How To Care And Train Your Dogs?

This means that your dog is facing “home alone” problem. Dogs get extremely emotional when their masters leave the house and when they come home. Here’s how you can overcome these “home alone” feeling with your dog. Before you leave your house everyday, sit quietly for about 10 minutes at the doorway. No talking, no eye communication with your dog. Then you get up and go without talking, looking or turning back to see your dog. When you come home, you enter and you ignore the dog. They most probably be jumping with joy to see you. Strictly ignore them.  No matter how tempted you are to pick and cuddle them. Until they quietens down completely, then you greet them happily but just briefly. Make sure you are away from the doorway by now. Repeat this all the time. Eventually, this feeling will replace your dog’s highly emotional mental images of you leaving and coming home.

Dogs normally think in images and we can change their behavior in hundreds of ways if we will think as they do. For example, you want your dog to stay away from walking towards the middle of the road. You bring your dog and stand at the sidewalk, when a car passes by, just as your dog starts towards the street from the sidewalk, then praising its retreat, is a valuable exercise in negative imagery. This must be repeated until your dog avoids the street when cars are present as well as not present. Teaching your dog the “panic” code is absolutely necessary. Use a “panic” command followed by your dog’s name with a different tone. Then use another tone with praising words.This can come together with hand clapping or you crouching forward etc. There combined are particularly helpful when your dog is out of sight as well.

10 Things to remember when training your dog

• Never hit a young puppy
• Be consistent with your dog, rather than harsh
• Don’t allow biting – yelp and replace hand with toy
• Correct a dog immediately after they misbehavior
• Dogs need new experiences with other people, dogs and places, when very young to get socialized
• Dogs need successes and less correction before full maturity so they can develop confidence
• Train your dog in order to establish communication and give it purpose, and make it tolerable
• Dogs need to be in a dominance hierarchy with everyone; if you are not above your dog, you will be below it
• Dominance over a dog is achieved with leadership, never harshness
• Praise excitedly

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