An aggressive dog may be reacting to memories of abuse, and will respond by biting, teeth baring, or growling. His body language will show all types of these violent reactions. A pooch who has been abused will be overly submissive. And one who has been neglected will constantly beg for attention and form an unhealthy attachment. All this is evidence that our four legged friends do, indeed, recall their past, and it is up to you to make sure that the memories they form now, under your care, are healthy and happy ones.
Quite a few studies have shown that your four legged friend remembers far more than you think, and this could be the basis of building a loving bond, or a negative, distrustful and hard one. What you do with your canine buddy today will resonate in all your future interactions, so it is to your advantage to build a positive relationship. To do so, treat your furry friend with affection and respect.
First, know by heart that hitting or kicking, no matter how angry you may be, is never acceptable. If you beat him after the fact it will do nothing to assuage the problem. He will not link the burger theft with the punishment, but merely take note of your cruel behavior. And shouting is never a good idea either. Your furry friend is certainly familiar with your usual friendly tone. It is sufficient to simply speak in a firm, authoritarian way to get your point across.
If you continually shout at your canine buddy, he will quickly learn to ignore you. Just like a normal child! Using your voice for disciplinary purposes is part of a positive reinforcement dog training program. As opposed to negative reinforcement, positive reinforcement works by rewarding your dog when he does something good and ignoring his misbehavior. Other ways to apply this method are confining him to time out, or to take away his toys or deny him any attention he craves.
You need never apply a physical punishment when other means based on positive reinforcement can work just as well. Spanking your pooch even if he was really annoying can be just as detrimental to him as spanking your child is. He may become aggressive and bark or bite back. He could learn to dislike and distrust you, and so avoid your company altogether, he can even start hiding from you. And he may become insecure and fearful, qualities which will add nothing to his quality of life, or yours.
As much as disciplining your four legged friend may seem similar to disciplining an infant, you must, of course, remember that your furry friend is not an infant. A dog may, in fact, feel bad about something he has done, but that does not mean he will automatically relate that sharp blow or kick as retaliation for his actions. All he will see is that hand or foot connecting with his face or flesh in a painful manner.
Is it possible his new habit of soiling the carpet is resulting from a medical condition? We noticed it wasn't safe to force feed him so we stopped and blend the supplements with his meals. However, he is still unpredictable and may sometimes bite when hand touches his side jaws. What should we do to correct this behavior? I cannot believe there are so many idiots out there that still believe violence is an ok teaching tool.
I hope to them it means that if their children are doing something wrong its ok for a teacher to give them a smack in the face and if they still don't listen they should get a beaten. Listen to yourselves - if you have to resort to any violence to teach your dog then you shouldn't have one. You are just to lazy to take the time to teach the dog. See I extremely disagree, my dog bit me and drew blood I could see the bone in my hand all because I nipped up the road literally for 2 min and he shit upstairs twice, so I went to slap the first time I have ever went to lay a hand on him i got told I should put him down, all this rubbish about positive reinforcement isn't true, "don't treat dog's like humans" all dogs have personalities my dog is 'cocky' people say that you shouldn't punish dogs but when it takes over 7 months to heal then hell yeahh they need punishing.
I've spent enough time with dogs to learn that they don't have feelings and thoughts in the human sense. There is a kind of emotiveness to their experience, some sort of subjective tint, but they definitely don't have the ability to choose their behaviors.
And in the absence of that freedom, their 'emotions' if that's what you want to call their fear and excitement have no more moral stating than the condition of a car's engine or a flower's bloom. Dog's aren't human-beings, but they also aren't dog-beings. They aren't any kind of thinking feeling being. They don't love, they don't sorrow, they don't feel anxiety, they are machines and should be treated as such.
Remember, your dog doesn't love you. Many creatures have adapted to take advantage of humans. Rats and roaches exploit our wastefulness. Dog's exploit our need for love by providing a pleasant illusion for affection. The only interesting question about hitting a dog is "will it work? Violence is one tool, but as the author has pointed out, it's not the most effective one in most cases.
Negative stimulus is harder to use than positive stimulus, because it is necessarily reactive instead of proactive. I think what everyone needs to remember is that animals do not understand being punished. All they connect is the bad experience and having to do with you. Dogs also see anger as a sign of weakness, they don't understand it.
