Understanding Your Dog; a Guide Every Pet Owner Should Read

 

Problems between dogs and their care givers arise from a multitude of reasons, most of which could be easily avoided. Inconsistent training, expecting too much too early, harsh or inexperienced handling, and carelessness are responsible for the majority of ongoing canine behavior problems. Understanding your dog will help.

Pet owners who take the time to become knowledgeable about their pet’s needs, and who build a solid foundation of love and trust with their pet, rarely experience serious behavior problems once training is complete.

Pet owners who fail in these areas, however, are likely to transfuse fear, confusion, lack of confidence, and even depression in their pet. Scanning this Savvy Dog Lover article should go a long way in assisting persons to understand the unique needs of their canine companions.

A Dog’s Unique Personality

Dogs are as being similar to most people. They may blunder here and there, but they invariably try and do their full capacity. They truly want to please their care givers. A sensitive dog owner will realize this.

Sensitive dog owners will also realize that, like people, some dogs catch on more quickly than others; others are slower to learn. Some dogs are also quicker distracted. Some are naturally more aggressive, others more shy – requiring extra patience and confidence during training.

Understanding your dog is critical itsaboutdog, for both you and your dog. This runs specifically true when it comes to training.

Guidelines for Successful Training

There are ten critical indicators to remember if you desire training success:

1. ) Patience is very important. Making a puppy or young dog to do more than he is capable of doing, losing control and screaming or striking out at the dog, or ending a training session on a sour note all sabotage training success and build confusion and hunch in the dog.

2. ) Keep training main stream and fun for your dog. Sessions gets started and end with success. Start the session out by “reviewing” a task or accomplishment your dog already does well. End the session just as, with plenty of praise.

3. ) Structure is important, so be consistent. Services should be performed regularly. Sessions should be timed to end while your dog is still enthusiastic and attentive. They should last about quarter-hour for puppies, 30 – 40 minutes for adult dogs. Sessions should also be conducted in as distraction-free a spot as possible. That means no audience of onlookers for the health of showing off your “skills” as a trainer.

4. ) Be lavish with praise. Reward each success with plenty of spoken and physical praise. Not only will this build confidence in your dog, and create a stronger bond between the both of you, but it will make him even more anxious to please you when learning other new feats.

5. ) Never call your dog to you for disciplinary purposes. This will only make your dog worried and reluctant to approach next time you call. Instead, order him to “sit, ” and “stay, ” then approach him.

6. ) Never over-discipline. Once 14 understands a command but will not obey, reasonable physical discipline may be appropriate. Discipline should never be chaotic or executed in frustration; it should always be imparted in a calm, controlled manner.

7. ) Don’t lock your dog into shame series. When a dog will not abide by, spoken and physical discipline should be controlled, and reasonable. Ongoing spoken reprisals and scolding when a dog bungles an task is ineffective and will only serve to deprive confidence. It will discourage your dog and make him dislike services altogether.

8. ) Understand that learned behavior takes time. Wish dog finds the “sit” command on Mon when it’s in their own backyard, it does not mean he will be able to carry the lesson over to Friday’s day at the beach. Dogs do not naturally apply knowledge learned in one setting to another quite different setting. He must be taught how to do this; it takes duplication over a period of time, and patience.

9. ) Teach requires in steps. For instance, before 14 can effectively learn the “lay down, ” command – which is, literally, a three-step command – he must first learn the requires “sit” and “down” (or lay down). Break multi-tasked requires into points.

10. ) Factor #1 bears repeating. Patience is very important!

By working with your dog following these guidelines you will soon discover the substance of each. Patience combined with consistency, love, and praise for triumphs congratulations are the most important factors of all when it comes to building trust in your dog, and showing training success.

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