Training

As it was mentioned before the Shepherd dog belongs to a very specific breed and requires a very thorough approach to its training. By the age of 9 months you should be sure about obedience of the dog, it should already have been formed. To make this task easier we would recommend that an expert starts to train it when it's 7 or 8 months old. However, the training should mean only teaching to obedience!

When training your dog you should be aware of the following:

• the Caucasian Shepherd Dog and The Central Asia Shepherd Dog are not servant or workaholics by their nature. They are thinking dogs!
   
• 99% of them don't have a natural reflex of fetching things they will do you want them to do only if they find it necessary or justifiable.

In our opinion, the dog has to learn:

command "heel" to walk alongside you
command "stop" to stop moving
"No"  "Taboo" as general prohibition
"Come-to-Heel" , normally there are no problems with this command
" come"
"Teeth" and the ability to wear a muzzle