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4 Great Books On Beagle Training

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Beagles can be a lovable choice for a household pet. These members of the hound species of
canine have been used as hunting partners and loyal companions for those of all ages. They are
even-tempered with potential for great intelligence and are easy to train. Armed with the
knowledge you need, you can train your beagle to be a loyal companion or track down prey in
the field.

1. Training Your Beagle -This book covers many aspects of your beagle and
how to train them well. It is written in an easy-to-understand tone allowing anyone to train their
beagle. The book, “Training Your Beagle,” doubles as a historical reference of the breed
including habits and common traits of the canine. Not only will you receive knowledge of how
to train your animal, but you can learn the behaviors and personalities of the different subspecies
of the breed and what to expect.

2. Beagle Training Basics -The book, “Beagle Training Basics: The Care,
Training and Hunting of the Beagle,” is primarily written for the hunter in mind. The author has
compiled several decades of training knowledge into this book for those who wish to use the
beagle’s keen sense of smell to hunt. This book will provide a simple step-by-step process in the
maintenance and training of the hunting beagle.

3. How to Train Your Beagle In this short 96-page book, beagle owners can train their canines to be a gentle indoor
household pet. As each breed of canine is different, the beagle has specific needs that are
covered in this easy to ready volume. The author, Liz Palika, has produced a wide range of
books pertaining to the training and care of many breeds and shares her knowledge of beagles.

4. Beagles for Dummies The
ever popular “for Dummies” series of books released this publication in 2006. The
book, “Beagles for Dummies,” covers a wide range of information regarding the lovable breed.
You will learn everything from mannerisms to beagle-proofing your home including effective
ways to train the pet. This book also covers various health concerns that specific breeds face and
what to expect from your pet.

The beagle has been used throughout history in a variety of situations. Although they may lack

the speed that other breeds may have, beagles have stamina and an incredible ability for
scenting. They have been used in drug location and bomb detection units. Discover what your
beagle is capable of by adding one of the above books to your library.

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Puppy Socialization Tips Key to a Safer Dog

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Its very important to socialize
your beagle around people and
other dogs. It helps them learn
their place, and some good
behavior.

You can socialize your beagle
by taking them to different places,
like Petsmart ,and
Bass Pro.

Between 3 and 12 weeks is the best
time to start socializing your puppy.
This will help them become more relaxed
because they have been exposed to a
variety of experiences.

The ASPCA Offers these tips for Puppy Socialization:

What If My Puppy Seems Frightened During Socialization?
Even though 3 to 12 weeks old is a time when puppies are most comfortable with new experiences, they might sometimes find a new experience frightening. Whenever this happens, it’s important to introduce your puppy to the scary situation much more gradually, and to make a big effort to do something your puppy loves during the situation or right afterwards. For example, if your puppy seems to be frightened while sitting on your lap in a schoolyard full of children, then sit further away from the action and offer your pup a delicious treat each time a scary noise or movement happens. Another solution is to go to a much quieter park where only a few children are playing, use praise and treats to help convince him it’s a great place to be

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You can take your puppy for a short drive through to
grab a burger. Have coffee at your favorite coffee spot,
and hangout outdoors with your pup. You can take them
for small walks around small shopping areas.

Its also important to keep socializing your dog
through out their life. This means varying
your walk routine, and continuing to introduce them
to new people and other dogs.

The more you do it, the more balanced and
better behaved your dog will be.

Puppy Socialization Tips

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Agility Training and your Beagle

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An Australian Shepherd doing agility at the Rose City Classic AKC Show 2007, Portland, Oregon, USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is a fast paced sport
where dogs jump over and
climb over obstacles, weave
through poles and run through
tunnels. Beagles are smart and
have the energy to learn. Its a
lot of fun and a great way to bond.

Training needs to start early in
your pups life. Make sure they have
a grasp on basic obedience commands first.
Make sure to socialize them at parks and
places where other dogs are.

If you want to compete successfully
it will take serious teamwork, and
commitment. Make sure your dog is in
good shape. Be patient they will make
mistakes, so stay positive.

Find a good instructor and enjoy
bonding and learning with your beagle. Use
lots of praise, positive reinforcement and
you’ll be very successful.

In addition here are some Tips to keep in mind
during agility training class.

