subject: How To Get Your Dogs To Try Dog Beds [print this page] Getting dogs to use dog beds is often effortless or quite a task. Based on when you start training dogs to use dog beds you may find it to be an easy thing to teach or one that might have you considering sleeping in a dog bed yourself.
Countless dog owners choose dog beds as soon as they get a dog. If you start teaching your dog to sleep on a dog bed from their first night at home youll observe that it is a good deal simpler than training a dog that was slumbering elsewhere.
A new dog needs to be shown to his bed at night. You could call the dog over to the bed and encourage him to lie down. If they get off the bed to go to snooze somewhere else take them back to the bed. You might need to continue with this until they fall asleep. Usually they will get into the pattern of sleeping on dog beds after several evenings.
Getting Your Dogs off of Your Bed and into Dog Beds
Dogs used to sleeping in human beds may be more tricky to teach to snooze in dog beds. They have been trained that its all right to sleep in a human bed and may not grasp why all of a sudden they are supposed to be staying on another bed.
You should be particular how you teach dogs to sleep on dog beds. If the reason that you want the dog to sleep on a dog bed is that you're not single anymore, you need to be sure that that the dog does not start to resent the other person. You need to make dog beds appear to be a treat and not a punishment.
I suggest you begin by giving the dog a treat anytime they lay on the dog bed. Even if it is not to sleep, whenever the dog goes onto the dog bed you ought to reward him or her with a dog snack and positive words.
Slowly you need to begin getting the dog to sleep on the dog bed. Dog beds can be located near your bed so they feel close to you. You can move the dog beds later if you do not want them right next to your bed for any reason.
Encourage the dog to lie on the dog bed and reward him with a dog treat. Pet them and rub their bellies or anything else they enjoy. They will start to link the dog bed with rewards. You will have to be firm whenever the dog wants to leave the dog bed and on your bed.
If they leave the dog bed and go to your bed tell them No in a stern voice and point them back to their bed. Dont offer them a dog snack but give them encouraging words of encouragement. If you offer them a treat when they get off your bed and go on the other bed they could link your bed with the treat.
It may take several evenings or even a couple weeks before your dog is trained to slumber on dog beds. Once they get accustomed to dog beds you should try to never encourage them to get back onto your bed or you may confuse your dog.
Go ahead and choose dog beds comfortable and large enough for your dogs and begin to coach them how to slumber on their bed.
