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Dogs like to live in a group and they have social instincts that can only be expressed by living within a group. For this reason it is known as a pack animal and within the pack there is one leader. When a puppy or dog becomes a member of your family it is joining your pack and it sees you or the person that leads the family as the pack leader. It looks to the leader to guide it and teach the rules of the pack. It also looks for guidance in dealing with situations outside the pack. It will accept these rules and will accept being disciplined if it breaks these rules. In this context, obedience training is the way that the people teach dogs how to behave in the confines of the family and in the wider human community. Because a dog has the instinct to need rules it is keen to learn what you have to teach.

So what should you teach your pet ? For many people their approach to obedience training is half hearted because they don't know what to teach or how to do it. It also takes time and consistency to get your message across to your dog. Eventually they lose the will to enforce the rules they have leaid down and the dog becomes confused. However it is important to teach your dog and ensure that he understands them. Here are the key skills that your dog should know so that you can control it and it can live safely in the human world.

It must be able to socialize with humans, dogs and other animals (principally your family and other pets like cats) in it's home and outside of the home.

It must trust people and be happy to be touched by humans.

It should be able to control any aggression.

It should accept restraint. This includes knowing how to walk in public on a lead without getting flustered or distracted by things around it.

It should react to your calls like coming when you call for it.

It should poop in an area that is determined by the pack leader.

It should be comfortable being alone from time to time.

If it can learn these skills then your pet will fit into the human world comfortably and will be a popular part of your own family.

Sit Stay Fetch is an obedience training course that will help you to teach your pet all these skills and a few more besides. It covers all these basics skills in an easy to understand method. It also gives you are plan to put the commands into practice and teaches a few more advanced obedience commands.

The sit stay fetch course e-book is the heart of the package. It is a content rich book that aims to teach you the philosophy behind obedience training and how to understand the psychology behind the course. It shows you how to understand what the dog is thinking. It also covers many of the bad behavioral traits that dogs have and explains why they do these things and how to stop them.

The final part of the course is teaching specific commands. This is done well for an e-book. It features a photograph of a dog and it's owner at each stage of the command. With each picture is an explanation of what to do and how to do it. By following the pictures and reading the accompanying text you can learn how to train your dog. All the necessary commands are covered and a few more advanced commands are featured. It is a very simple but effective teaching method and after a going through the command a few times you will have it memorized. There are a number of other books that come with the sit stay fetch package. They deal with dog health and care issues like how to groom your dog. There is also a book on how to be a pack leader which gives you an insight into how a dog thinks.

The course is also comes as an audio version. So if you don't get the time to read the book you can listen to the files instead. They are really helpful when teaching a command to your dog because you can listen to that command until you have it memorized.

The whole package can be downloaded and you can be using it in about 30 minutes.