Basset Hound Training Essentials That Every Owner Should Know

Dog training can be easy and super fun for both of you and your puppy, yet it is the opposite in basset Hound training. As in Hounds family, the bassett are hard to train as well.

How come basset hound is so hard to train? What are the reasons?

1. They do not like to listen to any command as they tends to follow what the nose is telling them.

2. They are such a type of dog the pleasing their owner is not important to them, they just want to laze around.

It doesnt matter if it is professional training or home dog training, especially dog obedience, most dog owners or trainers always shy away from Basset hound due to its characteristics and behavior towards trainings. However, it is not impossible to train a Basset hound if you are dedicated to do so, plan properly and put more efforts into this. There are dog owners that are quite successful in training their basset hounds using different types of techniques. The most important is the patience, together with love are essential to have a tamed and well behaved dog.

Is it hard to train a basset hound or youre just lazy to do that?

Dog Training tips are now easily accessible when searching a web using the powerful search engine, simply with few clicks and you can also learn through seminars, dog owners blog, experiences, videos from the dog experts from different part of the world. One of the basic but the best methods in Basset Hound training is to know your dog well and always try to listen to him.

First, try to find the activites that your bassett enjoys and start from there. Do not bored him by the so-called training, but let him know that it is fun in having these activities! Be creative and innovative and discover variety of training methods as possible, switch the methods from time to time so that they dont find it boring. Do not do it excessively. Limitation of very important. When you are just started, just try to limit the exercises for about 10-20 minutes. When you notice that the basset hound is slowing down and showing no interest is an alarm that he is bored with your training methodology.

Always remember the basic principle of dog training. Punishment and rewards. By using training tools such as crate and rewards can greatly help you to achieve your goal in every training session. In the past experiences by most of the dog owners, most basset hounds could command when they are offered with rewards, however they might be too happy until forget the that training is conducted when reward is being offered. To prevent this from happening, always hide the reward from him before giving an instruction. In the end show him the reward when he manage to follow the order. So that you may have a tamed Basset hound who follows command with or without the presence of a reward. The key idea behind this is letting him know that he can be rewarded even he is not seeing it after completely done the basset hound training.

What are the things that you need to know as a basset owner?

Knowing the suitable time to start training is essential to train a basset. If a mistake is conducted at the beginning of the training, it might delay the whole training program and process which eventually may not be able to guarantee good results. You should always keep in mind to start the training with something your dog really enjoy doing so that he will be happy to do it. No harsh and force to your dog to do something which you think he doesnt like. If you find him hard to obey, you need to put more efforts into training him, a consistency and determination are needed to get your dog well-trained.

It is not easy when training a stubborn dog such as basset hound, yet it can be done if you are trying to put some efforts, plan for the trainings in terms of schedule, activities, and use some techniques or methodologies which have been proven that are work well with basset, you may success.

I hope you will have a great success in training your basset hound.