Nearly every dog owner wants to instruct their dog properly. However, nearly an equal number seriously miscalculate the amount of time and toil it takes to teach a dog. This results in a regular set of misjudgments that are often made that could, with more or less effort, be wholly evaded.
Dogs are definitely not furry babies and children. Even though an average dog has an IQ of a 2-year-old human child, there are fewer similarities and more differences between dogs and humans. A dog does not understand reasoning, cause and effect, and processing language systematically.
That is why plenty of new dog trainers are extremely frustrated when they suppose the dog is ignoring their command, which is being repeated again and again. Many owners consider a dog to be stubborn on one day when he obeyed his master’s commands the previous day. But the owners do not take into consideration that the dog does not understand the command so he does not know how to respond.
That is the reason why owners dub a dog stubborn or disobedient as if it was human. A dog might get distracted while training or not relate the “come” command with the behavior of the previous training session and its resulting reward. There are reasons for this particular behavior.
Patience is the one character trait that dog owners must have. You must be ready to repeat those same commands again and again, knowing that there are times when you won’t get the conclusions you expect and are looking for. There are many dogs that may take up to two years to learn commands over and above the most simple to the degree that it really sticks.
Physical retaliation and venting your frustration upon a dog is definitely not a good response. It is going to make the dog afraid of you instead of correcting its behavior. Physical punishment should only be kept for meting out in extreme circumstances. A dog does not understand why he is being punished physically. This punishment is going to make your dog fear instead of trust you.
However, dogs are like people because they also will more readily follow those that are trusted than those that are feared. They only follow those that they fear when they have no other alternative. But dogs make choices in a different manner than humans do. They usually tolerate any punishment they bear without really learning from it. Corporal punishment is not a practical way of training.
This is how not to train your dog: -Treating and talking to your dog like it is a human, and able to reason like you. -Thinking that your dog can connect cause and effect, and events across different circumstances and time and reach the same conclusions as a human being. -Getting impatient with the dog, as well as frustrated, just because they are not behaving in the manner you want them to behave, and then punishing them for something they cannot understand.
These methods are completely useless and are going to result in a frustrated dog owner and an unstable and fearful pet. So, to make sure that you do not get these results, change YOUR behavior before you try changing your dog’s behavior.
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