In this article i will tell you some of my experiences with a German Shepherd dog and what i found out and learned from that experience, this was a long time ago and i have gotten another view of how training is to be done  German Shepherds, but this is a true story and hopefully you will have some conclusions to draw from it. Training German Shepherds can be a difficult chore, if you make it out that way. You can not hide that training German Shepherds can be a difficult and be demanding on the handler,  i don’t like the word owner so i will use the word handler. The German Shepherd is a very strong dog and i had the privilege of trying to train the dog, and i failed miserably. Why did i fail?  Well because of thinking that i could get the knowledge solely out of books, and not by having the dog to a proper training course with, other people and other dogs.  It is very important to proper socialize a dog so that he learns to get a long with other dogs and other people.

What problems did i have with my dog?  Well he was pulling the leash, and when walking along roads where there where occasionally drive cars by, he would tens up when the car came towards us and try to jump the car when it was close enough.  So how did i react to this problem?   What  i usually would do was to shorten he leash and showing the dog with my body language that the car was a danger, because i would know that he would try to jump at the car.  Sometimes i actually had to fight with him to stop him from doing that, and i mean take him down and hold him.  At one time he actually broke the leash an ran in front of the car and was hit by the car,  fortunately the driver of the car an old lady that managed to stop the car.  I ran at the dog and took a closer look at him to see if he was hurt, because it sounded like that, it was a grate thud and i thought that he must been hit badly,  but  in training German Shepherds it must have given him a strong constitution,  he was just dancing around like he wanted to say to me,  hey this is fun i got the car, so i checked him out and he was unharmed, and the car was okay to, but i guess the little  lady in the car got a scare.

This was the most difficult problem i had with my dog, a problem that really could be solved.  How do i know that, well because i did have my dog to a proper dog trainer once in a while,  and when i got him back he was like another dog, respectful and  a joy to walk with. But when i had had him for a while after getting him back, the training he had gotten wore off, because i had not learn t what he picked up from the trainer, that’s why i recommend that you at least have one course in training German Shepherds with a live trainer, if  he or she has been at it for a while, they can every trick in the book and it is totally worth it,  if you can get something of their knowledge into your dog handling.

But my problem was,  i did not connect the two together, i didn’t pursue the the tough of:   What did i do wrong?  I had other things to think about,  going to work and  getting the bills paid , so i just left it for later, thinking that i could solve the problems myself.  Notice…The best advice in training German Shepherds is this, you better overcome your own ego, because it will save you time and money if you do.  To try and do everything by yourself is not a good idea, it is like if you should take care of a child’s upbringing all by yourself, and ignore all advice other then from books.  If you think that you can learn it all from books,  i can tell you it’s not that easy, the problem is that you forget most of what you read, and in training German Shepherds you have to use time and consistency.  But one thing you can do and which can be of help is getting a proper video course, a training course with a live trainer can be expensive, but to watch on video how a proper trainer learns the dog and people together how to handle situations, that is a good add on to a live training course.

So if you want to train your dog and avoid situations like i had with my dog, here is the bottom line, it is possible to train the dog  yourself, but i recommend a live training course,  no one knows all there is to know about training German Shepherds,  but ” Erik Letendre “, have made an excellent video training program. Discover how to “Have a well behaved dog” here or you can visit the site directly to discover it yourself here, but no matter what your decision is, this training site will change the way you think about training German Shepherds or for that matter any dog, in a way you never have thought about it before.