Dog Training the Clicker Way with Musical Canine Freestyle

Dog Training the Clicker Way with Musical Canine Freestyle

Article by Melanie McClure

Musical canine freestyle is a fun way to train your dog and get great exercise in for you and fido. It’s great for people and dogs of any age, size or breed. I started training dogs when I had my first two Australian shepherds. I enjoyed teaching them basic obedience, but I wanted to know what I could teach my dogs. Basic obedience training was easy and fun and I wanted something more advanced that I can teach a young age. I also need something I can teach in the comfort of your own home. I thought about agility training, but my dogs must past the age of one to get really into it and it takes a particular area with special equipment.

Then, I finally discovered musical canine freestyle. It is the best of obedience, agility and trick training and adds in some musical creativity and dance! My dogs loved it! You can start training puppies in canine freestyle early on and really jumpstart their learning. It really helped me burn my two aussies energy and make them more connected with me from the start. Mental exercise is far more stimulating than pure physical exercise and helps you get energetic or hyper dogs and puppies to expend their energy and become calm cuddle buddies much faster and easier.

Musical Canine Freestyle is a dog sport in which you do creative heelwork to music and add in all sorts of fun tricks like sit, lay, spin, jumps, leg weaves, and circle around, etc. The choreography of the routine is up to you to create and has very few limitations. You get to chose what actions work well for you and your dog and select music that compliments its movements so it looks like he is dancing.

Clicker training is the most efficient way to train your dog to dance. Trainers have found they can teach their dogs in a matter of minutes and weeks what it used to take forever to teach using clicker training methods. Clicker training is a positive reward based training system. During training, never give any punishments or use negative reinforcement. Your goal is to make your dog to look and be happy about his training time. Learning tricks and cool moves is always an optional thing for your dog to do. Some moves and tricks might be hard for him to do and may not be well suited for your dog. Listen to your dog and if you think that something is not right for him, move on to something else. Remember many moves and tricks can tax your dog’s body so be sure they are age appropriate and stop when you

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