How To
Muzzle Train your dog

Not everyone who muzzle trains their dog has an aggressive dog

There are any number of reasons why you would choose to do this, including, preventing your dog eating inedible objects and causing a blockage, stopping them from eating other animal faeces on a walk, teaching them to remain calm and for veterinary staff safety when being handled through pain.  If my dog has an accident and needs surgery or extensive painful physio work, I don’t want the first time he wears a muzzle to be a traumatic experience on top of what else has happened to him – same goes with crate training.

If you have an aggressive dog, it’s important that you learn how to muzzle train your dog so that your dog is comfortable before you approach a professional for aggression rehab assistance.

If you need a professional to muzzle train a dog for you it will take considerably longer and be considerably more expensive for you.

We’ve trained an adult Dobermann to accept wearing a muzzle and to be happy about it in 10 sessions.  We do this using positive reinforcement and patience to shape the wanted behaviour in increments.  With this dog it took a total of 10 sessions to achieve – 5 days.

Watch the videos below and follow the same steps yourself to achieve the result of muzzle training a dog who you’ll find is happy to wear his muzzle.