Beagles Unlimited Suggests :

1.While you are waiting your turn, play with your dog. Have your dog follow a treat or toy between your legs, as if performing the weave poles. Not only will this reinforce the weave poles when you work on them, but it’s also something fun and motivating for your dog to do.

 

2.If your dog is afraid of an obstacle, try your hardest to not stress about it or get upset. This is easier said than done, but if you make light of it, your dog will be more at ease and more willing to do something that they are fearful of. Realize that this is NOT rocket science and that the world will NOT come crashing to an end if your dog won’t perform a specific obstacle.

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Keep in mind that you need to gradually add
training equipment and keep it fun. Reward them
for the activity.

Set commands for each piece of equipment.If your trying to do
more than one obstacle keep them focused on
their current activity until they move on.

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Starting Training your Beagle or Puppy on Rabbits

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Four to six weeks
is a good time to start.
Use food and treats and see if your beagle puppy
is interested.

Start by playing a game of find
it, and hiding the treats, so
the puppy will go searching and
use his nose and get the treat.

Often you will see the beagle wag
their tail and keep their nose to the ground
with this game. You may even hear them do some
tonguing, a sound you hear when a beagle has picked up
a rabbit scent and is on the trail. Here are some
books on training beagle for rabbits

Other things you can try

Beagles Unlimited suggests the Following:

When your Beagle pup reaches the age of 6-8 weeks old you need to incorporate a couple different forms of training. Pups at this age have a short attention span so keep the training sessions to about 10 – 15 minutes for no more than two or three times per day. This is a great age to teach your pup to retrieve and to track a scent trail. This level of training will last for several weeks.

A good place to start teaching a pup to retrieve is by using a hallway in your home. Roll up a pair of socks, put your puppy in the hallway, and then you set at the end of the hallway. Tease your puppy with the sock roll and then toss it down the hallway when your puppy is looking in that direction. Give your puppy the “fetch” command and encourage it to go get the sock roll. Often your puppy will run down the hallway, grab the sock roll and try to run past you.

When your pup gets to your location you need to take the sock roll away from it and say “good dog” while giving your puppy lots of love consisting of vigorous petting. Once your puppy starts bringing the sock roll back to you on command, you can take this activity outside, and then start adding some rabbit scent on the sock roll. It will then be an easy transition to switch from a rabbit scented, sock roll to a small, frozen, dead rabbit. Yes, you should be keeping a frozen rabbit (fur and all) inside a gallon freezer bag in your freezer. Since your retriever training sessions are always short and never more than 30 minutes maximum, the frozen bunny will not thaw out and spoil. Refreeze the bunny immediately after each training session so it will keep for several months. Eventually you can graduate your Beagle onto retrieving a full size, adult rabbit.

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You can also buy rabbit scent
at Bass Pro Shops, and
sprinkle it on of your dogs
favorite toys and hide it.

Beagle Puppy Rabbit Training

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Beagle Puppy Games

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beagle puppyIts always fun to teach
your beagle puppy something new.
Keep the games simple and start them when your puppy can pay attention longer.
Usually this happens about
3 months of age.
We started with a game of touch it.

We got a stick and painted a dot on it.
Then whenever our puppy touched the
dot, we clicked and gave him a treat.

It was a fun game and he loved it.
We also started a game called find it.
Take a treat and hide it. Let your
beagle puppy use his nose to find it.

Once your puppy finds the treat,
click. Its a good game and its a
whole lot of fun. Your beagle
puppy will love playing this game
and using his nose to find things.

My aunt taught her beagle to find things
and drop them in a treasure chest. She
would click and treat whenever her dog
did this.

One of the great things about games for beagle puppies
or older beagles is that it keeps them from getting bored.
By creating games that use their sense of smell.

Here are some more fun games you can try
from DogChannel.com

Catch me if you can helps teach the come command. With two people sitting on the floor about 10 or 15 feet apart, one person holds and pets the pup while the other calls him Snooper, Come! in a happy voice. Use the puppys name to reinforce his recognition. When the pup comes running, give him a giant bear hug and lick of smelly liver. Repeat back and forth several timesdont over do it.

The missing-toy caper is another favorite, since Beagles love to solve problems. Start by placing one of his favorite toys in plain sight and ask your puppy Where’s your toy? and let him take it. Repeat several times. Then place your puppy safely outside the room and place the toy where only part of it shows. Bring him back and ask the same question. Praise highly when he finds it. Repeat several times. Finally, conceal the toy completely and let your puppy sniff it out with that flawless scenthound nose.


