It’s essential for Dachshund parents like you to know certain basic factors that determine your relationship with your Dachshund and can go a long way in in learning how to train a Dachshund with love effectively.

Before you begin training your Dachshund, it is absolutely essential that you build a loving bond with him. This is important as it helps you to understand his needs and instincts and also allows your Dachshund to have complete trust in you.

How To Train A Dachshund With Love – Bond With Your Dachshund

Building a bond with your Dachshund is the first and the most crucial step involved in training him successfully. As soon as you bring your Dachshund home, you must first try to develop a caring and loving relationship with him in order to win his trust and confidence.

When Dachshunds are secure in the knowledge that they belong to the family, they are more likely to respond better to their owners’ training commands. Just like with any relationship, there must be mutual trust, love, and respect between you and your Dachshund.

Trust takes time to develop and respect comes from defining boundaries and treating any breach of those boundaries with firmness and fairness.

Without enforceable limitations, respect can’t be developed. And when there is no respect, building a bond with your Dachshund is almost impossible.

4 Golden Rules To Building A Relationship With Your Dachshund :

Love Your Dachshund and He Will Love You back

Once you’re succesful in building a bond with your Dachshund, you can rest assured that training him and teaching him new and clever tricks will be a cakewalk.

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How Your Dachshund Learns…

Your Dachshund’s learning period can be divided into five phases:

The Teaching Phase – This is the phase where you must physically demonstrate to your Dachshund exactly what you want him to do.

The Practicing Phase – Practice makes Perfect. Once a lesson is learnt, practice with your Dachshund what you have just taught him.

The Generalizing Phase – Here you must continue practicing with your Dachshund in different locations and in an environment with a few distractions. You can take your Dachshund out for a walk, or to a nearby park and command him to practice whatever you’ve taught him.

Practicing the learned lessons in multiple locations and in the presence of small distractions will help him learn and retain lessons better .

The Testing Phase – Once you’re sure that your Dachshund has achieved almost 90% success….he responds correctly almost every time you give a command, you must start testing his accuracy in newer locations with a lot of distractions.

Example: Take him to the local shopping mall and ask him to obey your command. He may not come up with the correct response the very first time you do this, but you must not lose hope.

The idea is to test your Dachshund to see how he responds in an environment which is new to him. Set-up a situation where you are in control of the environment and your Dachshund.

There are only 2 possibilities:

Keep on testing until he succeeds. Follow the rule of the 3 Ps – patience, persistence, praise.

Internalizing Phase – Finally, comes the extremely rewarding phase where your Dachshund does everything he is taught to do even without your commands.

Remember:

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