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Boxer Dog World
Boxer Dog Advice
Choosing Your Boxer Dog >>>>
Are You Ready For A Boxer Dog? >>>>
Housebreaking Your Boxer Dog >>>>
Disciplining Your Boxer Dog >>>>
How Boxers Work With The Family >>>>
Playful Training For Your Boxer Dog >>>>
Ending Destructive Behaviour >>>>
How Boxer Dogs Learn >>>>
Breed Information >>>>
Choosing Your Boxer Dog >>>>
Are You Ready For A Boxer Dog? >>>>
Housebreaking Your Boxer Dog >>>>
Disciplining Your Boxer Dog >>>>
How Boxers Work With The Family >>>>
Playful Training For Your Boxer Dog >>>>
Ending Destructive Behaviour >>>>
How Boxer Dogs Learn >>>>
Breed Information >>>>
Training your Boxer Dog
Boxers are extremely playful, strong willed, independent thinkers, and unchecked dominance allowed during inappropriate play can make control and socialization difficult.
Playtime should be a fun opportunity to train your Boxer appropriate behavior, and an opportunity to increase your dog’s level of trust and respect for you as a leader.
Understand Boxer' intelligence/stubbornness, handle it well, and you can avoid problems in disciplining and training them.
Play helps puppies develop important skills (such as hunting and fighting techniques) through practice, and it also affects their social development. Play between puppies is often rough and uncontrolled, and at times escalates to competitive aggression. Littermates pull on each other’s tails and paws, bite ears, chase and pounce on one another, wrestle, bark and growl. All the while, they are learning how powerful they are, and where they rank in comparison to other members of their “pack.” By eight weeks old, when puppies are commonly separated from their siblings and introduced to their new homes, they already have an understanding of pack dynamics and ideas about how to elevate their social standing.
Your main goal in training appropriate play should be control of aggressive behavior and proper channeling of your Boxer’s energy and intelligence. Never use play to reinforce your authority through hard-handed domination in competitive games! Instead, strive to keep your Boxer’s attention focused on you as a leader and instigator of fun games, and a source of rewards for appropriate play behavior.
Avoid games that resemble “tug-of-war.” Never encourage or allow your Boxer to play with hands, feet, or clothing, no matter how young your puppy might be or how harmless this may seem. Do not encourage your Boxer to jump on or at you, and avoid chasing and wrestling games. All of these arouse your Boxer’s natural, aggressive instincts, and invite it to threaten your authority.
Controlled play should be goal oriented and allow your Boxer plenty of opportunities to earn your praise.
Teaching your Boxer to fetch, playing hide and seek with toys, and practicing tricks are all examples of constructive, appropriate play.
Avoid teasing your Boxer, as it will likely become frustrated very quickly and turn its attention away from you. Remember to offer treats and praise whenever your Boxer plays appropriately, even if this involves nothing more than bouncing a ball by itself or running after a toy you have thrown.
Boxers are comedians, and with their owners’ encouragement, they learn to discover and invent games themselves. Rules established during appropriate play training encourage your Boxer to use its intelligence and natural curiosity to invent fun, safe, stimulating games you both can enjoy.
Although Boxers are unique among dog breeds for many reasons, basic obedience commands are still the best place to begin their training.
The goal of obedience training is to teach your Boxer to respond to the following commands: Sit, Down, Stay, Heel, and Come. Begin obedience training in a puppy or beginner’s training class, but practice and reinforce it at home.
Start training at approximately 8 weeks old if you have a new puppy. Begin with the simplest commands and work up to the more challenging ones. Once Sit and Down are mastered, add Stay, then Heel, and lastly, Come. Training sessions should be short, but frequent. Two or three 5 to 10 minute sessions a day are better than one 30 minute session every two days. Boxers are easily bored and distracted, and you want to make training fun, not a chore. Have training sessions when your Boxer is somewhat tired and a little hungry, such as in between meals and after play sessions. Boxers that are “wound up” or have a full belly are much less likely to pay attention.
No matter what command you are training, the basic steps are the same. Get your Boxer to focus on you, say its name, and then speak the command. Next, entice or gently guide it into the position of whatever command you are training. Reward the position with praise and treats immediately, and repeat the process. Look for opportunities throughout the day for your Boxer to practice and show off the learned behavior, and reward it every time.
When speaking your Boxer’s name and commands, be sure to use a friendly, calm tone of voice, and be very gentle when you are guiding your Boxer into position. If you become impatient, or your Boxer begins to struggle with you, end the training session. Never use obedience commands in conjunction with or as a means of punishment, even if you are using them stop undesirable behavior.
Some Boxer owners train “Off” and “No” in conjunction with the five basic obedience commands, but use them sparingly. Boxers love to jump on everything, and a Boxer wouldn’t be a Boxer if it wasn’t somewhat mischievous! Be wary of focusing too much attention on what your dog does wrong. Boxers are independent thinkers, and they tend to block out reprimands given too often, or do what they want regardless of them. Reprimanding is a form of positive reinforcement, just as giving praise is. Your Boxer will learn that it gets what it craves - your attention - for the wrong behavior. A much better approach is to end the undesirable behavior by replacing it with a desirable one, and rewarding the replacement behavior.
