Blending Time's 

The concept of training a dog to be well-rounded was rather too hilarious at first, for it needs not only to tell the dog to track the sky then the ground before acting, but must also be competent to retrieve an object in the water. Flexibility to adapt to variables without exception is the primary objective of any trainer, whether the end in view is a home settler or a dog engaged in a sporting match. Truth be known, most professional trainers fall short to their primary objective by being carried over with their client’s immediate needs. As a result, ceaseless attendance becomes necessary when another need suddenly pops up. Variables are variables; they are all unforeseen. However, the training philosophy that I certify involves that the dog owner must get involved. That is, to get involved into only two scopes to follow: the ability to let your dog respond to your ques, and the ability to use the dog’s natural responses as the premise of conditioning them further. In other words, this training requires a qualitative discipline for both the owner and the dog to widen their appropriateness to respond to all types of variables, instead of merely a quantitative restraint that a professional trainer, in such a short time, envisions. The former is about preparation, the latter is about correcting an already problematic dog. A problematic dog is an unhappy dog, period.   

Hence, since the scenario of a hunting expedition carries with it all types of natural variables that you and your dog share, the owner’s capacity to discern how the dog will respond to any of them becomes the only thing that is predictable. Diverting your dog’s attention to you, as its surpassing echelon in the picking order becomes the ornament that supports a more rewarding operation for both of you then, this includes a more ingrained connection that has been developed along with it. With this in mind, this training must never be delegated, master trainer and dog’s instinctive reflexes should be gradually established similar to their natal heritage in endowing a leader, master trainer has the obligation to cultivate further the dog’s prowess with repeated exercises to obtain greater proficiency.

With my background of a rural life and a lifelong association with dogs, this training concept became humorous to me. And more humorous when I see the influx of the so-called dog specialist carrying with them this trivial or nominal medication mentioned earlier. Dogs are dogs that we humans today calculate to our own loss for it not only limits the dog’s ability, it also curtail its usability. Hence, even in our indulgent age, we still need to keep this tailor-made rustic outland hunting expedition at hand that reverberates the conduct of a dog’s life in the pack while unwinding or when they are on the verge of a hunting quest. That is why to me, to take this away is to shape an artificial service toward our dog and its owner.

I want to let a dog owner see that we are here talking about a lifestyle living with your dog. Yes, training is gradual but it never ceases, there will always be another recreational task at hand to keep the mental health of your dog and its upkeep. And while you are not around, the possibility of owning or boarding them in a user friendly footpath is well worth it. They have been schooled enough already that they can somehow manage to flourish in that kind of atmosphere even without an alpha dog. And talking about pursuing a modern day sports activity; this really becomes a matter of diverting their energy towards that task. Nothing is new to them per se.                  

Toy's trade-off

While it is a proven fact that we can entice a dog to obey a command by luring them with food, the truth to the matter is that food means nothing to them when prey emerges. This only shows that food to them is a subsequent motive to obedience, or shall we say a dutiful coercion that drives them to instantaneous action. For by default, the appearance of an actionable target is the key and the dominant responder, it is not the food per se.  With this in mind, the better choice of a trainer is not to rely so much on food to coerce obedience but to contrive a way to re-enact the appearance of a prey, as how do you give that treat, as a starter. Moving forward, there is a variety of toys made available to enhance the appearance of prey, tools to evoke the trainer’s oversight in the field, and devices for your dog’s prowess and mastery. Sadly, though, there are countless green shoppers who are clueless of why they are categorized this way. In summary, it is one thing to be oblivious about what moves your dog to action, and it is another to buy extravagant toys, Tools and Devices that only detract and are worthless if not properly equated.  

There are two venues in which one can train a dog: one is indoor and the other in the open. There are also two tenures that a trainer holds in broadening the dog’s stimulus for prey: one is to situate them in an outland surrounding and the other is the use of toys, tools and devices. The ability to switch the actual from an artificial and vice versa must always be in the trainer’s mind in order to establish a more solid administration, since the trainer’s verbal expression and body language while in the field become the pattern communicated to the dog even while preying on an artificial. Dogs communicate through sonance and body language; they also react commensurately when communicated properly. This same pattern, however, is the posture of an alpha dog that is vividly transmitted to the rest of the pack either while they are unwinding or on the verge of a hunting expedition. 

Reeling back to toys, tools and devices, they are categorically found to support any sporting involvement carried over via a hunt quest and the dog’s natural prowess for prey. Toys - for the dog’s amusement over prey, Tools - for a distant oversight while in the field, and Devices - to master the dog’s aptitude to perform well in a given sphere. With this in mind, one cannot go wrong in picking the right purchase or the right use of those choices. Another thing to remember is that while Toys can easily be exploited to represent prey, one cannot overlook the choice of tools and devices. Take the case of a well-padded leash. If the desire is to abate your dog from eluding where you want it to be while on trail, then check an invasive tool instead. An annoying sound of a whistle to extend a verbal command for attention with close neighbors can easily be dismissed by a sonar whistle. On the other hand, a bicycle attachment device might well replace running alongside your dog for its physical nimbleness.

        

Again, one must have a hunting expedition in mind to be able to select a viable instrument and subject them to a realistic training field even if the sport activity that you are in is not directly equated to hunting per se. You can best get their full energy and interest as well as develop a more complaint communication skill that is germane to them. No more guesswork.