Basics of Bergamasco Training
Its essential for Bergamasco parents like you to know certain basic factors that determine your relationship with your Bergamasco and can go a long way in training him effectively.
Before you begin training your Bergamasco, it is absolutely essential that you build a loving bond with him. This is important as it helps you to understand his needs and instincts and also allows your Bergamasco to have complete trust in you.
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How To Bond With Your Bergamasco
Building a bond with your Bergamasco is the first and the most crucial step involved in training him successfully. As soon as you bring your Bergamasco home, you must first try to develop a caring and loving relationship with him in order to win his trust and confidence.
When Bergamascos are secure in the knowledge that they belong to the family, they are more likely to respond better to their owners training commands. Just like with any relationship, there must be mutual trust and respect between you and your Bergamasco.
Trust takes time to develop and respect comes from defining boundaries and treating any breach of those boundaries with firmness and fairness.
Without enforceable limitations, respect can’t be developed. And when there is no respect, building a bond with your Bergamasco is almost impossible.
4 Golden Rules To Building A Relationship With Your Bergamasco :
- Spend quality time together;
- Take him out in the world and experience life together;
- Establish and promote a level of mutual respect; and
- Develop a way of communicating to understand each others needs.
Love Your Bergamasco and He Will Love You back
Once youre succesful in building a bond with your Bergamasco, you can rest assured that training him and teaching him new and clever tricks will be a cakewalk.
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How Your Bergamasco Learns...
Your Bergamascos learning period can be divided into five phases:
The Teaching Phase - This is the phase where you must physically demonstrate to your Bergamasco exactly what you want him to do.
The Practicing Phase - Practice makes Perfect. Once a lesson is learnt, practice with your Bergamasco what you have just taught him.
The Generalizing Phase - Here you must continue practicing with your Bergamasco in different locations and in an environment with a few distractions. You can take your Bergamasco out for a walk, or to a nearby park and command him to practice whatever youve taught him.
Practicing the learned lessons in multiple locations and in the presence of small distractions will help him learn and retain lessons better .
The Testing Phase - Once youre sure that your Bergamasco has achieved almost 90% success....he responds correctly almost every time you give a command, you must start testing his accuracy in newer locations with a lot of distractions.
Example: Take him to the local shopping mall and ask him to obey your command. He may not come up with the correct response the very first time you do this, but you must not lose hope.
The idea is to test your Bergamasco to see how he responds in an environment which is new to him. Set-up a situation where you are in control of the environment and your Bergamasco.
There are only 2 possibilities:
- Your Bergamasco succeeds!!! (Trumpets please!)
- In case your Bergamasco fails, re-examine the situation. Review and/or change your training. Then try testing again.
Keep on testing until he succeeds. Follow the rule of the 3 Ps – patience, persistence, praise.
Internalizing Phase - Finally, comes the extremely rewarding phase where your Bergamasco does everything he is taught to do even without your commands.
Remember:
- Never scold your Bergamasco if he fails. Its not his fault. You have failed as a trainer!
- You must be patient and persistent for your efforts to show rewards.
- Appreciate and love your Bergamasco when he does it right! A little encouragement will work wonders for your Bergamasco.
- Bergamasco Training is easy when you do it right.
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