Once they are mastered, be sure to practice obedience commands with your Boxer in a variety of places, with increasing levels of distraction. Use them to help socialize your Boxer, and as a tool that allows it to enjoy more freedom.
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Boxers are extremely playful, strong willed, independent thinkers, and unchecked dominance allowed during inappropriate play can make control and socialization difficult.
Playtime should be a fun opportunity to train your Boxer appropriate behavior, and an opportunity to increase your dog’s level of trust and respect for you as a leader.
Understand Boxer' intelligence/stubbornness, handle it well, and you can avoid problems in disciplining and training them.
Play helps puppies develop important skills (such as hunting and fighting techniques) through practice, and it also affects their social development. Play between puppies is often rough and uncontrolled, and at times escalates to competitive aggression. Littermates pull on each other’s tails and paws, bite ears, chase and pounce on one another, wrestle, bark and growl. All the while, they are learning how powerful they are, and where they rank in comparison to other members of their “pack.” By eight weeks old, when puppies are commonly separated from their siblings and introduced to their new homes, they already have an understanding of pack dynamics and ideas about how to elevate their social standing.
Your main goal in training appropriate play should be control of aggressive behavior and proper channeling of your Boxer’s energy and intelligence. Never use play to reinforce your authority through hard-handed domination in competitive games! Instead, strive to keep your Boxer’s attention focused on you as a leader and instigator of fun games, and a source of rewards for appropriate play behavior.
Avoid games that resemble “tug-of-war.” Never encourage or allow your Boxer to play with hands, feet, or clothing, no matter how young your puppy might be or how harmless this may seem. Do not encourage your Boxer to jump on or at you, and avoid chasing and wrestling games. All of these arouse your Boxer’s natural, aggressive instincts, and invite it to threaten your authority.
Controlled play should be goal oriented and allow your Boxer plenty of opportunities to earn your praise.
Teaching your Boxer to fetch, playing hide and seek with toys, and practicing tricks are all examples of constructive, appropriate play.
Avoid teasing your Boxer, as it will likely become frustrated very quickly and turn its attention away from you. Remember to offer treats and praise whenever your Boxer plays appropriately, even if this involves nothing more than bouncing a ball by itself or running after a toy you have thrown.
Boxers are comedians, and with their owners’ encouragement, they learn to discover and invent games themselves. Rules established during appropriate play training encourage your Boxer to use its intelligence and natural curiosity to invent fun, safe, stimulating games you both can enjoy.
Although Boxers are unique among dog breeds for many reasons, basic obedience commands are still the best place to begin their training.
The goal of obedience training is to teach your Boxer to respond to the following commands: Sit, Down, Stay, Heel, and Come. Begin obedience training in a puppy or beginner’s training class, but practice and reinforce it at home.
Start training at approximately 8 weeks old if you have a new puppy. Begin with the simplest commands and work up to the more challenging ones. Once Sit and Down are mastered, add Stay, then Heel, and lastly, Come. Training sessions should be short, but frequent. Two or three 5 to 10 minute sessions a day are better than one 30 minute session every two days. Boxers are easily bored and distracted, and you want to make training fun, not a chore. Have training sessions when your Boxer is somewhat tired and a little hungry, such as in between meals and after play sessions. Boxers that are “wound up” or have a full belly are much less likely to pay attention.
No matter what command you are training, the basic steps are the same. Get your Boxer to focus on you, say its name, and then speak the command. Next, entice or gently guide it into the position of whatever command you are training. Reward the position with praise and treats immediately, and repeat the process. Look for opportunities throughout the day for your Boxer to practice and show off the learned behavior, and reward it every time.
When speaking your Boxer’s name and commands, be sure to use a friendly, calm tone of voice, and be very gentle when you are guiding your Boxer into position. If you become impatient, or your Boxer begins to struggle with you, end the training session. Never use obedience commands in conjunction with or as a means of punishment, even if you are using them stop undesirable behavior.
Some Boxer owners train “Off” and “No” in conjunction with the five basic obedience commands, but use them sparingly. Boxers love to jump on everything, and a Boxer wouldn’t be a Boxer if it wasn’t somewhat mischievous! Be wary of focusing too much attention on what your dog does wrong. Boxers are independent thinkers, and they tend to block out reprimands given too often, or do what they want regardless of them. Reprimanding is a form of positive reinforcement, just as giving praise is. Your Boxer will learn that it gets what it craves - your attention - for the wrong behavior. A much better approach is to end the undesirable behavior by replacing it with a desirable one, and rewarding the replacement behavior.
Once they are mastered, be sure to practice obedience commands with your Boxer in a variety of places, with increasing levels of distraction. Use them to help socialize your Boxer, and as a tool that allows it to enjoy more freedom.
©2007 boxerdogworld.co.uk