Understanding your dog
Understanding your dog is to know its language, and how he sees ours.
It’s also about development, training, and the real needs of the owner.
The information, knowledge of the dog, so avoid many disappointments.
THE OWNER
Conflicting conceptions.
The psychoanalytic school believes that the love of dog often reflects psychological distress communication with others, difficulty expressing emotions. The dog acts as a distraction, a tranquilizer. The origin is an error in the education very young age, excess or insufficient attention. Loving your dog is loving yourself.
The ethological school considers that there are people to animals and others not, for reasons innate, almost genetic. Man, welfare, needs the contact with other men, but also other species friends. Loving your dog is to love others.
The school considers that the dog utility performs a pleasant or useful, or social compensation or protection, or auxiliary activities (hunting, recreation, etc. …). The dog is hardly a privileged object, such as cars of the 50s, both symbol and relief.
Each of these designs gives examples solid, and there are at least these three possible categories.
THE DOG
Five basic patterns of dogs are by nature rebellious, independent, obedient, submissive, fearful, which can manifest itself through the voice and teeth.
The example breast, human contact, education will influence these trends in the compounding, stabilizing them, neutralizing them.
But these guidelines are not equally distributed among the breeds of dogs.
IMAGE
Each race has an image, a reputation, such as trademarks, which attract rather a particular class of owners. These will often enhance or distort the trend they hope to find, making a dangerous dog or frightened.
THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER
It is between 1 and 3 months, and any mistake at this time is almost final.
Just as the puppy has regular contact with other dogs to adapt, with a man, woman, child for admission.
Few minutes each day are enough games.
Otherwise we will have a marginal and potentially dangerous.
EDUCATIONAL RULES
They are simple :
1) The puppy is not a child, he does not understand verbal language, only the tone, gestures, postures, facial expressions.
2) There is no concept stored. So it can not connect his work to the interpretation of the master even if there is a slight lag in time.
3) By cons he remembers very well now, but you have to repeat things frequently, while others are acquired very quickly.
4) A dog in need of authority and routine to feel comfortable. Freedom and change are human notions that are destabilizing.
5) His joy, his deep need is the attention of the master. The rest was relatively unimportant.
6) He needs to rest, a quiet, semi-closed, obscure.
NEW PUPPY
First impressions will last. His arrival home is not a party, but a task. Neither friends nor neighbors, only the host family, men and beasts.
As soon as he was accustomed, walk wherever he has access, not elsewhere. If he tries to land, take it to the waste area, waiting to congratulate him once it’s done. If it arises in the house, especially not to say anything, take it elsewhere, clean out of sight.
For him, scolding him deal with it, what he wants. So tough, punishing, so prepare to start over.
Punishing a dog is the sulk away, lock him up.
To do accept, cherish others, not him.
OBEDIENCE
Quickly used to the leash, at 3 levels: Come, Sit, No moving.
Come : wait for him alone, just say, petting and praise.
Seated : same thing. Otherwise just put your hand back over his head, gently tap the bottom of the thighs and say: Sit. Petting and praise if it is successful, do not press the rump.
Not move : to halt the hand, or wait until it freezes all alone, saying not to move and go to him fast enough to congratulate him. If loose, turn back without saying anything and doing anything else. Repeat regularly, every day.
This was enough to gain acceptance in society but also to prevent him from being crushed, to prevent stealing, running away, etc. .. is the equivalent of family meals, the parents kiss their children, etc … the dog does not receive such orders as a constraint but as a pleasure to commune with and for his master, know that there is a place for him in the foyer, to be submitted.
THE REWARD
Immediately, otherwise it will issue to something else .
A: Taking care of him . This is the main (even scold him, hit him, are a reward).
B: Speaking the words are meaningless, if the voice. A shrill voice, syncopated, the restless, trouble, and irritates. A calm voice, firm, neutral, soothing. It’s like rocking a baby.
C: Caress : on the head and neck reflects your authority. This is the “this is my son.” Too much or too little support, without manifest joy, can disturb.
Under the neck supercaresse, to reserve for deserving cases.
Tap the sides, back: the normal caress of satisfaction.
D: Reward : a square of cheese is best. Emphasizes the others but may bias the relationship. Not to do so to correct an error.
E: The celebration : it is the height. The joy of the dog is the master of joy expressed by noises (loud laughter), gestures (lift arms), through postures and facial expressions (jump). You must go to ridiculous for you: it’s normal for him. This is very motivating.
