Having a dog as a pet is great. Dogs are great friends and companions, and when there is nobody for you, they are! However, dogs are after all dogs. We humans expect them to behave like humans, which they can’t bear in mind always; so, they make mistakes. So, you feel a need to train your dog. However, you, as humans (supposedly with more brains) should bear in mind to understand them and treat them lovingly to make them listen to you. Here are some dog training tips.
If your dog is not in a mood or isn’t comfortable to meet another animal, dog or person, you shouldn’t insist her/him to say “hello”. There is a reason behind why s/he is uncomfortable, but s/he can’t express it in words; so, you should respect it. If you force her/him to listen to you and take it as your insult if s/he doesn’t greet your guests, you would prove to be a bad dog parent.
Most dog parents know very well where their dogs are wrong. However, they forget the good points. This is downright unjust and harmful to your relation. Remember that dogs are like children. They try to understand what you want from them. If you don’t praise them when they do the right things and only punish them when they are wrong, they would be confused about what is wrong and what is right, and would start behaving abnormally in the long run. So, don’t skimp on showing your love and attention when your dog does the right thing so that s/he would know the difference between wrong and right and would end up in learning how to behave correctly.
If you are training your dog by reading some random tips and making her/him do things or eat food just because it was written in those tips that dogs love them, you are treating her/him too childishly. Every dog is different (just like every human is different) and can love something else than what you have brought for her/him. Your duty is to keep an eye on your dog’s behavior and find out her/his likings and passions and then present her/him those things or treats or let her/him do those things if they are not harmful for you, your family, your home or others.
While training your dog, let as many family members be present there as possible. Thus if you are telling her/him “off” when s/he jumps on the sofa and somebody else is saying “down”, how would the poor thing understand what s/he is expected to do. Dogs are not human language experts and don’t keep listening and learning your language while you are talking, as you believe. Understand this and avoid confusion by keeping same words for particular commands, which all family members should use.
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