Dogs need limitations and control, if your dog is destroying things or peeing everywhere think of what limitations it needs in order to have these things corrected. Just like a child if left to its own will get into trouble. We have a Basset hound and I am have set stricked limitations, such as she is not permitted upstairs where our bedrooms are this helps her to understand that we are in control of her environment.
Secondely we have taught her commands to help when she is being bad, Leave It is a very good one to teach because any time she touches something she shouldn't we say Leave It in a stern voice and stand with our hands on hips until she releases and then praise her for doing what we ask. I also do A LOT of leash training, when walking and also in the house. I have three children and a 2 year old who is grabby, by having her on leash when they are excited helps her to control her level of excitedness.
I also find that leashing inside gives you that extra confidence if you are having trouble controling your temper. We also walk our dog for 45 minutes in the am and then again in our pm. We notice a big difference in her behavior if she doesn't get a walk and is more difficult to control.
This Dog has taught me more about myself then I could ever have none, I am naturally a hot tempered person and with three kids on top it can be a struggle to maintain my composure. DO not cross that line just like you wouldn't with a child, hitting does nothing and teaches your dog nothing but to fear you. Training is everything and it gives a lot of satisfaction when your dog actually listens, you just have to bridge the gap of understanding.
Good Luck Everyone. Yeah, both my Sibes have high prey drive as well. It is part of their breed makeup. I read in one of the Sibe books that their original breeders, the Chukchi would let their dogs out in the summer to hunt on their own. Here is more on my experiences with prey-drive or what I like to call the "Squirrel Instinct"-.
I have a beautiful desexed male 2 year old husky who is my furbaby. I took him to puppy school and then obedience classes and have only ever used positive reinforcement training with him - I don't agree with aversive training methods and have seen dogs become very aggressive because of it. Riley is a beautiful dog, he is extremely friendly even to strange people and dogs. However, typical for a Husky he has a very high pray drive. Last night I was awoken by a horrible noise and my dog had somehow managed to kill an owl.
I was furious and I hit him. I have never hit him before. He ran off and wouldn't come near me until the next day. I feel incredibly guilty, but when I think back on it I don't know what else I would have done in that situation. Is there anything I can do? Or do I need to just accept it as part of his instinct?
At the moment I am managing it by keeping him inside in my room with me at night which is when he kills things the most. I am so glad to hear that things are getting better.
Sounds nasty about the chemicals. It is a good warning that we should all be careful when having our carpets professionally cleaned. I've found the route of the problem. My carpet has some sort of chemicals in it and I've complained to the property manager.
My dog's paw's would swell up. She's been at my brothers and hasn't had a problem but within 3 hours of being back here. It's this place.. I threatened to break my lease and they offered me a new place with brand new carpet, brand new cabanets, brand new doors.
I really do aprichiate the advice I have this page saved as a home page when I open up my IE it pops up. Thank you so much!! What seems to work well with my dogs, is to calmly no-mark them when they do something undesirable, and then follow-up by telling them what to do instead. In this way, we are teaching our dogs different ways to deal with stress and over-excitement.
For example, first I teach my dog some simple commands. When he jumps on me, I ask him for a Sit instead. If he follows the command, I reward him with attention and a game.
If he does not, then I turn away from him and ignore him. I had a lot of problems with my Shiba Inu when he was a puppy. I also got very frustrated and angry with him, but then I realized that when I was upset, his behavior actually worsened.
When I was able to stay calm, he was a lot more likely to calm down as well. She will not listen or lean with treats.. She constantly jumps on my couch, pee's all over the house and on my bed. She puts her paws up like she's boxing stands on her 2 back feet. I say NO!!!!! Chihuahua mix idk what to do anymore, I've been yelling a lot because I'm getting sick of her Alpha behavior. She has started peeing when I yell now. I have spanked her twice but I felt bad so I don't spank her I feel bad yelling but it's the only way she'll listen.
I leave her in the Kennel whenever I go somewhere she wont eat when in it, hours. I'm getting to the point of bringing her back to the shelter but they will put her to sleep so I refuse to, no one I knows wants her.. I pet her and she'll roll over and put her paws up and start clawing at my face.. I agree with you that rules are important for domestic dogs. Dogs need to learn our human rules so that they can live safely and happily with us.
However, there are many different ways to teach rules to our dogs. Personally, I do not use pain based aversive techniques because they are risky and can cause undue stress. As for whether something is right or wrong, good or bad, that is dependent on each person's moral compass, and we each make that decision for ourselves.
