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Dog Obedience Training

Dog Trainers Please Help! My Dog is Out of Control!

Obedience training, generally involves teaching your dog the 7 basic obedience cues, namely: sit, stay, stand, down, come, fetch and heel. Easy as it sounds, many Singapore dogs are ignorant of these cues and continue to be a nuisance both to their owners as well as other people around them. So how do you tell if your dog needs a lesson in obedience?

Check if Your Dog Needs Obedience Training?

Does Your Dog Need Obedience Training?

Well, here are some questions that can help you decide. For example, does your dog:

  • Come promptly when called, even in the face of distraction?
  • Walk nicely on a loose leash or is he charging forward all the time while on leash?
  • Totally ignore you whenever you take him outdoors?
  • Charge at the gate, trying to go outside, whenever you open it?
  • Jump on strangers to greet them, often scaring them?
  • Bark at any or everything and refuse to stop, no matter what you do?
  • Growl when you go near his food bowl or if you take away something he likes?
  • Charge at other dogs or children whenever it has the opportunity?
  • Start begging, the moment you have food
  • Howling and crying whenever you leash or crate it up?

If your answer is yes to any of the above questions, both you and your dog will likely benefit from obedience lessons. And it’s best to start lessons soonest, before your dog picks up even more bad habits.


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Some Benefits of Dog Obedience Training

  • Better Control over Your Dog
Dog Getting Treat
Dog Getting a Well Deserved Treat

Dogs can sometimes get out of hand and hence need to be reined in. For example, they could be jumping at strangers, charging at little children, other dogs or even across a busy road endangering their own lives. Once, at a public dog event, a Chihuahua escaped from its owners, ran towards a Rottweiler and was fatally injured by the bigger dog. Thus by having control over your dog, many of these unfortunate incidents can be prevented, some of which may even save your dog’s life.

  • Better Quality Life for your Dog

If nothing else, they are welcomed and loved by more people. Take my dogs for example. Seeing the things they can do, most people are generally amazed and a number of my friends, who initially fear dogs, started having dogs of their own!

  • More Fun to Own

Imagine having a dog that does your every bidding happily, enthusiastically and willingly each time you ask. Isn’t it more fun to own such a dog. Or would you rather have one that totally ignores you, as though you are invisible?

  • Closer Bonding

Obedience training, when done the right way, through positive rewards based methods, increases your bonding with your dog. And to a dog lover, the feeling of being able to achieve such a strong bond with a dog is simply priceless.

  • Amaze People

If you like attention, this is definitely a plus. Yes, whenever I train my dogs outdoors, many people stop to watch. Why, because they are simply amazed. My dogs quickly become conversation starters, allowing me to easily make new friends effortlessly.

Ways to Obedience Train your Dog

There are typically 2 ways to obedience train a dog, namely, applying compulsion based methods, which we dislike and the more humane, dog friendly approach of clicker training.

In general, methods based on dominance over your dog or that places importance on the Alpha dog theory are likely compulsion based centered. Another tell-tale sign of compulsion being used in dog training is the sight of dogs with choke chain, pinch collar or even e-collar on.

Before Karen Pryor wrote her landmark book on clicker training titled “Don’t Shoot Your Dog,” it was generally accepted that traditional compulsion based methods were the way to go. Today, compulsion methods are old school and many top obedience dogs the world over are clicker trained.

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  • 100% Dog Friendly Clicker Training methods

Why resort to force when a more gentle, effective and humane method is available? For more details on clickertraining, please look up our Clicker Training page.

  • Title Winning Dog Trainers

Many dog trainers in Singapore have never won any major Dog Obedience Titles. At Dog Training Singapore, we ensure that our panel of dog trainers have at least won the Singapore Kennel Club Reserve Obedience Dog of the Year Title or have students that have won them. It’s our way of ensuring that you get the best dog training education possible if you do it through us.

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To sign up or find out more about our dog training programmes, simply call +6568714245 or visit the most suitable lessons page from our list below:

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If Not For Your Trainer, My Schnauzer Would Have Been Put to Sleep…

Irene Chua I would like to thank your trainer for all he has done. I was feeling helpless when I brought an abandoned Schnauzer (Fan Fan) back home because my JRT (Gal Gal) could not get along with her. They will react aggressively at the sight of each other. Because of your trainer’s coaching and help, my rehomed Schnauzer and JRT are now like best of buddies (see picture above). Your trainer has given me his time and energy by entertaining my sms and giving me guidance beyond the official lessons I paid for. Indeed he is a dog lover and not just a trainer. Despite a lot of trainers simply asking me to rehome her, your trainer gave me hope. If not for him, my Schnauzer would probably have been put to sleep at AVA. He is such a wonderful coach, one who trains out of love and that makes him totally different from other dog trainers.
Irene Chua’s Fan Fan and Gal Gal

