Dog Training For Dog Shows
January 10th, 2011
Getting your dog ready for a dog show is something you want to be careful about because you don’t want to over work your dog while you are putting him through dog training. If you over work him, it could lead to bad results including him not feeling well or he won’t win the prize that you want at the dog show so you need to take it easy and take it one step at a time.
You have to have the proper training to get ready for a dog show but you can’t under any circumstances over do it. To get him ready, you may want to take him on long walks every day. This may be a good thing or it may be a bad thing. Dogs love going on walks but depending on where you live and what time of the year it is, then it might be too hot to take him on a long walk because dogs need water to drink.
If dogs don’t get enough water, then they won’t do what you want them to do. Besides you’ll find that they will be moving slow by dragging their paws and their tongue will be hanging out almost to the ground. Whatever the prize may be at the show, it’s not worth it to be over working your dog like this. You need to give them water when they need it so they can survive.
Some people may be overly obsessive about this kind of thing and they have always wanted to enter a dog show that they may give them protein shakes instead of water. You don’t want to do this; dogs are not people. All they need is food and water to survive. They will do fine at the show if you don’t work him too hard.
Dogs always need to look their best when they’re in front lots of people so you may want to either take him to be groomed or you might want to groom him yourself. A majority of the people would want to get their dog groomed somewhere because they want to have it professionally done, or other people might want to do it themselves because they don’t trust other people and they want it done how they want it done.
Grooming includes doing their nails, taking a bath and getting their coat nice and shiny, and depending on how obsessive you are over all of this you may want to see about getting their teeth cleaned. Don’t expect your dogs to wait patiently through when all of this is over. They might howl so loud you would think they’re being killed. Or you might have some dogs that will sit and weight until it’s over but don’t count on it.
Once the show finally arrives, this is when you see that all your training has paid off. If you trained him well without overworking him, then he’ll probably do really well and you might win. If you did over work him, don’t expect him to even get past the first round because he may be too tired.
The whole point of dog training is to spend time with your dog and not worry about whatever prize you’re going to be getting if your dog wins. Their’s more to winning then that. It’s getting the chance to train your dog well and getting in on a little one on one action with your dog.
