How To Improve Your Dog’s Behaviour
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012While obedience training goes a good distance to giving you a well behaved dog, it doesn't always solve or prevent all behaviour issues. By working on your dog’s behavior you can tweak your pup’s naughty behavior habits.
Let me tell you what falls into the dog behaviour class. I have covered a few of these behavior issues already, and others I will be getting to soon.
Excessive barking
Chewing on non-dog items
Eating Poop (Coprophagia)
Digging
Hyper
Biting
Separation anxiety
Jumping on people
Issues with eating
Mean to other dogs
Peeing places they're not allowed to
Hopping over your yard fence
Running away from home
Nicking off of counters
I would like to address each of these individually, so I will not go into them now, but I want to lay out 1 or 2 thoughts to remember about your dogs behavior. Firstly, is the seriousness of consistency. You can resolve many of these Problems by employing the command words that your dog learns through repitition.
For instance, to keep your dog from eating dog poop, use the command “Leave It.”
To stop your dog from jumping on people, use “Sit” or “Down”
To calm your dog from being hyper, you can use “Heel”
As you can see, dog obedience is a main part to keeping your dog’s behavior under control. If they've been trying their obedience training, and are still having behaviour Problems, then the obedience training may be employed as a building block or stepping stone.
Many dogs behavior issues come from separation anxiety. If you remember when I discussed separation anxiousness, dogs occasionally act out because of fear or insecurity of being left alone.
Here's a reminder for you on how to help with your dog’s anxiousness if you feel that their behaviour issues are coming from this separation stress.
Start leaving your dog alone for short bursts throughout the day. This lets your dog know that you will not always be there, but you'll always come back.
Ensure that your dog has everything they require while you are way,eg water, food, and toys.
Make certain to walk your dog or let them run around for some time before you leave for an extended time period.
If your dog is housetrained already and they have got a way to eliminate while you are gone, try leaving them their big meal to eat before going. This will help waste some time for them.
Consider adding another pet to your family. Many animals need a companion home with them.
Leave your pup in their crate or another secure area.
Ensure that your dog has had obedience training. This helps them learn the way to control their emotions.
Pay a neighbour or a chum to stop by and let your pup out and play with them in the middle of the day.
Leave the TV or radio on so there's noise in the house.
Leave your puppy with a rare treat that they love and only get when you are leaving. Shortly they may want to push you out that door to get something tasty for their belly!
If your dog is having behavior issues while you are around, and you suspect that separation tension isn’t the guilty party here, then there could be an absence of understanding who is precisely the master in the house; you or your dog.
You need to start making an attempt to clearly outline your role as a leader and your dog’s role as a proponent. Make sure that they know what is expected of them, and reward their good behavior.
When they misbehave, correct their bad behavior immediately and don't let them get away with it. Your puppy will shortly learn that what they are doing is not okay with you.
Another useful tool is identifying what is causing your dog to behave badly. If they're barking at the doorbell, you may need to actually ring the doorbell more often to have them get use to it.
Neither you or the people around you want to have a naughty dog. Beginning early with behaviour modification will not just help your dog, and your family, but also the other people in your lives.
Tess Maguire is a pro dog tutor who is dedicated to helping dog owners enjoy the relationship that may really boost and bless their lives.
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