What's the best way to train rottwielers, and boxers?

I have had & trained both breeds (3 Rotts, & 3 Boxers): Rotties soak up training like a sponge, can practice for long periods of time & are happy just to see they are pleasing you...Boxers, however, burn out if you keep at the repetition too long (do best when you keep training periods short, but more of them), and don't seem to enjoy it much - kind of do it grudgingly. So who knows which way your mix will lean?

Should be an interesting combination!

I think dogs respond well when the two of you know how to communicate with each other and you use positive reinforcement. You're the momma dog, the alpha female, and she has to listen to you. Not to mention if she is a good girl there may be treats in it for her.

In a pack, the higher ranking animals eat first. The trainer I hired would have me eat my meal first. Then I would fill my dog's bowl with her food and tell her to wait. She had to sit there and stare at her food until I said "Okay." At first we would say no and have to keep putting her back in the starting position, sitting her a few feet from the dish, and repeating the wait command. After a few tries she caught on really quickly. The better she got at it, the longer she would obediently wait. Now if I'm going through a doorway, out the front door or something and I don't want her to follow me I can tell her to "Wait" and she will sit there and wait like a good girl. After learning the wait command and having her wait until I said okay to gobble her food, she understands in dog terms that I'm the boss, and listens much better than when I first got her. It made all the subsequent training go much smoother.

Later on, this trick can be used to teach her to hold a treat on her nose. You just tell her to wait, while you balance the treat on her nose, and if she waits until you say okay, then she can have the treat and lots of praise. If she tries to grab the treat early you take it away (in the beginning you'll need to be ready for that) and tell her wait. She'll get it after a while.

Of all the tricks, WAIT was the most useful one the trainer taught her. If you hire a trainer, pick one that makes housecalls and believes in involving you in the training. That way the dog learns to listen to you not just the trainer. I also am not a fan of training that keeps the dog away from home for an extended period of time.

Keep training sessions short, especially for puppies. Probably go one trick at a time. And once it's working, keep it up even if just on occasion so they don't forget the tricks you both worked so hard on.

If you use a specific hand signal along with each command, eventually the dog will listen just by hand signals. My boyfriend is a huge Star Wars fan, and he did that when training his german shepherd Chewbaca. Now he can make people think he commands her by jedi tricks because the hand signals for sit and lay down look like hand motions the jedi use in the movies. It's great.

It's probably best to feel her out yourself, especially since with a mix, any breed-specific advise really wouldn't apply. Try starting with just giving attention as a reward and move to treats if that doesn't work. A surprising number of dogs can be trained to sit and stay and walk on a leash without using any treats at all.

Sounds like you already know!

The one thing I'd watch for with rotties is agressive behavior and nip it in the bud. They are so powerful that an agressive rottie is really a thing to be feared.

I've used a bunch of different training methods, and am not opposed to prong collars when truly necessary, but positive reinforcement definately gets the best results and is the most fun for the dogs!

Good luck with your baby!

With patience. love, understanding and consistency just as you would use when training anything.

Never hit, never yell. If the animal gets upset or frustrated end the lesson and try again another time.

That's all I have to offer.

Good luck with your very intelligent little thing. The intelligent ones are so fun to train! The only problem that you might have is running out of things to teach her! LOL

I have owned 3 rotts and they where all good dogs. Positive reinforcement is a must. Also you need to socialize this breed alot or you could have your hands full. and you must very patient with them they can be very stubborn at times. and rotts also want to be around all the time they don't like to left alone. When ever i left a room they would be right behind me.

obedience classes, clicker training, or just good old discipline training.

my grandma used those choker chaincollars for her boxers as did my mom for 4h but they were trained in dog obedience classes to do so....but go to proffesional training classes....if you do use a choker collar get trained or read a book an you never leave it on except when you are training them, because it can be dangerous to them.

Obedience training classes.