Dog Training - How NOT To Train Your Dog
Most dog owners think they train their dog in a correct way. However many do not know how much effort and how many hours is needed to get the desired results. Because of this lack of knowledge people commit mistakes that could be avoided without much effort.
Dogs are not furry children. Though the average mature dog has a mental development somewhere around the level of a two year old human, there are more differences than similarities. Dogs can be amazing at processing language. But they don’t reason the way humans do. They don’t connect cause and effect in the same way we do.
It may seem that your dog at times ingores you and this can be very distressing. The truth however is that they do hear you, but just don’t understand you. At times they even have obeyed certain commands in the past, so they must know… It’s seems they are playing with you.
The fact of the matter is that most dogs are not stubborn, but just easily distracted. Or they just don’t today’s order of ‘come’ with yesterdays correct behaviour. You should bare in mind that ther are many other explanations for this change in behaviour.
Patience is king, therefore. You have to be prepared to repeat the same command, day in and day out, and sometimes not get the same result. Many dogs take two years to learn anything beyond the simplest basics to the point that it consistently sticks.
Being patient means controlling your anger and when your dog doesn’t obey you. It is easy to punish your dog as a means of correction, but I really wouldn’t recommend physical punishment for dog training. When you hit your dog you will only get a dog that fears you, not a dog that wants to please you with his behaviour. You should try to establish trust between you and your dog.
Dogs, like humans, much more readily follow those they trust than those they fear. The latter they do only when they have no choice. But dogs reason very differently from people. They will often just endure the punishment without learning anything. Physical punishment simply isn’t an effective training method.
So, I now present you with some tips on how NOT to train your dog:
- Believe that your dog is just like you and talk to him as if he were a person.
- Think that dogs are capable of relating and understanding cause and result over time.
- Get impatient and frustrated when they don’t behave as you want them to. Punish them for not behaving the way you want.
Don’t train your dog making these 3 classic mistakes or you’ll reap the reward of a maladjusted dog. Be prepared to change YOUR behavior first, before you try to change the dog behaviour.