I really don't think anyone should abuse or brutally beat a dog in training, but i really don't think Not hitting your dog in a form of punishment is going to help either. He's never growled at me or snapped at me, he is my sweet baby and i love him very much.
My close friend doesn't believe my form of discipline works even though my dogs respond well to it, and in result her dog growls at her and snaps at her, her dog jumps on her glass table to sleep and is very disobedient, her dog will not even let her brush his coat. I don't abuse my dog and it annoys me when ppl all over the internet say that if u hit ur dog its abuse, hitting your dog in the slightest way is not abuse, its discipline. I would never think you should Hurt your dog, hit them too hard or exaggerate their punishment in any way, i hit my dog slightly on the butt and yell when he does a bad deed and he behaves so well.
The good things i do for my sweet hearts is much more then any times i have to resort to punishment and they don't fear me, my babies run to me every time i come home and cry if i walk to another room without them..
Recall has to do grabbing our dog's attention. When a dog is outside, there will be more distractions, and it will be harder to grab his attention and vice versa. I usually start recall training inside the house and in the backyard where it is quiet and there are fewer distractions. I call my dog, make a lot of noise, move around a lot, and try to be really interesting to my dog. Sometimes, I run in the opposite direction, which will often cause a dog to chase us.
When my dog comes, I make a very big deal out of it and reward him with high priority treats as well as his favorite game. Once I have a solid recall in low distraction places, then I slowly increase the challenge. Using a long-line can also help with recall. Dogs that are independent and have high prey drive will be more difficult to train. Dogs that are more people focused will be easier to train because they will more naturally give us their attention.
I do have a question and I know this is quite an old article. My dog listens quite well, but when he sees another dog he does not care what anyone says or yells. He'll run from me and the more I yell the more he doesn't care. When he comes to me 10 minutes later am I supposed to give him a cookie and praise him?
Because I have done that without much success. Yes he comes back but he knows that he'll get a cookie after he's had his fun either way, sop why come back immediately? In contrast I decided do switch to punishment. When he didn't come back I'd yell at him, even slap him on the butt. But after that it even got worse, he doesn't want to come at all because he's probably fearing the punishment. What am I to do, always have him on the leash? I am sorry however I completely agree with Lara's argument.
Animals in general should not under any circumstances be physically punished. It would not surprise me neither bother me if a dog did turn and attack his or her owner, you only need to watch the news to witness this.
People and animals alike can only take so much and will sometimes eventually snap, sometimes this can be fatal. My dogs also get excited when we come home. Usually, I just ignore them until they calm down. Once they calm down, then I give them attention and affection. In this way, they learn that -. I also noticed that when I come home from walking one of my dogs, the other ones will come over and sniff her mouth and butt. I imagine that the smells tell them where we have gone, and to some extent, what we have done.
Dogs often jump to smell and lick our mouth, for the same reasons. Great article! I have an 8th month old Bassett Hound girl!
She is so sweet and follows orders. She slips here and there, I feel that happens because she still is a puppy. The biggest concern I have is, when my husband and I leave the house for an hour and come back she goes crazy. I am not too sure if it is excitement or anger. She has a VERY musical bark so she barks non stop for about 2 minutes and crys too. She also jumps up and down. She calms down after about 5 minutes. We leave her in the house with out maltese whom she gets along with very well.
Does she have separation anxiety? Will she grow out of it? If not how can I train her to be at ease. Studies show that applying pain to a dog can significantly increase stress, which in turn will lower quality of life. The best results come from providing our dogs with a good quality of life. Training and doing commands are only a means to an end. The end is always to provide a good quality of life for our dogs.
I started out with aversive techniques, mostly leash corrections. I took many private lessons from a trainer, and practiced doing leash jerks on a chain link fence so that I could get the technique and force exactly right. This technique got 'good' results at first, which is to say that my dog followed the commands. However, things degraded fairly quickly after a short while.
My dog got habituated to the corrections, and always tried to fight back. Ultimately, these forceful techniques caused more problems than they solved, and this does not even take into account quality of life issues. I've tried both ways. Im sorry to say, But hitting a dog for severe infractions has always diverted the bad behavior. Some of us don't have hours and weeks to spend "training a dog the right way. I use positive reinforcement on most occasions. The best results come from force.