The Training was a Rewarding Learning Experience…

Jon and Bigi with Cookie Thank you again for teaching us how to train our dog, and for coaching us in her initial training. Cookie is now a well balanced dog and we can enjoy her naturally nice temperament now that she is so much better trained. We totally underestimated what it meant to have a dog and didn’t realise that there is so much knowledge that already exists on how to train a dog. Thanks for unlocking this world for us. The training has made having a dog the fun we imagined it would be, as well as being a rewarding learning experience for us both. We really look forward to our Monday evening training sessions! You helped us big time, thanks again.
Jon & Bigi with Cookie

Calm, Patient and a Great Teacher…

Benjamin Ang and Bailey Your trainer has been a great encouragement during the training sessions. There were a lot of times that were annoying when my dog didn’t listen but he was calm and patient enough to guide me through! Overall, he has been a great teacher!
Benjamin Ang and Bailey

A Trainer Who Would Give Extra Remedial Lessons…

Elaine Lee with Cocoa Basic dog training class, which we attended, was both useful and enjoyable as we learnt lots on how to tackle some of the dog behavioural problems. What impressed us was that the trainer had also taken extra effort to give “remedial” class to train Cocoa when we had problems handling her. The end result? An obedient and well-trained dog we are proud to bring out!
Elaine Lee With Cocoa

Class Was So Fun and Enjoyable…

Mary Swee with Chanel Chanel is our 8 month-old hyperactive silky terrier. She used to bite off paint from walls; chewing fabric off sofas and dining chair; tearing newspaper and tissues in pieces all over the floor. Hence prior to the training lessons, it was indeed a traumatic experience to manage our dog. We signed on the basic package which enrolled Chanel for the 10 weeks course. Overall am very impressed with your trainer’s 100% dog friendly techniques and positive methods in engaging both owners and their dogs in the lessons. Chanel learnt the basic behaviour well throughout the course duration. Indeed am very happy with the result that she is more well behaved and easier to manage than before. Your trainer has been very patient with the class and helped us to train our dogs into an obedient and well-behaved one. We would like to thank him for his regular advice and follow ups to ensure we do revised the training methods. And not forgetting that he has also made class fun and enjoyable for Chanel.
Mary Swee with Chanel

I Learnt Useful Tips to Handle Dog Aggression Issues…

Amanda Tan with Piggy I would like to thank your trainer for teaching me how to handle my Dachshund Piggy. Pig has aggression issues and your trainer did a short session with us both and he gave me useful tips to tackle Pig’s aggression and stubbornness. Not to mention he was extremely patient with us and I would like to take this opportunity to thank him for all that he has done. Highly recommended.
Amanda Tan and Piggy

An Incredibly Patient Dog Trainer…

Joanna Han with Bailey Being a “first-time” pet owner, it was challenging and at times overwhelming for me when I did not know how to manage Bailey’s temperament and behaviour. Therefore, I decided to seek you trainer’s guidance, to help me understand and bond with my new furry companion. He was incredibly patient with Bailey and myself during training classes. His constant encouragement and dedicated attitude makes every lesson enjoyable for us. In addition, he is very flexible and devises training methods according to the personality or temperament of both puppy and handler. Though bespoke, all his methods are centred on the concept of reward-based training techniques, and this has made the whole learning experience a positive and rewarding one for Bailey and I. Thank you.
Joanna Han and Bailey

An Awesome Dog Trainer…

Lim Sherchan with Cookie Really dedicated trainer who puts in 101% of effort in training your dogs. I had a great time training my dog under him, he’s very approachable and gives awesome tips on dog training. My dog is so much more obedient after undergoing the training. In a nutshell, An Awesome Dog Trainer!
Lim Sherhan and Cookie

Happy (Our Dog) Passed the Basic Obedience with Flying Colours…

Ivory Chong with Happy Your trainer is a very responsible and knowledgeable. He would always call and check if we have any questions about the exercise. Very approachable, always a call away. Happy passed the basic obedience with flying colours!
Ivory Chong and Happy

The Best Benefit of Training is a Happier Dog…

Christophe Linot and Prune When we had to go through our dog training for AVA, I shall say that I was not convinced it will bring much as Prune was already doing quite well. Your trainer through his dedication and excellent knowledge of dogs has proven me wrong! He has demonstrated very good understanding of Prune qualities and behaviour as well as the relation with its owner. Based on this, we(my daughter, my son, my wife, and myself) have been able to better understand Prune, to further improve the relationship with her. We have also bring her to a better control and management. The best benefit out of the training is a happier dog!
Christophe Linot and Prune

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