While dogs are known as man's best friend, you, as the dog owner, are reliable for the training of your dog, if you want him to live up to that lofty moniker. When you bring that cute puppy home, he is a boisterous and loving character. What he lacks is discipline and that is where you come in. You need to fulfill your end of the bargain.
Dogs are in the main the most loveable of animals, inherently faithful, fun loving, comforting and amusing. Yet, you have got to face the fact that dogs are permanent three year olds, in terms of discipline. That's why an early program of training is important. Dogs absolutely love to please their owner. It's up to you to let your pup know what's expected of him in the behavioral category. From his point of view, he's in a continual state of having fun. He does not know good from bad behavior unless you make the distinction. One of the most everyday dog conducts you will wish to curb is the biting pup syndrome.
Puppies love chewing on everything, as any dog owner will confirm. The biting puppy may have an enjoyable session with your precious slippers, a book or a tasty bone. He should for certain be able to enjoy his bone, but you have got to provide behavioral guidance that steers him away from your slippers or your current reading material. He does not recognize there is a difference, unless you let him know. If you just let him do his thing, he will soon be an disrespectful biting puppy, with the whole world in his approved list of biting behavior. If you're an irresponsible dog owner, you have no one to blame but yourself when he graduates to biting you, your children or your next door neighbor whenever it pleases him. The biting puppy, unchecked, will become a biting dog, landing you and him in a whole lot of trouble.
Like kids, dogs need behavioral counseling. To get a biting puppy to realise their are constraints is really simple. Where do you draw the line? Biting food and bones is a good rule. Anything else is breaking any understanding you have with your dog. If you permit them to chew on a old worn out pair of carpet slippers, this is giving them a license to bite and chew a variety of household items. He can not distinguish between things that are good to bite and those that they are not.
Pups that are teething are likely to be biting puppies. However, you might think its cute with the decimation role he played the day before, but you have to put your foot down. Dogs only understand the rules if they are absolute. Correct or not is Right. The punishment must as well fit the crime. In the case of inanimate objects, a newspaper rolled up with a sharp noise report, should get your message across.
You must hold in reserve the most serious punishment for infractions which involve your puppy biting a human. No matter how fun loving, lacking in spite or whatever, a puppy must be deterred from the idea that biting a human is acceptable. Let's say your daughter decides to share some fat scraps from her dinner plate with her puppy. He is certainly eager to share in this largess, inadvertently biting her in his haste. While he means no harm, if you let this pass unpunished, you are giving him a green light for behaviour that spells trouble down the road.
In order to promptly and unequivocally nip the biting puppy behaviour in the bud, you have got to come down on him hard. A sharp smack on the nose, removal of the food and the dog version of a time out is what you need to impose. Slip his leash on and give him a taste of isolation out on the porch, along with a firm 'bad dog'. This is language and action he can understand. He will know that his behaviour resulted in a physical punishment, loss of the desired item and isolation from his family.
Using this strategy, you can quickly and easily train your biting puppy right out of his bad habit. By the time he is six months old, you will have a permanent toddler dog who knows his limitations!
Dogs are in the main the most loveable of animals, inherently faithful, fun loving, comforting and amusing. Yet, you have got to face the fact that dogs are permanent three year olds, in terms of discipline. That's why an early program of training is important. Dogs absolutely love to please their owner. It's up to you to let your pup know what's expected of him in the behavioral category. From his point of view, he's in a continual state of having fun. He does not know good from bad behavior unless you make the distinction. One of the most everyday dog conducts you will wish to curb is the biting pup syndrome.
Puppies love chewing on everything, as any dog owner will confirm. The biting puppy may have an enjoyable session with your precious slippers, a book or a tasty bone. He should for certain be able to enjoy his bone, but you have got to provide behavioral guidance that steers him away from your slippers or your current reading material. He does not recognize there is a difference, unless you let him know. If you just let him do his thing, he will soon be an disrespectful biting puppy, with the whole world in his approved list of biting behavior. If you're an irresponsible dog owner, you have no one to blame but yourself when he graduates to biting you, your children or your next door neighbor whenever it pleases him. The biting puppy, unchecked, will become a biting dog, landing you and him in a whole lot of trouble.
Like kids, dogs need behavioral counseling. To get a biting puppy to realise their are constraints is really simple. Where do you draw the line? Biting food and bones is a good rule. Anything else is breaking any understanding you have with your dog. If you permit them to chew on a old worn out pair of carpet slippers, this is giving them a license to bite and chew a variety of household items. He can not distinguish between things that are good to bite and those that they are not.
Pups that are teething are likely to be biting puppies. However, you might think its cute with the decimation role he played the day before, but you have to put your foot down. Dogs only understand the rules if they are absolute. Correct or not is Right. The punishment must as well fit the crime. In the case of inanimate objects, a newspaper rolled up with a sharp noise report, should get your message across.
You must hold in reserve the most serious punishment for infractions which involve your puppy biting a human. No matter how fun loving, lacking in spite or whatever, a puppy must be deterred from the idea that biting a human is acceptable. Let's say your daughter decides to share some fat scraps from her dinner plate with her puppy. He is certainly eager to share in this largess, inadvertently biting her in his haste. While he means no harm, if you let this pass unpunished, you are giving him a green light for behaviour that spells trouble down the road.
In order to promptly and unequivocally nip the biting puppy behaviour in the bud, you have got to come down on him hard. A sharp smack on the nose, removal of the food and the dog version of a time out is what you need to impose. Slip his leash on and give him a taste of isolation out on the porch, along with a firm 'bad dog'. This is language and action he can understand. He will know that his behaviour resulted in a physical punishment, loss of the desired item and isolation from his family.
Using this strategy, you can quickly and easily train your biting puppy right out of his bad habit. By the time he is six months old, you will have a permanent toddler dog who knows his limitations!
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