There are more than 5 simple ways to house train a doberman.
The intention of this article is to show you a few simple ways to house train your doberman.
Many people do not know, however, where to start with dog training. So they don’t bother. And eventually the doberman’s behaviors gets out of control.
Are there any secrets? Not really, most of it is common sense.
A friend of mine recently got herself a Doberman puppy, which is about 8 weeks old. He is a beautiful dog and will grow-up to be a fantastic watch-dog. However, after a few days my friend called me up and said she had a couple of problems that she needed help with.
Firstly, she lives in an apartment and was not sure how to toilet the dog.
Secondly, she did not know how to train him, or even if she should train him? What else should she do?
The first thing I told my friend that she needs to start doing as soon as possible is to start training her doberman. I recommended that she start crate training him from the beginning.
The dog should sleep in the crate every night. This will get him used to the idea of sleeping in the crate, and reduce the effect of separation anxiety. The crate is a place that the Doberman may sleep in as he gets older ( obviously my friend would buy a bigger one).
It isn’t just the dog that suffers from separation anxiety. After buying a crate and putting the puppy in it to sleep, she felt bad and took him out to sleep with her.
This is NOT a good idea. You must be clear in your actions once you do something that involves training. Dogs like this. You MUST follow through, no matter how bad you feel.
To help with the toilet issue a good idea is to take him for a walk to toilet before bed, and first thing in the morning. If you can’t take him for a walk, then take him outside for toilet instead.
This is an effective form of enforcement. Of course, little puppies need to go toilet quite often, so it is a good idea to buy a large absorbent mat, or mats, that you can put in certain corners of the house or apartment.
Training your dog to use those mats takes dedication on your part. You need to watch his behavior and when he is acting like he needs to go, pick him up and put him on the mat.
The following is a list of five things that I suggested that my friend do to help her:
The work that goes into owning a puppy can be very stressful. But the results from good training cannot be underestimated.
1) Exercise you dog everyday – Puppies have a lot of energy. Regular exercise does two things.
Firstly it establishes a routine – so make sure it is always about the same time.
Secondly this helps get a lot of their energy out and it really does reduce their need to cause trouble at home (i.e. chew stuff).
2) Once he gets a little older, start bringing him to dog parks so that he will become very dog friendly right from the start. The more contact dogs have with other dogs and people the better trained he will be, and there will be less issues when friends come to visit your apartment. There is nothing worse than a dog that barks at EVERYTHING.
If your dog is timid or shy – then introducing it to other dogs at a park is not such a good idea. You should wait until it gains more confidence.
And of course, always keep an eye on your dog while you are at the park.
3) Bring small children around him ASAP. This will help him get used to children’s smaller stature, as well as them tugging on his ears/tail, loud sudden noises that children make, etc.
It’s good to get your dogs exposed to all these things early on – before they become an 80lb solid mass of muscle with gigantic sharp teeth!
Pet and touch his food while he is eating it. Over time, your doberman will allow you to take the food bowl away and pet him while he is eating without any resistance.
4) Correct your puppy only at the exact moment he’s done something wrong, not an hour later.
5) Be clear with your commands. That way he will know what to expect from you. Dogs don’t like confusion they excel when given boundaries.
There is no point shouting at him about toileting on the carpet 1 hour after it has happened. As soon as he starts to look for a place to toilet and smell around, put him on a leash and take him outside so that he can relieve himself.
If my friend follows these simple ideas, her Doberman will become a well-trained, extremely sociable dog that will love to be around other dogs, people and small children.
These five suggestions are only a few of the many that my friend will need to learn when house training her doberman.
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Really really helpful tips! thank you very much! I never though about put a children neat a puppy as soon as possible but i actually think that is a good idea…. it can really help you after!
I’ve also found some good information in this Doberman Training website.
I hope someone can find it intersting too!
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i hope my german shepard will get along with him and hope these tips will work.
Doberman Pincher Dog Breed Blog Thank you for tell about these five ways for Doberman training which is very easy…..
really i liked this but i have a small problum about my daborman……when a new person came to my home it roars and run away from there it feel fear i think give me a solution for this problum ….my dog have 7 months old………….
The story is good, especially the part about acclimating the dog to children. My wife and I had a doberman girl for years. We got a Rott later as a friend for her.(a mistake. I should have gotten another dobie). Then when the doberman was older we had a girl child and the doberman never accepted her. She never hurt the child, but she had no patience for the child messing with her and she would growl at the kid. The kid just blew off her and was never frightened by her, she just left her alone. So if they don’t grow up with kids, the won’t good with them later. Its just that Dobies are real “civil” animals, Good Germans. Dobies believe everybody ought to act right and respect each other. They are really very good citizens. My doberman would always walk on the sidewalk and never never cut across the grass. Dobies will growl at children when do something wrong, as she sees it. They might even snap at them, even kind of pop them with their teeth. But trust me, if they wanted to hurt the child, they could, but they won’t. They are just correcting the child in the only way they know how. Who the heck is this kid to come into the dog’s house, where she has lived in a routine for years and start messing with her. Parents often overreact to the dog. Put acclimation can help this quite a lot.
I guess the thing I would like to say is. I got a dog trainer to come over when the dog was fairly young, maybe 6 months. The bathroom thing was fairly easy. Walk the dog. Scold her when she goes in the house. You don’t need to beat a Doberman. But if you are a single woman and you have a male doberman, I would recommend a trainer. I am big and there was never any doubt who was alpha, but I think it is someone essential with boy dobies to show them you are boss. Raising your voice will generally do it. I would recommend a woman to get a female dobie. First there is less macho competition but second, the mind sets are really similar. A female dobie is really incredibly smart and very devoted to the woman in the house. There was no doubt in my house over who’s dog that dobie was. When my wife went to bed, the dobie went to bed with her. They went in the car together. When my wife cooked, the dobie would sit in the kitchen with her. My wife would talk to dog just like a girlfriend “Miss, I think the cookies need more sugar”.
But I would get a trainer at least for 1 session. He can evaluate your situation and give you some good habits and good tips. We went outside and worked together on how to walk the dog on a leash, with “stop, sit, stay, lay, and come” voice and hand commands. It only took one session and then the dog and I worked together for a few days. She got it down quickly and it got kind of boring and we never really messed with again.
So, like 3 years later, we were at an outdoor festival that went along this big urban street with 5 lanes of traffic. The dog was off her leash and we went to cross the street. We were about half way across and the “walk” sign started flashing. I said “Come on miss, we gotta run” and took off. Any other time she would have followed, but with all the cars and people, she turned around and went back to the other side. The light changed and the cars started moving. Miss was panicking being on the other side of the street and she was kind of pacing and didn’t know what to do, like she was about to try to cross to get to me. This is across 5 lanes of traffic, horns, car noise, a really busy intersection. I held up my hand with the “Stay” hand signal, raise your hand with your palm facing the dog, and she froze in place. Kept in mind that she is 50 feet away with moving cars in between and we haven’t done anything with these signals for years. Then I gave the “Sit” signal, snap your fingers and point your index finger down, and she sat down without hesitation. She knew I was putting the situation in control. There were people by me watching this, worried to death she would run in front of the cars. When she sat down immediately on a hand signal, no voice command because it was useless at this distance with the noise, the people were amazed and said “I can’t believe what I just saw”. When the light changed I gave the “come” signal, you do your whole hand straight down like you were starting a race and leave it pointing to the ground it in front of you. She sprinted over full speed.
So the trainer had payoff if only for that incident. We didn’t train the rott the same way and I always regretted it. I thought he was too stupid for it.
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