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Dog Training To Avoid DistractionsFirst you need to find the right location to train your pet. Pick an environment that has very few distractions. You want to be the most interesting thing in the room. This means indoors is best. There are too many distractions outside. Kids playing and cars going by all compete for your attention and just may outrank you. If you consistently use the same room in the house to train, he will automatically focus on you. Keep it consistant whenever you want to teach somethiing new. Only when he understands a new command or behavior do you start practicing dog training in different environments if you want your pet to be well-behaved in public. As we said, many dogs are well-behaved in the privacy of their homes but turn unstable when a friend comes over or he goes to the park. This is because he does not integrate distractions in his dog training unless you help him. If you always work in the kitchen and practice having your pet sit two feet in front of the sofa, he will think the sit command means "sit two feet in front of the couch". When you take him to the kitchen and ask him to sit in fron of the refrigerator, he's thinking "You're nuts! How can I sit here? There's no couch!". You start to think your dog is stubborn, or dumb because he's ignoring you command. Not true. When you move to a new environment or add distractions, you'll likely have to back up a few steps to let him know that "sit" means the same thing everywhere, whether there's a couch there or not. Group dog training classes are great for this. But you'll need to find many more opportunities for him to know "sit" happens everywhere. When he becomes acustomed to working in different environments, he'll learn new things in spite of reasonable distractions.
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