Educating your four-legged friend is not an easy task. In fact, many mistakes are often made. Here are some things to absolutely avoid.
Training the dog can be a difficult task if you don’t know how to properly set up an education program, especially if you are a beginner. Training is a serious matter and often, due to inexperience, several mistakes are made, which can lead to counterproductive results and in fact not to educate the dog in the right way.
Each owner should be responsible for his or her four-legged friend, loving towards him and should know how to give the animal a good education, aimed at obtaining a correct behavior with other quadrupeds and with other people.
This article is especially dedicated to those who have adopted a dog for the first time and who do not know how to properly educate it. Therefore, if you reflect yourself in this description, take care not to make the following mistakes during training.
Neglecting The Dog’s Socialization
Preventing the dog from socializing with other people can be a very serious mistake and can create behavioral problems in the animal.
First of all, it is good to know that socialization is a key element in the emotional development process of our four-legged friend, also known as “imprinting”.
This phase begins from an early age, when the dog’s first contacts are with his mother and with the other brothers or sisters of the litter. After weaning and separation from the mother, it is important that the animal continues to have contact with people or other pets, so as not to stop the quadruped’s socialization process and to avoid creating trauma. This will help the dog to thrive both emotionally and mentally.
Once the dog enters his new home, it is necessary to allow the puppy to continue to relate to other people and others (with due care), both inside and outside the home. Remember that a dog that is able to socialize is a mentally healthy and balanced animal, therefore it will be easier to train it.
Don’t Reward The Dog
When our furry friend behaves well or carries out your order without batting an eye, it is a serious mistake not to reward his behavior. Reward is a tool closely related to training and can prove indispensable during a dog’s education process.
Each time the dog is rewarded after having correctly executed an order, the quadruped learns something and associates that particular action with the reward; in this way the animal understands what it can do and what it must not do to receive a tasty morsel or a loving caress.
By discarding this teaching tool, the training process will prove almost impossible to carry out.
Ignore The Dog’s Misconduct
Many dog ??owners, for fear of punishing their four-legged friend when they do something wrong, are willing to ignore the pet’s bad deed. It is appropriate to say:
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