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All About Training Bouvier des Flandres Dogs and Puppies
Training is essential for this breed. Basic obedience and household rules training both need to be given serious attention early if you want this dog to live under your rules.
As an absolute minimum, you must teach him to unquestioningly respond to basic commands to come, to lie down, to stay, and to walk at your side, on or off leash and ignore distractions. You MUST also teach him to follow your household rules, if you plan to have this dog spend any time inside the house. Is he allowed to get on the furniture? If he allowed to beg at the table - he will do so regularly.
This dog is both intelligent and very self-assured and will not hesitate to challenge soft leadership of his pack.
What you allow or forbid is unimportant; but it is critical that you, not the dog, make these choices and that you enforce your rules consistently. You must commit yourself to take the training seriously as this is not a dog that can be trained for you by another person. Perhaps attending an 9 to 10 week series of weekly lessons at a local obedience club or professional trainer and to doing one or two short (20 minutes) homework sessions per day. Failure to properly train the dog can lead to any number of difficult or embarrassing situations. This powerful breed was used to control cattle and oxen and will find little trouble in dominating your home or your guests or pulling the leash out of your hands should he decide to chase something.
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