Is your dog’s bad behavior causing you stress? Don’t procrastinate. It’s time to begin some consistent obedience training for your dog. This means you need to be persistent and consistent with your training. However, training should always be fun for your dog or it will quickly get bored!
What Are Your Dog’s Basic Need?
Your dog has to rely on you to provide for him. If you don’t fulfill your dog’s basic needs, don’t be surprised if you have a badly behaved or neurotic dog. What are the basic needs? Here are the main ones:
- food and water
- regular daily exercise
- social interaction with dogs and people
- an environment which stimulates him.
The main principle in dog training is to adopt positive and negative reinforcement. When your dog does a behavior that you want to encourage, you should reward him with a treat or affection. It’s vital that the reward comes immediately after the action or the two things will not be connected by the dog.
It’s best to focus on positive reinforcement for desired behaviors rather than negative reinforcement for undesired behaviors. This has been found to be a more effective way of training.
Physical punishment is not an effective or humane way to train dogs and will only lead to your dog being neurotic and fearful. That’s not going to be a good relationship between man and dog. You can say a firm “No” in a growling tone of voice to stop him engaging in an unwanted behavior. Ignoring your dog and turning away from him is the most productive thing for you to do when he behaves badly. Dogs love attention and being ignored is negative reinforcement enough.
At all costs you should avoid humanizing your dog. Dogs have their own way of communicating which you will not understand unless you study it. You should study what their body language means. They have various ways of communicating: with their tail, head position, ear position, mouth and teeth and vocally with various kinds of barks, growls and whines.
Being pack leader or alpha dog is vital if you want your dog to behave well. If your dog is pack leader, he is never going to be well-behaved for you because he thinks you are one of his pack. Some pointers to set yourself up as alpha dog:
-eat a biscuit or two in front of your dog as he waits for his food. The pack leader always eats first.
-don’t allow him to get on the sofa or bed. The pack leader sleeps on higher ground.
-don’t allow him to go through the door before you.
This is an introduction to some important points in dog obedience training. I recommend you look into the most systematic of training methods: clicker training.
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