7 Essential Commands Every Dog Should Learn

Online, August 3, 2010 (Newswire.com) - For the well-being of pets, their owners, and the community, it's wise to make sure a dog understands and obeys seven important commands. Not only could this training one day save the life of a dog or person, but they also make a canine/human relationship far more enjoyable.

The new down-loadable booklet, "Teach Your Dog 7 Essential Commands" (AnswerGirls $1), describes each of these vital instructions and the teaching process involved, with a couple of extra commands thrown in just for fun. This booklet is available exclusively from www.AnswerGirls.com. The author shared these tips:

"By the age of one year, a dog should be able to learn and obey. Dogs are capable of learning throughout their active life. However, like humans, they learn faster with motivation.

Most of us find it a great deal easier to remember the menu at our favorite restaurant, or who starred in what film, than how to conjugate irregular French verbs. But give us a little motivation-like an all-expense-paid trip to Paris-and those irregular verbs will be etched in our mind in an instant!

While teaching verbal commands, it's important to use that opportunity to add hand signals, so the dog recognizes both. If you assign a non-verbal command to each one...you'll both soon be experts in your own form of sign language."

This handy booklet outlines the basic training procedure in seven easy-to-follow steps, and it gives particular advice for teaching each of the seven commands, from the initial, "Sit" to the more complex, "Leave it" or "Stay" and Okay."

To learn how to teach your dog these potentially life-saving directions, download ""Teach Your Dog 7 Essential Commands" at www.AnswerGirls.com/living1.html.