dog obedience

Pet behavior class

Dog obedience refers to a dog's responsiveness to commands and willingness to follow its owner's or handler's directions.

The term most often appears in the context of training: dog obedience classes, dog obedience school.

Such training teaches dogs basic commands like sit, stay, and come, while also socializing them with other animals and people.

Dog obedience competitions test how precisely dogs perform standardized exercises under a handler's direction.

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stay · command · voice command · hand signal · leash · treat · reward · positive reinforcement · handler · discipline · submission · fetch · come · down · correction · praise · whistle · collar

Opposites
compliance vs. defiance

dog obedienceselective hearing

Unconsciously filtering unwanted input

excessive barking

trained vs. untrained state

dog obedienceunruly behavior

Conduct resisting control

lack of training

controllability

dog obediencebehavioral problems

Patterns of disruptive conduct

Family

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