Dachshund

1 Is the Dachshund Easy to Train? Dachshund Training Tips

Dachshund training tips: because the Dachshund’s nervous function is imperfect and it lacks the ability to discriminate things, the trainer can easily contact it; through daily keeping, meeting its physiological and psychological needs from the two aspects of ‘eating’ and ‘playing’, behaviorally the Dachshund regards the trainer as its partner, and during training gradually builds a good attachment to the owner. Conversely, an adult Dachshund easily develops wariness toward strangers.

Dachshund training tips.

Cultivate courage: to survive, the Dachshund must constantly perceive and gradually familiarize and adapt to new things in the environment; only then can it ‘survive as the fittest’. For the Dachshund, as free-activity opportunities increase and environmental contact broadens, various stimuli can be encountered at any time, and their effect on the nervous system grows, which has strong allure for the Dachshund. Given this, training uses its stronger exploratory reflex to trigger the Dachshund’s exploratory response to new things, satisfying its curiosity; each new stimulus leaves a trace reflex of fear or indifference, gradually enriching its life experience and thus gradually familiarizing and adapting to the outside world.

Dachshund training tips.

Strengthen the body: due to long-term lack of exercise, the Dachshund easily gets rickets. Through puppy training, appropriately increasing exercise and regularly working the Dachshund’s physique is an important measure to treat and prevent this disease. At the same time, as exercise increases the muscle fibers thicken, blood vessel flow increases, resulting in full, firm, strong, and well-proportioned muscles, enhanced heart function, improved constitution, and increased disease resistance. Also, the stronger constitution increases work endurance and raises excitement, facilitating tracking, searching, and other tasks; appropriate exercise avoids the Dachshund being unusable for drug and explosive detection tasks.

Dachshund training tips.

Cultivate the Dachshund’s strong possessiveness toward objects, retrieve drive, and good attention. Using objects (including rewards) to train the Dachshund through retrieving is an important modern training means. Due to heredity, although the Dachshund has the function of a retrieve reflex, individual differences are large. Excitement toward objects is graded into three levels: especially excited with strong possessiveness; moderately excited; and not excited with no possessiveness. The latter two can only be changed through the puppy-training stage, using patient and clever inducement to fully mobilize and develop the Dachshund’s retrieve reflex, compensating for its congenital deficiency, thus laying an important foundation for the Dachshund’s identification, tracking, and other working abilities.