Wednesday, July 29, 2009

An Owner's Liability For Having A Subservient Dog

By Danny F Ford

There really is no explanation for a poorly behaved dog. Most dogs are relatively straightforward to instruct when you make a commitment to it. A dog's behavior is the duty of the owner.

The very most important thing that you must do as a dog owner is to establish the pecking order. As the owner you must be the alpha dog. Dogs are in nature pack animals and they respond to pack order. Every human member of the family must be positioned over the dog in the pack order. When a human being family member speaks the dog needs to conform.

Reverse to what many dog lovers may consider, dogs do not have human characteristics. They cannot deduce and they do not understand particulars in communication. You are doing your dog a act of kindness when you persist that he comply with your orders. Your dog will feel affection for and respect you if he knows you are the alpha dog.

In order for your dog to be secure and your family to be happy, you have to to be able to restrain your dog. When you command, "stop" he needs to stop. When you say, "Sit", he needs to sit. In brief, when you are the alpha dog of the pack, he needs to act in response to you and when you ascertain yourself as the leader he will all the time act in response to you.

There are a couple of things that you need to take into account when you think about training your dog. First of all, dogs will act in response better to positive reinforcement than to disapproving reinforcement. You can always get better consequences with praise and treats than you can with anger or yelling.

Your best outcomes will come when you pay no heed to negative behavior and reward good behavior. When you give awareness to your dog for bad conduct, you can end up creating fear instead of submission and obedience. Again, dogs cannot think logically, they don't know why you are furious with them and it just creates anxiety.

In order to boost actions you must take action to your dog instantaneously, otherwise he will not correlate the sought actions with the reward and you will be spinning your wheels. As soon as he exhibits the desired actions you must reward him. You can reward your dog with treats, admiration, toys or even just a pat on the head. He will react to loving and encouraging rewards no matter what form they take.

After your dog understands what you are wanting and he is without fail doing what you ask, then you need to only reward him from time to time. Intermittent reinforcement is actually more successful for cementing in the behavior than giving him a reward every time.

Your dog can become well trained quite swiftly if you are steady in your training efforts. Just make sure that you are the leader of the pack and that you follow through with all of your efforts.

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