Written by Martine Lavallée BAA, TSA Having the perfect dog who knows how to react to any situation and who obeys each of our orders is a utopia. But to ensure that he is well well-educated in society is the least of things or even an obligation as a dog owner. Indeed, being able to recognize the dog’s body language to guide our dog and prevent an inappropriate reaction from it, is necessary. However, it represents a daily work especially in our companion first years of life. In addition, it can be an investment both in terms of time and financial level.
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To succeed, here are five tips that can optimize your education sessions to better understand your dog and develop an excellent relationship with him.
1. Respect the needs of the dog Initially, for our dog to respect us, we must respect him and to do this, it is essential to meet his needs:
When all the needs of our dog are respected, it will not be tempted to fill some of them by having behaviours that do not correspond to our expectations.
2. Use a clear drive system This immediately excludes ALL VIOLENCE! During the education sessions, we repeat many commands to our dog. But to constantly repeat words to an individual who does not understand our language without indicating to him by some sign that he has understood and understood is certain to ensure that it eventually ignores us. We must therefore absolutely reward the successes of our Fido. To do this, we use what is called a marker. The latter serves to make our animal understand that he is rewarded for the behaviour he has just produced. Markers facilitate learning by increasing the understanding link between desired behaviour and reward. The reward must be IMMEDIATE! It can be both verbal (cheerful tone of voice) and/or the clicker as well as small snacks. As for voices, intonation and exaggerated tone will be in order. Indeed, high-pitched sounds are mainly used for congratulations as well as the reminder and the call to play. While the deep voices are used especially for prohibitions and invitations to renunciation.
3. Learning in different environments We and our dog will be confronted with different environments, more or less stressful, during our lives. In order to be able to react well, both for us and our dog, it is recommended to practise in various conditions. In short, dogs have difficulty generalizing what we are teaching them and for us it is difficult to understand that our dogs do not understand our words.
4. Learn basic commands In general the basic commands of our dog are:
5. Dissuade unwanted behaviours
In conclusion In my opinion, to educate and well-educated your dog is to allow us a good integration into the society in a more global way. To succeed in the dog training of our dog, I always recommend dealing with a qualified professional who has at heart his job to help us in our approach. Thanks to a discipline and a good supervision, our dog will become attentive, fulfilled because we will share the same language and we will thus create an excellent complicity. |