Sorry that most of you don't want to hear this, but it is the truth with older pound dogs. I don't have to fear her hurting me because no matter what I know she would never try to. She has accidentally hurt me but she is a dog, dogs have teeth and claws and they don't always know that our skin breaks easily.
For example, she has scratched me by offering her paws so many times. You may be right that 'Teaching out dogs to treat us like any other dog, will likely cause accidents with bad consequences', but I don't think that will happen with her because she doesn't treat me like she treats other dogs. She does not like other dogs and would never play with one and if she did she would soon be fighting.
Another thing, I think in all her life I have only bit her a couple times, disipline is usually a wap. Never on the head though! I just wanted to say that because I think many people do hit their dogs on the face. Don't get me wrong, I give her a LOT of treats in training! Discipline is only a type of training, it is for when she does something wrong.
Because when we bite a dog's ear, we are placing our face right next to our dog's teeth. As you say, this is how dogs play with each other, so our dog may 'play' with us by biting our ear or face in return. Unfortunately for us, our skin is thin, sensitive, and our face or ear will not fare well in play-biting. Just as dogs are not human, we are not dogs. Teaching our dogs to treat us like any other dog, will likely cause accidents with bad consequences.
Even if we decide to ignore all of the scientific studies, and ignore all of the risks, there are less dangerous pain based aversive methods that can be used.
I have a very dominant dog and I slapping is a great discipliner. Yes, some dogs might get afraid, submissive etc We have a great bond together and she is not afraid of me. She loves humans! I will give you an example of how pain works. Once while playing she tried to bite my neck. I just bit her on the ear. It worked liked magic, she instantly knew what I meant and she calmed down. When she tried to bite me it was not aggressively, she was just doing some rough play. I can assure you that dogs themselves do not teach each other what to do by giving them treats.
For example, once when my dog was a puppy she was annoying an older dog, my dog bit the dogs tail, the older dog snapped at my puppy.
It's sad to see that people will cling to violence - even that of a simple spank - when the data is there to prove it isn't any more effective than more calm and learned techniques. Hopefully in a few generations this need to train and teach with violence will peter out as we aim for a higher understanding of the world around us.
In particular, to properly execute a pain correction we need to apply exactly the right amount of pain to cause an aversive response but not more and not less. This makes it difficult to implement properly. In truth, it is even more complicated than that.
Different dogs have different tolerances to pain so the "right" amount of pain is different for different dogs. In addition, dogs may also become habituated to pain, so the "right" amount of pain changes with time. This is why pain techniques are risky, and difficult to implement.
And this doesn't even take into account timing, execution, and redirection. In short, pain based aversive techniques have many points of failure, and even small mistakes can cause big unwanted consequences. Certainly, when a dog does something wrong, "stress" and "fear" is the desired effect?
That is a very good point. I think all types of "punishment" even the non-aversive ones can cause stress. However, the degree of stress and type of stress is very different.
Amount of stress is also dependent on the temperament of the dog and many other factors, e. The thing with pain based techniques is that pain is a very intense stimulus and can trigger a threat response.
When dogs feel that they are under threat, they may fight, flight, or appease. A frequent fight response may lead to an aggressive dog and a frequent flight response may lead to a fearful dog. Noise aversion techniques such as shaking a can of pennies does that have the same level of intensity as pain. Dogs need structure in their lives, and when you establish discipline in your household, both you and your dog will be much happier for it.
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Our sound and motion alerts will let you catch destructive or distressed behavior before it gets out of hand. Care Behavior How-to Training Dogs. However, there are actually both positive and negative forms of punishment, and they belong to two different categories: Positive obedience training Aversive obedience training Punishment as an aversive method includes discipline that causes pain to your dog.
Punishment vs. Disciplinary methods that are considered to be positive and beneficial are: Time-outs Using your voice to put a stop to unwanted behavior, rather than hitting your dog Taking their toys away Avoiding giving your dog attention when they misbehave All the tips mentioned above are both humane and highly efficient at the same time.
Are There Effects Of Spanking? How to Discipline a Puppy Same as it is with humans, it's easier for dogs to get the hang of things while they are young. Through treats and praise. Why Positive Reinforcements Work Better Than Punishment Unlike hitting a dog, which is cruel and futile, disciplining a dog with a reward system is a tried and true method that has real benefits. Share this Article The link has been copied! You might also like Cats. Stay tuned to our updates and special offers Subscribe Processing your application There was an error sending the email Great!
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