What You Learn At A Dog Training Course
There are two very important things that have to be remembered when you own a dog. The first is that you must prevent it from harming others. The other is to prevent the dog from being harmed. Dog training, when done correctly, accomplishes both of these things. Dogs are pack animals and just like their cousins, the wolf, there need a hierarchy of power within the household. The dog owner has to show that they are the Alpha and be in control.
You have to start training your dog while it is still a puppy and keep up with the training for the rest of their life. It has to understand the boundaries, and it also has to depend on the owner to point them out. If the animal is not used to being with strangers, it could not only be a danger to the stranger, but also a danger to itself. The animal welfare organization see dogs everyday that have attacked strangers for the simple reason that they have not been properly trained.
If you cannot be bothered to train your dog or get it trained professionally it is probably better that you do not get one at all. An untrained dog is a danger to everybody it meets, even the local children are at risk. If you realize that you cannot train it yourself you must find a training center that can do it for you. By continuing to own one that is untrained and liable to bite people, there is a good chance that you will be fined, and in the worst cases that the animal will be put down.
Another element of obedience lessons that is not completely obvious is that the dog will learn to only eat food that has been given to them by their owner. The reason for this is that thousands of dogs suffer from poisoning every year. Maybe this is not intentional, but some people do not understand what things are actually dangerous for dogs to eat. Two things that dogs should never be fed are chocolate and chicken bones.
The smallest piece of chocolate can start a terrible sequence of events that end in poisoning due to theobromine. Chicken bones will splinter when bitten and may become lodged in the mouth or windpipe and result in choking. So in reality, there are lessons in animal safety to be understood by both the human and the dog on these courses.
At the end of the course you will find that the little puppy you started off with has become a dog that you can be very proud of. You do not have to fear that it will let you down in public, or that it will accept food that could harm it. You will have a new friend that you love to spend time with and will give you unconditional love back.
When you start training your dog you must remember that it will take a lot of patience on your part. You have got to remember that if you are housebreaking a puppy it will take a while before they understands what they are doing wrong. There will be quite a few accidents, and as a loving, caring owner you will have to be able to tell the difference between being authoritative, and being abusive. The time to discipline the dog for the mistake is at the time of the accident, punishing it later is totally pointless as the dog will have long forgotten what it did and it will not understand.
Throughout the duration of the training you are bound to get frustrated and anxious and feel that you are failing, but never let your dog sense that there is a problem. What you must do at this point is to seek some professional advice. You will be able to find a lot of hints and tips to help you get over your problems on some of the many forums to be found on the Internet. You will always find somebody who has been in your position before.
You have to start training your dog while it is still a puppy and keep up with the training for the rest of their life. It has to understand the boundaries, and it also has to depend on the owner to point them out. If the animal is not used to being with strangers, it could not only be a danger to the stranger, but also a danger to itself. The animal welfare organization see dogs everyday that have attacked strangers for the simple reason that they have not been properly trained.
If you cannot be bothered to train your dog or get it trained professionally it is probably better that you do not get one at all. An untrained dog is a danger to everybody it meets, even the local children are at risk. If you realize that you cannot train it yourself you must find a training center that can do it for you. By continuing to own one that is untrained and liable to bite people, there is a good chance that you will be fined, and in the worst cases that the animal will be put down.
Another element of obedience lessons that is not completely obvious is that the dog will learn to only eat food that has been given to them by their owner. The reason for this is that thousands of dogs suffer from poisoning every year. Maybe this is not intentional, but some people do not understand what things are actually dangerous for dogs to eat. Two things that dogs should never be fed are chocolate and chicken bones.
The smallest piece of chocolate can start a terrible sequence of events that end in poisoning due to theobromine. Chicken bones will splinter when bitten and may become lodged in the mouth or windpipe and result in choking. So in reality, there are lessons in animal safety to be understood by both the human and the dog on these courses.
At the end of the course you will find that the little puppy you started off with has become a dog that you can be very proud of. You do not have to fear that it will let you down in public, or that it will accept food that could harm it. You will have a new friend that you love to spend time with and will give you unconditional love back.
When you start training your dog you must remember that it will take a lot of patience on your part. You have got to remember that if you are housebreaking a puppy it will take a while before they understands what they are doing wrong. There will be quite a few accidents, and as a loving, caring owner you will have to be able to tell the difference between being authoritative, and being abusive. The time to discipline the dog for the mistake is at the time of the accident, punishing it later is totally pointless as the dog will have long forgotten what it did and it will not understand.
Throughout the duration of the training you are bound to get frustrated and anxious and feel that you are failing, but never let your dog sense that there is a problem. What you must do at this point is to seek some professional advice. You will be able to find a lot of hints and tips to help you get over your problems on some of the many forums to be found on the Internet. You will always find somebody who has been in your position before.
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