Greyhounds are smart, kind, considerate, sensitive, affectionate, well-behaved, and love children. They are now people's caring companion dogs. Like other dog training methods, greyhound training also requires patience from the owner. However, one of the more special skills of greyhounds is catching rabbits. The most important thing when training greyhounds to catch rabbits is to train them how to hold them. The ideal thing is to train it to be interested in rabbits, but in urban areas this training is basically not required. Every greyhound owner hopes to train a very good dog, so how to train a greyhound?

1. How to train a greyhound

Greyhound is one of the ancient dog breeds. It is a purebred dog whose appearance has not changed since ancient times. A visual hunting dog that was first trained to use sight to track prey. Greyhounds are a unique kind of racing dog. Training greyhounds requires a detailed and systematic training manual, paying attention to energy sources, training methods, etc. Part of the training requires force and coercion, so that it must be completed according to the instructions. The training items must be repeated, but each training time should not be too long. The dog will easily tire, which is not conducive to achieving the training effect. So what do you need to pay attention to during training?

2. Key points of greyhound training

(1) During training, as long as you find that the greyhound is trying hard to do what you want, you should give kind words of praise, and sometimes feed some food to encourage it. Using scolding language or beating and scolding the dog will cause The opposite effect, this will not achieve the purpose of training.

(2) Correct education and training of greyhounds is an art, especially when training, it needs to be carried out systematically and scientifically. Unscientific behavioral training, such as treating greyhounds casually, or even playing with greyhounds, A greyhound owner who raises a greyhound for fun, or to tease or intimidate others, will never train a good greyhound, and may even develop a greyhound into a harmful dog.

(3) Training a greyhound should be carried out when it is young. First of all, it cannot be required to obey everything, just like a child. However, during the breeding process, the greyhound must be pointed out the things that are taboo for it. In this way, as the greyhound grows older, it learns to obey. If you find that the greyhound has done something wrong, punish it in time. Note that punishment does not mean beating or scolding, but scolding it severely so that it understands that it is being punished for doing something wrong. Punishment can only be implemented when it is caught on the spot doing something it is not allowed to do. Punishment afterward is wrong, otherwise the dog will not understand the reason.

(4) During the period of training the Greyhound, it is best for the owner to raise and manage the Greyhound himself. Be gentle in your speech and generous in your behavior when feeding your Greyhound and every time you come into contact with your Greyhound. Coupled with daily grooming and cleaning, playing with the greyhound will gradually eliminate the greyhound's defensive response to itself, and become familiar with your smell, voice and action characteristics. When a greyhound expresses a friendly and excited response to its owner, it meansGreyhounds can be trained.