided To Write a Beagle Training Book
I have always loved dogs ever since I can remember. Even though I love all sorts of different kind of dog breeds, beagle however have to be my favorite mainly because I had a cute beagle puppy named Bruno when I was young. I lived on a farm fairly far from the town so I spent most of my days with Bruno. Of course back then, I didn’t worry about training my puppy because I was too young to understand why it’s so important, but it wasn’t like this the whole time.
Shortly after I moved out into my own apartment, I purchased a cute little beagle puppy and that’s when I realized it’s impossible to keep an untrained beagle dog in your home. Every time I would leave for work, I’d have a huge mess in my house waiting for me to clean it up. Neighbors constantly complained about my dog barking while I was gone. Having people over my house was just embarrassing because my dog couldn’t behave himself around guests so I had to lock him up in my room while we had people over, but I still brushed of training thinking it’s only for people who want to boss around their dog. Until one day after coming from work I discovered that my beagle dog chewed up the dress that was passed down to me from my grandmother and that’s when I had enough.
I decided to become a good dog owner and go through proper training with my beagle dog. Unfortunately for me, I had no idea where to turn to or what to do. I tried going to couple dog training classes and my beagle dog would listen to the instructor but once we were home, I was back where we started. I also bought couple of dog training books, but they were about dog training in general and on offered some basic tips which I’ve already learned in classes. Nothing I tried helped me so I decided to do my own research and train my dog on my own.
I went out and spoke to many dog trainers and veterinarians to find out everything there is to know about the beagle dog breed. After applying the knowledge that I learned, I successfully trained my beagle all of the basic tricks like sit, stay, fetch, lay down and others in under a week. I was so pleased with the results that I decided to write a beagle training book of my own.
I wanted my book to not only include how to train a beagle dogs and how to establish leadership, but also how to make your puppy happy and healthy. I wanted to answer every dog owners question about their beagles so they won’t have to look anywhere else for answers. I also wanted to write about some topics that even professional dog trainers can learn from.
Enough me talking about the book, why don’t you just go and take a look for yourself. I’ve included a list of topics of what what’s in my book and also what some of the people who read it have to say about it.