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Helping your Beagle overcome Fear:

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Dogs can become fearful of anything. Whether its

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a person, object or even a place.

Don’t count on a fast and
easy fix. Being patient
and calm is …key.

The most common fears are:

*Vacuum Cleaners

*Lawnmower

*Places like the Vet & People

*Sounds and sights like Sirens, and Ambulances

The following are some tips provided from VeterinaryPartner.com

1. Have a veterinarian examine the dog and perform any indicated tests to diagnose problems that could be causing pain, sickness or disability. Work with the veterinarian to treat the problem and ease the dog’s physical pain. Bring the dog back to the veterinarian regularly.

 

2. Assess the problem:
a. Do you know of an event that started the fear?
b. Is the thing the dog fears actually dangerous and/or likely to cause pain to the dog? How are you going to keep your dog safe?
c. Are people or other animals being placed in danger by the dog’s behavior and if so, how are you going to put a stop to that danger right now?
d. How can you protect the dog from experiencing this fear while you work through the behavior modification steps?
e. Is it necessary for the dog to cope with this situation, or could things reasonably be managed to simply keep the dog away from it from now on?
f. If you determine it’s better to protect your dog from this situation rather than trying to treat the fear, give the dog time to get used to your new plan. Chances are you’ll be surprised to see how much happier your dog becomes.

 

3. To treat the fear, plan the steps for conditioning your dog gradually to the feared thing. Plan how you are going to start at a DISTANCE from the feared thing, with it functioning at a low INTENSITY for periods of short DURATION. Plan how you will, over time, gradually reduce the distance, increase the intensity, and expose the dog to the feared thing for periods of longer duration. Plan how you will increase one variable at a time.

 

4. Determine what things this dog finds rewarding. For the greatest chance of success, you’ll want to use as many of them as possible. Incentives include: food treats the dog likes, food treats the dog goes crazy for, regular meals, retrieving, games with you the dog enjoys playing, special toys reserved for special times, “happy-timing” the dog with a jolly attitude (using excited voice and body language to convey to the dog that is a happy thing), privileges such as a walk or ride in the car, and anything else THIS dog likes.

If you can’t come up with anything your dog finds rewarding, developing these motivators is your first training goal! You may need the help of a behavior specialist or trainer. One option is to break the dog’s daily food into more, smaller meals. Some or even all of the food can be fed by hand, depending on what works best for your conditioning program.

 


5. Discontinue all exposure of the dog to the feared thing. Start your conditioning program at the distance, intensity and duration where your dog happily accepts rewards. Advance very slowly toward your goal of having the dog comfortable with the feared thing so that the dog will be able to function happily around it in the future. Be patient and take as long as needed to avoid pushing the dog too fast. If you trigger the dog’s fear during this process, that’s a big setback, so keep the progress slow enough to avoid that.

 

6. Reward your dog at times the dog is showing confidence. Avoid rewarding fearfulness.

 

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What are some ways you helped your beagle overcome fear?

Dog Training Expert Ceasar Milan

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Puppy Potty Training Tips:

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Puppies don’t have bladder or bowel control yet,

English: Beagle puppy in grass, sunshine

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due to the fact that their muscles aren’t fully
developed.

Generally need to go out more often.

According to the experts there is a general rule of thumb
you can follow, for potty training your beagle puppy. Take the
age of the puppy in months and add one. That will give you
a guide on the maximum number of hours your puppy can
wait until they have to go potty.

According to Tamara Dormer, CPDT-KA, AKC-CGC
and dog trainer at Best Friends Animal Society,
provided by SwellPets

So, a two-month old dog could refrain from going to the toilet for a maximum of three hours.

 

There are plenty of products available to new pet owners who need some help training their dogs, such as puppy training pads. Dogs Trust recommends finding an area of the house where people don’t mind accidents occurring and where a pet can be placed if owners cannot be there for its training.

 

If people do not have the time to spend training a dog, they could be much better off getting an older pet, as Ms Dormer explained they are usually housetrained if being adopted in later life.



 

Furthermore, they need less exercise as they are usually not as energetic as puppies and they also have a greater attention span for learning.

