How to Improve Your Dog’s Behaviour
While obedience coaching goes a good way to giving you a well behaved dog, it doesn't always solve or forestall all behaviour issues. By working on your dog’s behaviour you can alter your pup’s naughty behavior habits.
Let me tell you what falls into the dog behaviour category. I have covered a few of these behaviour issues already, and others I'm going to be getting to soon.
Over the top barking
Gnawing on non-dog items
Eating Poop (Coprophagia)
Digging
Hyper
Biting
Separation anxiety
Jumping on folks
Issues with eating
Mean to other dogs
Peeing places they are not permitted to
Jumping over your back garden fence
Running away from home
Taking off counters
I'd like to address each of these individually, so I won't go into them now, but I would like to lay out 1 or 2 thoughts to keep in mind about your dogs behaviour. Above all, is the significance of consistency. You can resolve many of those Problems by employing the command words that your dog learns thru repitition.
As an example, to keep your dog from eating dog poop, use the command “Leave It.”
To stop your dog from jumping on people, use “Sit” or “Down”
To calm your dog from being hyper, you need to use “Heel”
As you can see, dog obedience is a vital part to keeping your dog’s behaviour in control. If they have been trying their obedience training, and are still having behaviour issues, then the obedience coaching can be used as a building block or stepping stone.
Many dogs behaviour issues come from separation anxiety. If you remember when I talked about separation anxiety, dogs often act out because of fear or insecurity of being left alone.
Here is a reminder for you on the best way to help with your dog’s agitation if you should happen to feel that their behavior issues are coming from this separation stress.
Start leaving your dog alone for short bursts during the day. This lets your dog know that you will not always be there, but you'll always come back.
Ensure that your dog has everything they need while you are way, for example water, food, and toys.
Make certain to walk your dog or let them run around for a bit before you leave for an extended time period.
If your dog is housetrained already and they have got a way to dump while you are gone, try leaving them their big meal to eat prior to going. This is going to help waste some time for them.
Consider adding another pet to your folks. Many animals wish to have a companion home with them.
Leave your puppy in their crate or another secure area.
Ensure that your dog has had obedience coaching. This helps them learn the way to control their emotions.
Pay a neighbor or a friend to stop by and let your puppy out and play with them in the middle of the day.
Leave the Television or radio on so there is noise in the house.
Leave your pup with a special treat that they adore and only get when you're leaving. Shortly they may want to push you out that door to get something yummy for their belly!
If your dog is having behavior issues while you are around, and you suspect that separation tension isn’t the culprit here, then there may be a lack of understanding who is exactly the master in the house; you or your dog.
You have to start making an attempt to clearly define your role as a leader and your dog’s role as a proponent. Ensure that they know what is anticipated of them, and reward their good behavior.
When they misbehave, correct their bad behavior immediately and don't let them get away with it. Your puppy will soon learn that what they are doing is not OK with you.
Another helpful tool is identifying what is causing your dog to behave badly. If they're barking at the doorbell, you could need to literally ring the doorbell more often to have them get use to it.
Neither you or the people around you wish to have a bad dog. Beginning early with behavior modification will not just help your dog, and your folks, but also the others in your lives.
Tess Maguire is a professional dog tutor who is devoted to helping dog lovers enjoy the relationship that may truly augment and bless their lives.
