How To Teach Your Dog – NOT!
Every dog owner out there wants a dog, which is well-trained. But many dog owners have underestimated the amount of effort as well as the time which goes with training a dog properly. That is the reason why a number of totally avoidable mistakes occur which could have been done away with in the 1st place.
Dogs are definitely not furry children as some owners consider them to be. An average dog is going to have the mental capacity of a human 2-year-old, but there are not as many similarities as differences between a human and the dog. Dogs cannot follow language processing or reasoning like human beings. In the same manner, they do not understand cause and effect.
This can wind up being highly frustrating as the same command is repeated over and over, and the dog seems to reject the commands. ususally it is not brushing off the command; it is likely that they don't understand it. It seems it should be clear because they've displayed the right behavior many times in the past, but today they are being headstrong.
Many times, humans are surprised at dogs acting stubbornly. But their pet may have failed to associate yesterday's rewards for obeying the call, "come" with today's "come" because he did not connect the two in his mind. Some possible reasons and explanations based on how dogs learn have been suggested.
A dog trainer is going to need a lot of patience. You will need to repeat those commands continuously and again and again. Be ready not to get 100% results every time. Many dogs need more than 2 years of training to get past the simple basic and easy to understand commands.
Always remember that patience means that you restrain your temper when what you actually want is to smack or yell at your dog. It's normal to think about taking the easy route of physical punishment as the first reaction for correcting the dog's behavior. However, this should be reserved for only the most severe circumstances. The dog doesn't really grasp why they're being smacked. This will not create trust and confidence, but instead fear.
Dogs are just like human beings in the way that they follow people they trust instead of the people they fear. Following a person they fear is a last resort option for dogs. Dogs also have different reasoning abilities than humans. They are not going to learn from physical punishment, because they do not understand the reason behind it. That is why physical punishment is not an effective training option.
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.
Follow these absolutely useless methods and you'll end up with a maladjusted dog and you will be an unhappy owner. But if these aren't the results you are looking for, be prepared to change YOUR behavior, before you try to change the behavior of the dog.
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