It is the ambition of every dog owner to have a well-trained dog. However, many dog owners do not take into account the amount of effort and time which is needed to train a dog properly. That is the reason why a number of mistakes are made which could be easily avoided with a little bit of common sense and effort.
Dogs are definitely not furry children as some owners consider them to be. An average dog is going to have the mental capacity of a human 2-year-old, but there are not as many similarities as differences between a human and the dog. Dogs cannot follow language processing or reasoning like human beings. In the same manner, they do not understand cause and effect.
That is why plenty of new dog trainers are extremely frustrated when they suppose the dog is ignoring their command, which is being repeated again and again. Many owners consider a dog to be stubborn on one day when he obeyed his master’s commands the previous day. But the owners do not take into consideration that the dog does not understand the command so he does not know how to respond.
That is the reason why owners dub a dog stubborn or disobedient as if it was human. A dog might get distracted while training or not relate the “come” command with the behavior of the previous training session and its resulting reward. There are reasons for this particular behavior.
A dog trainer is going to need a lot of patience. You will need to repeat those commands continuously and again and again. Be ready not to get 100% results every time. Many dogs need more than 2 years of training to get past the simple basic and easy to understand commands.
Remember that patience means that you hold your temper when what you really want is to lash out physically. It’s natural to think about taking the easy route of corporal punishment as the first option for improving the dog’s behavior. However, this should be reserved for only the most severe situations. The dog doesn’t really grasp why they’re being smacked. This will not instill trust, but to the contrary fear.
In addition, dogs are like humans because they too will more readily listen to those that are trusted than those that are feared. They only follow those that they fear when they have no other choice. But dogs make choices decidedly different than people do. They usually tolerate any punishment they receive without actually learning from it. Physical punishment is not a practical way of training.
Here’s how NOT to Train your dog: – Ignore the fact that your dog processes information differently than humans and speak to them like they were human. – Hold to the idea that a dog can connect events across time and situations and draw the same conclusion as you. – Get angry and irritable when they don’t behave as you want them to. Smack them for not behaving the way you want.
These methods are completely useless and are going to result in a frustrated dog owner and an unstable and fearful pet. So, to make sure that you do not get these results, change YOUR behavior before you try changing your dog’s behavior.
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