PUNISHMENT
Also immediate .
A: Voice : Talking dry, clean, with authority, no long speeches. Otherwise it becomes a reward.
B: Hit : with an object: the threat is enough, the object that should only be used with the hand immediately, dry and order tracking obedience.
Serves little, because the dog likes the cuffs (the contacts of this type do not they part of the fun of rugby).
C: shake : shake by the scruff of the neck is a serious punishment, severe, which may mark a long time.
Not to do in case of aggression (on you or another animal, furniture …).
D: Bouder : the real punishment is to ignore it conspicuously. But do not give in and say “it’s over” with hugs.
E: Scolding : threatening head leaning towards him, glares at him, raising his hand. If he insists, you turn down and spit like a cat turning up the lips.
Stop : as soon as he understood, stop immediately, because if you train him to disobey.
He abdicated in stretching his neck, putting himself on the back, feebly stretching out one paw.
He protests rumbling, leaning forward, pressing on your legs, urinating defiantly. Do not tolerate it, punish immediately shaking and sulking.
YOUR MISTAKES
- The punishment when he returned after refusing to obey. You train them again.
- The hit forgot it was while you were away. This is the draw it again.
- Scolding, punishing him for any mistake made in your absence. It can not be reconciled, and so continue to develop.
- Do not punish immediately before you made a mistake, or worse, the rumble nicely. He said he has the right.
- Allow free to do whatever he wants, do not order it, the pampering without reason: it will take you to an incompetent, then for his puppy, and treat you as such as growling, nipping at you, and if you do not understand, biting: soon they will attack people around you will believe it when you’re scared or you threaten (eg if you turn down to take an object, if you cry …).
- Believe that you understand by interpreting his actions wrongly. You may think dogs can not think of him man.
YOUR LANGUAGE
The position of your body, your hands, your eyes, your voice, your gestures, this is what he sees, including what you believe to hide. You can not lie to her dog.
It reacts with the tail, ears, hair, the grin, the body positions and gestures. That’s what you need to know, especially before a stranger.
If you are afraid: he knows, so do not insist.
If you really do not be afraid: go ahead, it will yield.
If you look across the way, if you look, if you make a sudden movement, the beginnings of a caress, if you cry, if you stumble: it is a threat that can cause it to leak or attack.
CRISES
You have your problems, it has its own: think ahead.
Too young, he does not know what he is entitled to do and what is prohibited.
Teach a man to protest before: he wants to obey (this is one of his greatest joys, because for him is really love).
In the spring, fall, may be upset by the sexual season, and take you for a rival or a partner, if your behavior in relation to it lacked authority.
It is a sign of your disability, not his.
Any change in the restless. Too bad for you if you did not quite reassured every day when you get someone at home.
If you’re worried, bothered, even without saying so, he knows that and will protect you from others, sometimes maliciously. Simply take care of.
While running away, if it goes is that it is not safe at home.
If your dog barks all the time, running away or demolished all, it’s unfortunate.
Learn to think dog, or take any other species to keep you company.
PUPPY TRAINING
Two factors are essential:
Socialization , which is the learning of language and code of relationship with other dogs and to man. It is between 4 and 16 weeks and the 3rd month is essential. Weeks 8-9 and maybe 10 are where fear can definitively established. It is necessary and sufficient that during this period, the puppy have regular contact with other dogs, he will take the behavioral traits, and with man. He must learn to know men, women, children, through contact (fondling), games, and not just the meal.
The early experience , which covers the same period, but with special significance for months 2 and 3. Each puppy should benefit from the 4th week, about 150 m2 of land freely accessible. In addition there may be too reserved. Below, particularly if high cage, small room, kennel, etc. … he will never serve his apprenticeship to a normal life. It will be sweet, loving, or not, depending on his socialization, but it will be subject to sudden panics, crises refusal disconcerting, and he will have learning difficulties. We will have an intelligent adult, yet little able to understand orders. In borderline cases were frank mental illness: the “syndrome of isolation kennel, which makes the subject unsuitable for the company and is a ground for cancellation of the sale.
We must not confuse the proud and reserved, even shy of certain races, with inadequate mental disorders resulting from poor farming conditions. The development of a race through the livestock which itself depends on the tastes of the public, master purchases.
Therefore subjects produce robust, healthy, mentally balanced, and trials of work or education and the specific use is critical to maintaining quality, and these subjects must conform to the standard.
Gather it all, and we will have breeders and owners happy.