Fear can set in leading to an instinctual fight or flight response from your dog. However, that direct eye contact is seen by your dog as a threatening gesture which can make your dog question your intentions. When making your point to the teenager that this must never, ever, happen again, and explaining the consequences of his misbehavior, the natural tendency would be for you to be making full-on eye contact just to emphasize how deadly serious you were about the whole episode. Just imagine your 14-year old son "borrowed" your car one day. Again, the rule here is the antithesis of human behavior. The final technique governs the use of direct eye contact, and if you study groups of dogs, you will see repeated instances of when eye contact is either withdrawn or avoided. If they do a good thing (like sitting on command) and you immediately praise them, they will associate the sitting with the positive kudos and are more inclined to do it the next time around.Īvoid direct eye contact/ stare. Refocusing your dog must be immediate, when your dog is thinking about making a mistake, or when he is in the act of unwanted behavior. If you correct them after the fact, they will not associate your correction with the bad act. Their behavior is all about cause and effect. Remember that dogs don't necessarily have long term memories. Your first thought is to yell and correct the "bad dog". Many of us have walked into our home only to find that the dog has torn apart your sofa cushions or had a toileting 'accident'. Never correct them after a bad incident has happened. Only use your dog's name for positive situations. Ironically, he is doing so in a misguided effort to try and please you! And, you don't want your dog's name to carry a negative association, so that he won't avoid responding when he hears it. So when Rover's owner yells, "Rover, be quiet!" - guess what? Rover keeps on barking. If you have children, you are probably used to yelling at them - "Jimmy, stop that right now!" In the case of a child, Jimmy knows you are angry with him, as he has been identified by his name however, with a dog, using his name has the opposite effect, as it actually adrenalizes the dog.
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Instead, your Bark Busters dog trainer can teach you how to use a calm yet firm voice to refocus your dog and to teach the desired behavior.
Yelling at your dog does not work because it will just get him more stressed or it will only increase his energy level and how excited he is about the situation.
Do not scream at your dog as this flies in the face of what you feel like doing. This is communication using body language and tone to teach your dog new behaviors. The Bark Busters training method succeeds in part due to 'speaking dog'. Never Yell Or Use Your Dog's Name as Punishment. Remember that dogs are not born aggressive- it is a learned behavior that can result from improper socialization, poor training methods, history and more.'Scruffing', holding your dog's mouth closed, pushing and even collar grabs, while not malicious, can also cause problems. Using a physical means to control/correct your dog may cause them to loose trust in hands and therefore become defensive. teaches your dog bad habits which they may try to replicate with other dogs and/or even children. In regards to physical corrections, even if you don't actually hit your dog, techniques like 'alpha rolling', or pin downs, etc. Your Bark Busters trainer will never recommend for you to use shock collars, prong collars, or any other device that would cause your dog pain or discomfort.
So let's look at some of the things you should avoid when addressing your dog's unwanted behavior.ĭogs, like humans, will make mistakes, and don't deserve to suffer pain or experience physical corrections as a consequence. Many of these methods can do more harm to your dog in the long term than good. As Bark Busters dog trainers, we have heard about virtually every type of dog training method out there.
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