Easy-to-Train Dog Breeds

Series Summary

Teaching your dog or puppy basic obedience commands can be a tricky feat, but the reward of a happy, healthy pet makes it well worth the time and effort it takes to train a dog. Learning how to stay, sit, and heel are important for both you and your dog's happiness and safety. There are many variations and theories on how to train a dog, but most professional dog trainers will tell you to reward good behavior and negatively reinforce bad behavior. Of course this can be more difficult than it sounds. Many people may end up unknowingly enforcing the bad behavior instead of the good, but with a little effort and knowledge of how a dog learns, even you can teach your dog basic obedience commands. In this free video series on dog obedience, an experienced dog trainer, Ty Brown, demonstrates how to train a dog to perform a variety of tasks. Brown discusses several dog training topics including; teaching a dog to swim, teaching a dog to pick up toys, litter box training, pulling a cart, not to bark, fetching a newspaper, retrieving and pointing. Dog training requires patience and diligence. Watch these videos and learn more about dog obedience.

Video Transcript

"Up, up, up. Hi this is Ty Brown with dogbehavioronline.com. Today we're talking about how to train your dog. The topic of today's discussion is Easy to Train Dog Breeds. Now whenever you're looking for easy to train dog breeds, probably the first thing that you should do is break it down into certain categories. Now when it comes to dogs, there's several different categories of dogs that are recognized. We have the Sporting breed, the Sporting group, we have the Herding group, we have the Hound group, the Working group, the Terrier group, the Toy group and the Non-Working group, and so there's several groups to choose from. Now in each one of these groups you can find breeds that are easy to train. There are a couple groups however, that lend themselves more to being easier to train, because of their history of working right along side Man, and so if you're looking for an easy to train breed, you might want to look just for the Sporting group, or you might also want to look at the Herding group. Some of the breeds that you might find in the Sporting group that are traditionally easy to train would be something like a Labrador Retriever, or even a Golden Retriever. These are dogs that for generations have been bred for their intelligence and bred for their ability to work with man. These are dogs that for generations have worked right along side, and so now, today, they retain a lot of those characteristics and are easy to train breeds. Now out of the Herding group, you're going to find such breeds as the Border Collie, the German Shepard, or even the Collie. These are breeds that are well noted for their incredible intelligence and for their ability to work right along side man. For many generations they've been bred with these characteristics in mind, and so today, that makes them some of the easiest to train breeds."