Dog Ownership 101 - May/June 2016

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7 COMMON MISTAKES WHEN STARTING PUPPY TRAINING by Kelly V. Livingston Follow Us: Puppy training is important, but it is not always easy for dogs or their owners. That is why it is important to learn how to train your puppy properly before you begin. After you have brought your new puppy into your home, it will not be long before you see that training will be necessary. Training can help your puppy to learn how to be part of your family and what behavior you consider acceptable. However, training a puppy will not be done overnight and can take a great deal of time. The following suggestions will help you to begin training your puppy starting today. EXPECTING TRAINING TO BE 1 IMMEDIATE Don’t get too worried if the training doesn’t seem to be working right away. It takes years to get enough of an education to teach school children. However, teaching a puppy only requires that you learn a few basic exercises to start. The biggest challenges of training a dog properly are mental ones. Like human beings, dogs have their own unique personalities and spirits and you can use those unique traits to understand and train your dog. Remember that your dog loves you and will follow your lead better than any human being ever would. Teach your dog how you want her to act by example. You need to take a good, long and hard look at yourself and decide what your personality characteristics are. NOT WORKING WITH YOUR DOG 2 EFFECTIVELY Do you share any of the characteristics with the puppy? If you find yourself to be demanding, learn how to relax a little. Scaring 70 DOG ownership 101 | MAY / JUNE 2016
the puppy is not only going to have negative effects on the training. A puppy will be far more involved in the learning process if they don’t feel intimidated. You need to be taken seriously by your dog if you want it be trained well. If the dog is relaxed and you are obsessive, the dog will think you’re crazy. If your dog is acting up, you need to ask yourself what you may be doing to cause that kind of reaction from the dog. Are you portraying good or bad behavior towards them? Remember that it’s probably your fault, so take the steps necessary to correct both your and the dog’s behavior. SCARING OR INTIMIDATING 3 YOUR PUPPY Try to imagine someone four times your size hovering over you. Overwhelming right? Your puppy may be fearful of you or run, unable to gain anything useful from this situation. Think about what options you have available, including treats in order to encourage good behavior. Puppies, like children have personalities too. If you’ve owned more than one pup in your life, you know what this truly means. Every dog is different. You need to train him, but in order to do that you need to understand how their brain works. No matter their personality, you need to have positive interaction with your puppy and also understand them. Dogs love to be included in whatever you are doing and share their lives and secret language, as long as you stop to listen and watch. FORGETTING THAT YOUR DOG IS 4 A DOG Just remember that a dog is a dog and will act as dogs do, regardless of size or breed. So, dogs shouldn’t be treated as if they are children or different types of pets. A dog has a predictable, yet unique, behavior all his own. He will sleep at night, walk on four legs and look for affection wherever he can find it. If you can recognize those behaviors in him, you can use them as training tools. Your dog has the need to belong to your family, just like he would want to belong to a pack of dogs. So do try to understand the situation from the dog’s viewpoint and try talking to him in ‘dog language’. These will help you be on top of any day-to-day needs like teaching him manners, as well as the slowing down of bad habits. Are you looking for the dog breed that will fit best into your family? If so, you need our introduction to 14 highly respected breeds of dogs on page 61. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE. NOT BEING EMPATHETIC AND 5 COMPASSIONATE You can also make him come out of assertiveness, hyperactivity, fear or impulsiveness by being empathetic. Do try and understand your pet’s style of communication, pattern of behavior, etc. and change your training methods to suit these factors. These can make him feel at home with your family. Dogs are really superior to other species since they are loyal team players and define their life in terms of the group activity going on. She feels like part of the family, but that doesn’t mean it’s a democracy. Rather, it’s a hierarchy and if you don’t act like the leader and train her, she will take over that role and train you. DOG ownership 101 | MAY / JUNE 2016 71
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