The Poodle is one of the most trainable breeds of dogs. These dogs are easy to train, as they are always eager to please their owners and are by nature easygoing animals. The basic Poodle obedience training has it that the dog should know a few standard commands such as come, sit, down, heel, among others.

The Poodle is a great companion dog but it tends to have socializing problems at times. Therefore, it is often advisable to have your Poodle enrolled in a training class instead of having the trainer come home for training. In this way, your dog will learn as a by-product to socialize as well both with animals and people.

Among the most common commands your Poodle should learn will be sit, come, down, stay, heel and the like. You can teach these basic obedience commands at home as well because the Poodle is an easily trainable dog. However, having a trainer do it will be faster and less cumbersome for you.

The first basic command will be to teach your dog to come to you. This is one of the easiest of all Poodle obedience training because this is what it always loves to do ? come to you. All you have to do is make it do so at your command rather at its will. Put your dog on a long leash and walk ahead of the dog. When you are a little far, turn and show it the treat at the same time saying out loud come. As your Poodle bounces up to you, give it the treat and praise it loudly.

You need to teach this command initially with the leash on and then without the leash. Try making it more and more difficult like giving the command of come from inside the house, or a place where it cannot see you. Give this about a week’s time by the end of which you will find that the dog will have mastered the command.

Teaching the command heel to you Poodle may be the most difficult of all. This is because this dog is very restless and bubbly and too excited to find out what all the world is offering it to suppress its curiosity. In fact, this is the exact reason why Poodle obedience training should include this particular command.

Raise the hand above the dog’s head slowly ensuring that it is following the movement and then lower it towards its tail. At this point the dog will sit down so it can continue to watch your hand. Say the command loudly, give the treat and praise it profusely.

Repeat this until the dog stops pulling at the leash. As soon as you achieve this, give the dog the treat and praise it lavishly.

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