dmccarty
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Duh. I forgot to mention Wolters books. I read two or three of them first and then found the Monk books. :thumbsup:
Later,
Dan
Help with training my dog
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Duh. I forgot to mention Wolters books. I read two or three of them first and then found the Monk books. :thumbsup:
Later,
Dan
RonMar
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I have trained a lot of dogs over the years, and helped a lot of people with problems after they see how my dogs behave. The biggest single obstacle to dog training is the owner
The biggest reason for this is that they don't always think like a dog. Probably the most important thing to remember about a dog when trying to get a desired behavior to take, or an undesired behavior to stop, is that they are a "here and now" creature. The dog has no concept of your displeased tone and mannerisims when it comes back down stairs from doing it's business. That is why it is cowering/skulking, it knows you are angry, or about to become so, but it has no idea why. To give negative re-enforcement that means something to the dog, it MUST be DURING the undesired act. The same is true of praise, but praise is also good anytime It is also not what you say, but how you say it. If you don't actually catch the dog doing the undesired behavior, ignore them, or if they look like theyu are cowering/skulking, give them praise. Save the displeased tone for sometime when it will do some good.
My current dog, a yellow lab named Sadie, is the first dog I have ever used a training collar on. The best thing about a training collar is the ability to give instant properly timed feedback. I had some leash issues with here, like no matter how much I worked with her, she would not maintain a consistent heel. She would consistently follow her nose out to the full length of the leash. The training collar was wonderfull in this regard as it gave here no physical limit. She quickly figured out that with the collar on, it meant pay attention to what was going on and where I was at. Someone mentioned "Dog Collar Smart", and she is. She wears a basic nylon choke collar most of the time, but when she gets the "special" collar, she is immediatly into attentive mode. I have a short leash sewn onto the training collar that is held there with velcro in case someone insists I leash my dog, but I havn't ever had to use it. I take here just about everywhere with just the training collar(made by safe pet, beeps or jolts). Her favorite place is home depot If YOU are consistent, and as mentioned earlier, start with the tone/vibrate first, then work up from there, you will quickly reach a point where you only need the beep. I havn't used the shock feature on sadies collar in years. The beep is all that is necessary.
The biggest reason for this is that they don't always think like a dog. Probably the most important thing to remember about a dog when trying to get a desired behavior to take, or an undesired behavior to stop, is that they are a "here and now" creature. The dog has no concept of your displeased tone and mannerisims when it comes back down stairs from doing it's business. That is why it is cowering/skulking, it knows you are angry, or about to become so, but it has no idea why. To give negative re-enforcement that means something to the dog, it MUST be DURING the undesired act. The same is true of praise, but praise is also good anytime It is also not what you say, but how you say it. If you don't actually catch the dog doing the undesired behavior, ignore them, or if they look like theyu are cowering/skulking, give them praise. Save the displeased tone for sometime when it will do some good.My current dog, a yellow lab named Sadie, is the first dog I have ever used a training collar on. The best thing about a training collar is the ability to give instant properly timed feedback. I had some leash issues with here, like no matter how much I worked with her, she would not maintain a consistent heel. She would consistently follow her nose out to the full length of the leash. The training collar was wonderfull in this regard as it gave here no physical limit. She quickly figured out that with the collar on, it meant pay attention to what was going on and where I was at. Someone mentioned "Dog Collar Smart", and she is. She wears a basic nylon choke collar most of the time, but when she gets the "special" collar, she is immediatly into attentive mode. I have a short leash sewn onto the training collar that is held there with velcro in case someone insists I leash my dog, but I havn't ever had to use it. I take here just about everywhere with just the training collar(made by safe pet, beeps or jolts). Her favorite place is home depot
If YOU are consistent, and as mentioned earlier, start with the tone/vibrate first, then work up from there, you will quickly reach a point where you only need the beep. I havn't used the shock feature on sadies collar in years. The beep is all that is necessary.
