Dog are, for the most part, are easily distracted. With their incredible sense of smell, super human hearing and natural curiosity, a dog’s world is constantly bombarded by stimulation from everything that exists in their immediate environment and even by sights, sounds and smells that may be hundreds of meters or even kilometers away. Dogs are able to detect stimuli that you and I cannot even register. The ability to detect potential threats, sources of food, and potential mates, even at great distances, is an important part of a canine’s survival mechanism which has allowed it so survive and thrive for thousands of years.

When you are training your dog there is a good chance that it is looking off into the distance, sniffing the air or ground, trying to check out other people, dogs or perhaps that pesky bird or squirrel that just won’t leave your yard. When your dog’s attention is fixed on anything in your environment other than you, it will be difficult to get it to pay attention to what you are saying and the commands that you are giving. And this can make training frustrating and time consuming. When you first start training your dog one of the most important things that you can do is to start your training in a place where there are as few distractions as possible. A quiet room in your house with no other people, pets, food or toys is usually a good place to start. You want to make sure that you are the most interesting thing in that room so that you have the best chance to keep your dog’s attention while you begin to teach him or her the tasks that you wish them to learn.

Once your dog becomes proficient at all of the basic commands; come, sit, down, stay, you can begin to introduce distractions to your training. You can start with your pups favorite toy or perhaps a small piece of its preferred food on the ground. Work through your commands and continue to encourage your dog to complete the command before giving it the food or toy reward. Over time you can start to escalate the distractions to include other people or pets, load noises, bouncing balls, or anything else that draws your pals attention. Once he can complete the commands with distractions indoors, move your training outdoors where the sounds and smell distractions escalate and require more of your dogs attention. You must remain calm, confident and patient throughout all of the training and continue to test your dogs ability to pay attention.

At Perfect Dog For Life we spend a great deal of time teaching your dog to pay attention in distracted environments, we feel that this is one of the most important things that we can do fo your dog and for you. In order for your dog to be safe, it must obey your commands regardless of what other elements may be vying for its attention. We start, just as described above, with smaller distractions that will test your dogs ability to remain focused on commands. Over time, we build the level of distractions in the environment to include busy streets, foot traffic, crowds of people, other dogs and anything else that may be a particular distraction to your dog. By the end of the two week e-collar board and train program your dog is ready, willing, and able to complete all of the learned commands in any environment with any distractions.

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