Mad Dog Gear

The dogs that cock their legs and pee or poop in the homes of other people (like my house a few months ago ... Oscar) dogs pulling their owners, the effort, as if they are pulling a cart. Dogs that chew the clothes and shoes, bark and mad for no reason. The dogs jump on you or worse to others, or worse for children - or nightmare, dogs that bite you, other dogs, or worse other people ... and who can get a death sentence for the dog.

Almost every dog owner truly wants to train their dog well. But a number roughly equal to underestimate the time, expertise and elbow grease it takes to do the right thing to do - especially if they own a new dog and bought a high-energy breed when they should have opted for a lower energy type of submission. The result is often a catalog of common errors that can be, with an effort more or less, head off before you start.

Lets do something carved in stone right now - Dogs are not hairy fluffy kids. We may wish it so, but it is not and never will! Although the typical adult dog has a mental age of a man aged 2-3 years, there are more differences than similarities so it's not a good fact to use as part of your relationship with your dog. Dogs can be amazing to understand verbal communication. But they do not reason out or how the human context. They do not cause and effect association in the same way.

Consequently, it can be frustrating to repeat the same command several times, only to have the dog seems to ignore you. Most of the time, they are not ignoring the command as far as not understanding. It seems that this should be obvious - that they have successfully done many times before action - but now they are simply "being stubborn".

Some dogs are likely which, in humans, be called obstinate. But they can be easily distracted, or fail to associate today if "coming" to the action of yesterday and reward the following. There are other explanations for their behavior.

Patience is the number one need for quality, therefore. You must be prepared to repeat the same order, day after day, and sometimes not get the same result. Many dogs take two years to learn something beyond the mere basic point that still sticks.

Part of that patience means that you must keep your temper in check when you want to hit verbally or physically. It is easy to use corporal punishment as the primary way of correcting the behavior of a dog. But that is reserved in the wild for the most serious circumstances. Thus, the dog has not evolved to understand why you're getting them. It instills fear, not confidence. Just do not do it. This is totally against-productive and will not help anyway.

Dogs, like humans, much easier to follow those they trust those they fear. This they do when they have no choice. But the dogs to make choices very different people. They will usually just stand the pain without learning anything. Physical punishment is not an effective training method.

So here's how not to train your dog:

- Forget what your dog has a nature unlike yours. Talk to them as they have a human child. Call them and act for them as "my baby" ahh my little soldier etc. Would Mummy's little man like a candy? STOP - This is a dog - Wild dogs treat each other like that? The answer is no. So stop fighting against the natural order and begin to treat your dog like a dog alpha dog or pack leader treats his pack.

- Believing that the dog may associate consequences across time and conditions, then draw the same conclusion as you. Except that is - ironically - bad lessons. Dogs learn to associate bad things very well which is a quick way to create a fearful and dangerous dog.

- IM you.