A Simple Guide To How Dog Behavior Training Works
Dog behavior training is really simple once you know how to do it. Also once you know the mechanics behind why all professionally trained dog trainers do what they do you’ll start to see how easy sorting out all your bad dog behavior issues won’t take too long.
Dog behavior training invloves conditioning your dog to obey your commands, let me explain this concept a little further. To control your dogs behavior you need to teach them by association. You associate good things with your dog when they are good and you don’t acknowledge or give them any attention whatsoever when they are bad. You don’t punish them either when they are bad, which is how we as humans are used to been treated.
To successfully use dog behavior training appropriately you must give him lots of positive praise and reward so that they associate receiving this positive reinforcement with how they should conduct themselves. If their bad dog behavior comes to light again you must immediately switch back to ignoring your dog. Over time you will see the results I’ve mentioned here.
So for example with aggressive dog behavior training I would recommend that you are very short and sharp with your dog. Here’s an example to give you a general idea; if you dog barks excessively when they see another dog on your TV don’t try to compete with them by shouting at your dog to ‘Stop’, ‘Leave It’ or even ‘No’. This won’t work because your dog will think you’re joining in with them to warn off the other dog. What I would recommend you do is just get up grab your dog by its collar and without saying anything to them remove them from the room and shut the door behind them. Don’t drag your dog or grab them harshly as you may hurt them.
What you’re doing here with this dog behavior training technique is saying to the dog ‘If you’re going to be like that you’re not staying in this room with me.’ Leave your dog outside of the room with the door closed for roughly a minute per year of age (so if your dog is 5 I’d leave them outside of the room for 5 minutes). This may not work straight away but keep at it and your dog will soon get the message and will start by calming down or showing less aggressive dog behavior which will eventually lead to no barking at all.
Ask any dog behavior training professional and they will tell you exactly this; Praise and reward good behavior and ignore the bad. When your dogs behavior is aggressive it’s difficult to just ignore so you give them the minimum attention possible and remove them from the situation which is causing their bad behavior.
You’ll find that dog behavior training has been covered in a lot of different books, some people have different methods than others however their concepts are pretty much the same. The best dog training books are the ones which teach you to train your dog by using positive reinforcement training. These books can be found anywhere these days however you’ll probably find most are available online. One of the best dog training book resources is Amazon.
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