Many pet dogs love to dig, yet you can eliminate this habit if you understand the proper technique to train your canine. Like many dogs,  German Shepherds get bored very easily from their day-to-day routine and sometimes turn to undesirable conduct like digging, chewing and excessive barking. This post contains some German Shepherd training tips to help you prevent and stop your pet from digging and other behavior problems.

To ease canine separation anxiety (CSA), give him enough exercise. A tired dog is a happy dog. Slip in and out of the house without creating a big deal out of it. Sometimes bidding goodbye to your furry companion rises his stress. If you see that your pet has associated something like picking up keys with leaving, then start doing the deed several times a day to quell negative emotions. Dogs with separation anxiety should not sleep in their human’s bed. Fido may be comfy, but unfortunately, sleeping in bed often causes dogs to build unhealthy, obsessive fixations on their owners. By giving your furry friend a crate or bed of his own, he’ll have his personal space and learn a little independence.

Stop your furry companion from eating feces! For whatever reason, some dogs tend to eat feces, either because it tastes great or they are bored. A different concept is that a dog will eat his feces because he sees the owner cleaning it up and is attempting to mimic that behavior. If you notice your four-legged companion doing this, use the basic ‘leave it’ command. If your four-legged companion already knows this command, it’s going to work immediately. Reward positive behavior. One last thing – dogs will eventually grow out of this routine by themselves, so do not worry too much regarding it.

One way to stop your dog from barking excessively, is to make him more comfortable with whatever it is he barks at so frequently. Dogs bark at anything that frightens or threatens them, so if you show your canine friend that the object of their anxiety is nothing to be afraid of, he will end barking.

Some German Shepherd training strategies advise that you give your dog a treat as a reward for good performance. This is a great technique but be certain you’re not giving your dog a treat each time he performs the task. If you do, he come to expect the treat every time and when you cease with the treats, the obedience stops as well. Instead give the dog a treat at random so that he won’t start to expect when he gets a treat.