Dog Training 101:How To NOT Instruct Your Dog or Puppy
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How to Instruct and Train Your Dog or Puppy
Nearly every dog owner wants to train their dog properly.
However, nearly an equal number seriously misjudge the amount of time and effort it takes to train a dog. This results in a familiar set of misjudgments that are often made that could, with more or less effort, be totally avoided.
Dogs should not be thought of as furry children. Even though the typical dog has the intellectual development of a two year old child, there are more contrasts than similarities. While dogs are incredible at processing language, they are unable to reason as people do. They can’t put together cause and effect the way people do.
For instance , when you instruct your dog to “go lie down” you may want him to head to his sofa dog bed or kennel . At the outset , if you don’t help him to make the connection between the command and his dog bedding by bodily taking him there as you are expressing the command, you are setting him up for frustration .
This can start being exceedingly frustrating as the same command is repeated over and over, and the dog appears to brush off the commands. Most of the time it is not brushing off the command; it is likely that they don’t understand it. It seems it should be straightforward because they’ve exhibited the right behavior many times in the past, but today they are being headstrong.
Some dogs probably would be called headstrong if they were human. However, they can be thrown off easily or be unable to put together the command of “sit” today with yesterday’s behavior and subsequent reward. There are some likely explanations for this behavior.
Patience is the one character trait that dog owners must have. You must be able to repeat those same commands over and over again, knowing that there are times when you won’t get the conclusions you await and want. There are many dogs that will take two years to learn commands past the most basic to the degree that it really becomes second nature.
Keep in mind that patience means that you keep your temper when what you really want is to smack or yell at your dog. It’s common to think about taking the easy route of physical punishment as the first reaction for altering the dog’s behavior. On the other hand, this should be reserved for only the most severe situations. The dog doesn’t really grasp why they’re being swatted. This will not instill trust and confidence, but instead fear.
However, dogs are like people because they too will more readily follow those that are trusted than those that are feared. They only follow those that they fear when they have no other alternative. But dogs make decisions in a different manner than people do. They usually endure any punishment they receive without actually learning from it. Physical punishment is not an effective training technique.
Here’s how NOT to Instruct or Train your dog:
- Forget that your dog processes information differently than humans and speak to them like they were people.
- Continue to think that a dog can connect events across time and circumstances draw the same conclusion as you.
- Get angry and irritable when they don’t respond as you expect them to. Smack them for not behaving the way you want.
Follow these utterly ineffective methods and you’ll end up with a maladjusted dog and you will be an unhappy owner. But if this isn’t the outcome you are looking for, be prepared to change YOUR behavior, before you try to change and train your puppy.
Here is a simple video on how to train your puppy.
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