 

The expert added “puppies have to be shown practically everything you want them to learn”, while older dogs will generally know everything already and be aware of what they can and cannot chew in a house.

 

House training Tips for Puppies: Ceasar Milan

 

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We used a timer at our house, to let us know when
it was time to let our beagle pup out. Sometimes
you can forget.

Using a clicker we would also click and treat,
when our puppy went potty outside. As the years went by
and our beagle got older, he would paw at the door,
to let us know, he needed to go out.

Above all, be patient.

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Puppy Training

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When is a good time to start puppy training?

English: A purebread beagle puppy at 6 weeks old

If your like me, you start right away. Most of us start with basic potty training for
our puppy.

Once your puppy starts getting their adult teeth you can start some obedience
puppy training. Puppies start getting their adult teeth around four months of
age.

From my own experience I have found that you can teach them far easier
at this age. They seem to understand what you want them to do. You
can hold their attention a little longer.

DogProblems.com has some good guides to
follow on puppy training

1. Prevent your puppy from picking up bad habits. – This means: Your puppy is like a baby. If you can’t keep one eye on your puppy at all times, then he needs to be in his play-pen or crate. I.E. Someplace where he cannot learn bad habits or get into trouble. Or put something in his mouth that he shouldn’t.

 


2. Expose your puppy to as many different environments and different types of stimulation as you possibly can. There is a tug-of-war between dog trainers and veterinarians: Dog trainers want you to take your puppy out into the world and expose him (within reason) to as many different things as possible. Make every new experience for your puppy a positive one, and a game.

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Beagle Clicker Training Tips:

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Our first beagle Hunter Warrior was very responsive to clicker training.
We found a great book called Clicker Training for Obedience

It was very easy to follow. We taught our beagle tricks like find it, crawl and dance.
These tips are from a top Obedience competitor on clicker training from Hugpages.com

Find a place with little or no distractions to begin training
Simply, prepare some treats, about 30 pieces, click and immediately treat your dog. Continue doing this, clicking and feeding the dog one treat after each click

 

As you do this, watch for understanding. Does your dog get all excited the moment it hears the click? If yes, your dog has picked up the association that a click equals a treat.


 

Congratulations, you have completed setting up the clicker.
After finishing the 30 treats, if your dog has still not picked up the association, simply wrap up the lesson.
Continue repeating these 30 treat sessions a few hours apart each time (using the above steps) till your dog get’s all excited the moment it hears the click.
Once your dog understands that a click means that it has earned itself a treat, you have succeeded setting up the clicker.

 

Meanwhile, when setting up the clicker, be mindful not to overfeed your dog. If necessary, you may wish to cut your dog’s ration and set aside a portion of it for clicker training so as not to risk overfeeding.

 

How to Use a Clicker
Once you have successfully set up the clicker, you can begin teaching behaviours using the clicker. Here’s how…

Mark or Capture the Behaviour

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Barking: Tips on quieting them down

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Our beagle use to bark alot when we would go out.
It was tough trying to get him to quiet down.
We tried a few things like a different routine
and a quiet command.

Nothing really helped us. I stumbled on this article on
the HumanSociety.com. The following are some good
techniques to stop barking.

Keep these tips in mind while training:

 

Don’t yell at your dog to be quiet—it just sounds like you’re barking along with him.
Keep your training sessions positive and upbeat.
Be consistent so you don’t confuse your dog. Everyone in your family must apply the training methods every time your dog barks inappropriately. You can’t let your dog get   away with inappropriate barking some times and not others.
Here are some common situations that make dogs bark with solutions specific to each:

 

Here are some common situations that make dogs bark with solutions specific to each:

 

Barking at passersby: Remove the motivation
Barking when confined: Ignore the barking
Barking at other dogs: Desensitization and counter conditioning
Barking at intruders at the door: Teach your dog the “quiet” command or ask your dog for an incompatible behavior
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Remove the motivation
Your dog gets some kind of reward when he barks. Otherwise, he wouldn’t do it. Figure out what he gets out of barking and remove it. Don’t give your dog the opportunity to continue the barking behavior.

Example: Barking at passersby
If he barks at people or animals passing by the living room window, manage his behavior by closing the curtains or putting your dog in another room. If he barks at passersby when he’s in the yard, bring him into the house to manage the situation. Never leave your dog outside unsupervised all day and night.

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