How to train and DISCIPLINE a dog

Dogs are very skilled at interpreting our gestures, learning keywords and preventing our reactions, but they are usually incapable to understand our scale of values and our conduct.

BEING FAIR

Even when the explanation is perfectly evident for us, a dog is not capable to understand why it can't jump on its female master when she is wearing an elegant skirt and stockings, but it is aloud to do it when she is wearing some old pair of pants. Punishing the dogs for acting like dogs doesn't make much sense. We can avoid the inappropriate conducts by training the dogs in a concrete way, but it is not fair or logical to expect them to make distinctions between one weekday and the other or among our different ways of dressing.

The physical punishment is almost always negative. Sometimes it is necessary to physically stop a dog from doing a determined thing, but you should never use only toughness or violence. The smacks and the hits can bring bad consequences of many types: a dog with certain pretension to anxiety can associate this punishment with the person who is performing it and deny to obey his calls in the future or won't let him touch it, showing itself very fearful everything he raises his hand. dog harness training

Even worst, a nervous dog can associate in a wrong way these mistreats with the humans, dogs or any other element of its environment. This kind of associations can lead the dog to defend itself from the children, adults, unfamiliar dogs, considering that they are responsible for its pain and fear. And on the other hand, an assertive and self-confident dog can even attack when feeling psychologically threatened. Dog training collars

AVOIDING VIOLENCE

It is not strange for mistreated dogs to show themselves as aggressive, or a casualty that the violent dogs attack their masters a lot more than people they have never seen in their life; their aggressive conduct almost always comes from mistreatments performed by their masters.

Few dog owners choose to use physical punishment because they know that this will only help to make the conduct even worst. Many of them choose to teach their dogs the correct conduct as if they were little children: through verbal instructions and clearly explaining them what they have done wrong. Unfortunately, treating the dogs as children doesn't work properly either.

Dogs simply don't understand our language. Instead of that they get the idea mainly from our voice pitch. Many dogs interpret the shouting as an invitation to bark. It is also possible for some dogs to behave in an unacceptable way precisely because they want to get their masters really mad; hitting these dogs is a lot worst as a punishment than just ignoring them.

PREVENTING the Dog's BAD HABITS & Behaviors

There are many effective techniques that are not cruel at all, of interrupting undesired conducts, avoiding them or not turning them into a habit. The first one, is called "denial of retribution", consisting of making sure that the dog won't get any kind of reward through that inappropriate conduct, since any conduct that doesn't lead to a benefit ends up being finally abandoned.

Many dogs for example, greet people by jumping on them. Even when this represents a friendly gesture, there are people who dislike it. You can't extinguish this conduct by scolding the dog or greeting it in an effusive way, but ignoring it completely, turning your back to the dog, waiting for it to get back on its four paws before greeting it. When the dog greets properly, you have to congratulate it. It is necessary to be constant and not to pay attention to them until it calms down.

Another technique that is very used to eliminate undesired conducts is the aversion. It consists on interrupting the conduct through a stimulus the dog will consider unpleasant as a shot of water or a disturbing noise for example. However, this technique must be used with a lot of precaution because some dogs may associate these unpleasant stimuli with people, objects, etc. An adequate training avoids bad habits from appearing, but if they have already appeared it is almost always possible to eliminate them only with patience and counting with the help of a specialist in canine behavior. Dog Training Tips