What Benefits Can You Get From Training Your Shih Tzu

There are lots of benefits you can get from training your Shih Tzu. Among are the following:

You are your dog's leader and mentor

Once you have trained your Shih Tzu, your bonding is strengthened. Not only does this build communication between the two of you as master and pet, this only gives him a better understanding of who has the higher order of the two of you. By him knowing that you are his "Alpha", you gain his respect. If this doesn't happen, your dog may usually misbehave and he won't follow orders from you.

Training your dog keeps him alive and well

If you have more control of your dog, you have more control of his behavior. You will also develop sufficient voice control to prevent any tragedy from happening to your dog. Imagine if your dog doesn't follow you when you tell him not to chew a certain object. There are many things that when chewed by dogs can be harmful for them.

Also, imagine when your dog shrugs off his collar in the middle of a busy street. All you will have to do to prevent any harm come to him is to heel him across the road and then ordered to sit while you replace his collar.

Alternatively, if one of your family leaves the front door open and your dog makes his escape, you can call him back home by using the recall command that he has learnt.

You have a more responsive pet

Training makes your pet more responsive. It also enables you to have quick and prompt control over your dog’s behavior, so in an emergency situation obedience training can actually save his life. In fact, training can save the vast numbers of dogs who ultimately end up in animal shelters. And if a dog is trained, he stands a better chance of being adopted sooner than an untrained dog. Data shows that those pups who are socialized and trained early in life are less likely to end up destroyed by the time they are three years of age than their untrained peers.

Well behaved pets are welcome everywhere

If your pet is obedience trained, he can go just anywhere you go without your worrying if he can hold his own there. He will never cause you any embarrassment or be a nuisance but display good manners whether at home when you have guests over or out in a crowd.

Build a lifelong relationship of trust

Few dog owners realize that by training their pets, they are actually investing in a lifelong relationship based on confidence, trust and friendship. In fact, it’s a surefire way of communicating with your dog and of sharing a common language. The more you teach or train him, the more you will get out of your special friendship as this will make him a better friend, more confident and secure and trusting too.

So make sure you train your dog. You are his master. You should let him know that.

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