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Basics of Great Dane Training
It’s essential for Great Dane parents like you to know certain basic factors that determine your relationship with your Great Dane and can go a long way in training him effectively.
Before you begin training your Great Dane, 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 Great Dane to have complete trust in you.
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How To Bond With Your Great Dane
Building a bond with your Great Dane is the first and the most crucial step involved in training him successfully. As soon as you bring your Great Dane home, you must first try to develop a caring and loving relationship with him in order to win his trust and confidence.
When Great Danes 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 and respect between you and your Great Dane.
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 Great Dane is almost impossible.
4 Golden Rules To Building A Relationship With Your Great Dane :
- Spend quality time together;
- Take him out in the world and experience life together;
- Establish and promote a level of mutual respect; and
- Develop a way of communicating to understand each other’s needs.
Building a bond with your Great Dane will not only help you manage him better but will also make your Great Dane calm, quiet and an extremely well-adjusted pet.
Love Your Great Dane and He Will Love You back
Once you’re succesful in building a bond with your Great Dane, you can rest assured that training him and teaching him new and clever tricks will be a cakewalk.
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How Your Great Dane Learns…
Your Great Dane’s learning period can be divided into five phases:
The Teaching Phase – This is the phase where you must physically demonstrate to your Great Dane exactly what you want him to do.
The Practicing Phase – Practice makes Perfect. Once a lesson is learnt, practice with your Great Dane what you have just taught him.
The Generalizing Phase – Here you must continue practicing with your Great Dane in different locations and in an environment with a few distractions. You can take your Great Dane 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 Great Dane 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 Great Dane 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 Great Dane.
There are only 2 possibilities:
- Your Great Dane succeeds!!! (Trumpets please!)
- In case your Great Dane fails, re-examine the situation. Review and/or change your training. Then try testing again.
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 Great Dane does everything he is taught to do even without your commands.
Remember:
- Never scold your Great Dane if he fails. It’s not his fault. You have failed as a trainer!
- You must be patient and persistent for your efforts to show rewards.
- Appreciate and love your Great Dane when he does it right! A little encouragement will work wonders for your Great Dane.
- Great Dane Training is easy when you do it right.
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Is Your Great Dane Potty Trained Enough?
House Training a puppy or adult Great Dane is such an essential issue for its owner that even a single exclusive tip turns out to be extremely helpful.
The first step in making your Great Dane fit for polite company would be to potty train him. Some see this training as a hassle and some as a challenge.
For me, it is part of bringing up a pet.
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There are a few things you need to know before you actually start potty training a puppy or adult Great Dane. I enumerate these below:
- You need to understand your dog’s body language. Watch for signs that will indicate to you when your pet wants to eliminate.
- If you own puppies, remember that they need to go potty at fairly frequent intervals – as soon as they wake up, after short naps, after play-time, after meals, before and after being crated and finally, before retiring for the night.
- Take your Great Dane for walks at the time that he usually does his potty. Take him out to the yard and then to the same place there every time he needs to answer nature’s call.
- Praise your Great Dane after he eliminates at the right place. Some Great Dane owners even give treats to their dogs. But remember to do this every time he does it right. He will relate the rewards to his having “done it right” and zero in on the spot where you want him to defecate regularly.
- With time, you can try signal training. This is so that you know when your doggie wants to go. You can hang a bell at his level near the door and teach him to push it with his nose or pat it with his paw on his way out.
- Until your Great Dane has been fully potty trained keep him under strict vigilance. Do not let him roam around the house freely.
- Use a crate. A crate-trained Great Dane is usually very happy to get his own den. The advantage of crating is that dogs do not soil the place where they sleep. So, he will naturally not eliminate inside the crate.
- If you have a small dog and if you live in a high-rise building or in a place that does not have a proper backyard, you can try litter pan training. What you do is create a space for your pet to eliminate in your house itself.
- Use positive reinforcements while housebreaking puppies or adult dogs. Do not scold or hit him as you will gain nothing by doing that. He will only associate punishment with your return from outside. If you catch him in the act, a stern ‘NO’ or ‘FREEZE’ will do. It will startle the Great Dane enough for him to stop pooping.
- Be prepared to return to a soiled home if you are keeping your Great Dane home alone for more than 4 hours as separation anxiety is quite common among home – alone dogs.
- Accidents will happen. It is unusual for a trained adult Great Dane to work against its house training. But medical problems or health disorders may lead to sudden accidents.
- Many dogs mark their territory. These can be a leg of a table or a particular wall. Intact male and female dogs mark their territories by urinating. Use deodorizers to spray on the places where your Great Dane has marked.
- If you are patient and are ready to accept that house training a dog takes time, even months sometimes, you will end up having a good housetrained Great Dane.
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Now we will move on to how to potty train puppies and adult dogs.
Potty Training A Puppy:
Irrespective of breeds, housetraining a puppy is considered to be one of the biggest challenges by dog owners. If you think housetraining your puppy simply involves a steady supply of old newspapers, then think again.
A puppy does not develop full control over his bladder until it is over 4 or 5 months old. Since they are growing and developing rapidly at this time, puppies eat more, burn more calories and need to eliminate more frequently than an adult Great Dane.
After each nap, meal, drink or play, take your puppy to his designated area (indoors or outdoors, wherever you have decided) and stay there until it eliminates. Then bring him to his crate.
Repeat this situation everyday until he has developed a habit out of it.
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Potty Training An Adult Great Dane:
The best way to housetrain an adult Great Dane is to begin all over again.
Observe him very closely. Maybe even maintain a diary of where he goes and when. Whether he is pooping when you are home or only when you are outside; whether you can time yourself to be home when he feels the need to go outside.
You can try dog crates, but be careful to introduce him gradually to them.
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Remember, commitment, consistency and intelligent use of positive reinforcement will make you the owner of a perfectly housetrained Great Dane. Don’t expect miracles. You will only be disappointed.
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Re Boundaries
I have found the use of baby gates quite effective for setting boundaries. Something about the noise it makes or that it stretches out freaks the dogs out and they understand that beyond the gate is a no go zone.