The training of dog begins during the period in its life when its socialization skills are being developed. If you train a dog too early, it will not learn anything because it hasn't developed to the extent that it can learn. Training your dog when it has already developed its own undesirable characteristics may prove to be an extremely difficult task.
Don't make the mistake of buying plush toys for your dog to chew on because it won't be able to tell the difference between a plush toy and a plush pillow. In selecting chew toys for your dog, buy a few that are the same in size and color in other to help your dog keep track of them. Buying your dog a myriad of chew toys can confuse it and defeat the aim of distracting it from chewing your valuables.
Make sure that you get all the members of your household involved in the dog training session so that they too will be able to exercise some form of authority and control over your dog too. If you are the only person your dog listens to, when you are away, other people at home will not to be able to exert some form of control over it and that can cause problems.
You must let your dog know when it has exhibited an undesired behavior by giving it a no reward marker. A no reward marker basically communicates the fact to your dog that there isn't going to be any reward for a particular action
Remote collar training is excellent for working dogs because they tend to get separated from their owners while in the line of duties. Dogs that go far to look for people or things in the course of training can be called back using an electronic collar. An electronic collar basically prevents a dog from going too far off from the home or from its owner.
The click training refers to the use of the clicker to train your dog. Click training is especially good for people who have a problem maintaining a steady voice tone to when issuing out commands to dogs. Click training has fostered many successfully trained dogs.
Dog training involves the issuance of commands to a dog in a particular context. Dog training entails the familiarization of both dog and owner to each other. Basically, dogs are creatures of habit and can easily pick up what you teach them.
Training your dog makes it fit perfectly as a member of the family. A well mannered dog can be the source of joy to the owner and a source of envy to the owner of a misbehaving dog. With a trained dog, you will definitely be happier.
Dogs that cock their leg and pee or poop in other peoples houses (like my house a few months ago...Oscar) Dogs that pull their owners, straining as if they're pulling a carriage. Dogs who chew clothes and shoes, bark and go mad for no reason. Dogs that jump up at you or even worse at other people, or worse again at kids - Or the nightmare, dogs that bite you, other dogs, or worst other people...and that can get a death sentence for the dog.
Just about every dog owner truly wants to train their dog well. But a nearly equal number will underestimate the time, skill and elbow grease it takes to do it as it needs to be done - Especially if they are a new dog owner and have bought a high energy breed when they should have gone for a lower energy submissive type. The result is often a common catalogue of errors that can be, with more or less effort, headed off before they begin.
Lets get one thing carved in stone right away - Dogs are not hairy fluffy kids. We can wish it were so but it's not and never will be! Though the typical adult dog has a mental age of a human 2-3 year old, there are more differences than similarities so this is not a good fact to use in relation to your relationship with your dog. Dogs can be astounding at understanding verbal communication. But they don't reason out or get context the way humans do. They don't associate cause and effect in the same way.
As a result, it can be frustrating to repeat the same command over and over, only to have the dog apparently ignore you. Most times, they are not ignoring the command as much as failing to understand it. It seems it should be obvious - they've done the action with success many times before - but today they are just 'being obstinate'.
Some dogs likely are what would, in humans, be called obstinate. But they can be easily distracted, or fail to associate today's case of 'come' with yesterday's action and subsequent reward. There are alternate explanations for their behavior.
Patience is the number one required quality, therefore. You have to be geared up to repeat the same order, day in and day out, and occasionally not get the same outcome. Many dogs take two years to learn anything beyond the easiest basics to the point that it consistently sticks.
Part of that patience means you have to hold your temper in check when you'd like to hit out verbally or physically. It's easy to use physical punishment as the first route of correcting a dog's behavior. But that's reserved in the wild for only the most severe circumstances. So, the dog hasn't evolved to understand why you're getting at them. It instills fear, not trust. Just don't EVER do it. It's totally counter-productive and won't help anyway.
Dogs, like humans, much more readily follow those they trust than those they fear. The latter they do only when they have no choice. But dogs make choices very differently from people. They will usually just endure the punishment without learning anything. Physical punishment IS NOT an effective training method.
So, here's how NOT to train your dog:
- Forget that your dog has a nature unlike yours. Talk to them like they were a human child. Call them and act to them like "my baby" ahh my little soldier etc. Would mummys little man like a sweetie? STOP - It's a dog - Do wild dogs treat each other like that? No they don't. So stop fighting the natural order and start to treat your dog like an alpha dog or bitch pack leader treats his or her pack.
- Believe that the dog can associate consequences across time and conditions, then draw the same conclusion you would. Except that is - ironically - bad lessons. Dogs learn to associate bad things very well which is a fast route to creating a fearful and dangerous dog.
- Get impatient and frustrated when they don't behave as you want them to. Punish them for not behaving the way you want. As with above, impatience and punishment create fear . Fear can create neurotic as well as aggressive behavior.
Follow those futile techniques and you'll harvest the pay back of a neurotic dog and you will be an unhappy owner. But if these are not the results you desire, be prepared to change YOUR behavior, before you try to alter the dog's.
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