A dog is a wonderful creature. They adapt to countless situations. They are amazing in the coalition, including learning the meaning and implications of many sounds like the human language. A dog's "vocabulary" can reach over 150 separate words! However, despite how prudent, how skilled and how adaptable it is, the dog will not become a language animal. Their first words are words, not to speak, words of the body. For this reason it is natural for your dog to interpret your words through body language, expression, tone, "filter" of your attention. And, if there is more than one word "do not agree" with the word you are using, most dogs will "follow" the language of your body!
In my experience, most obstacles in the dog training process are due to miscommunication, willfulness, obstinacy, or domination. This article is directed to training family dogs, but your dog is strictly a family pet, a dog sports competitor, a full-time working dog, but to maximize the use of training time is to communicate Means to master effectively effectively with your dog.
Communication begins with attention
The most basic form of communication is probably your attention. Even if you teach new skills, practice old skills, or refine sophisticated behavior, this is true. Turning attention to what your dog is doing in touch, voice, eye contact, smile, laughter, etc. will alert you to that action. This tells your dog to find interesting actions. Dogs are social creatures, strengthening most interactions and attention. They will evaluate it and work to get it - and this may even not consider whether a dog reinforces its behavior itself. Please keep in mind that you do not have to reward the behavior positively to strengthen your behavior during training.
Focus you on a training session promising to focus on your dog. Avoid training if you distract or occupy it in advance. This is a basic respect and consideration. You are not more than giving good friends! You do not have to stare at him, to notice your dog, but you should notice him. A practical trainer is conscious of "at the present moment" at the moment during the training and is ready to recognize it and notice it when any good response is obtained. If your dog gives a response not hired for you, then? Instead of drawing attention to it, please verbally, or otherwise ignore it and move! Drawing attention to poor responses often cement them in the dog's brain and increase the likelihood that he will provide it again. Please concentrate your energy and attention on the action you want to see again.
As you practice this approach with your dog, you will soon see that your dog works to arouse your attention by doing whatever you want. As your dog's behavior steadily improves, voluntary cooperation will increase, your relationship with your dog will be stronger, you both will get more fun training. It is difficult to find the underside of it, do not you think?
Effective dog training body language
Training your dog is the ultimate expression of leadership: You are taking the initiative to teach, teach and instruct your dog. Therefore, the language of the body should reflect calm confidence and composition, reflecting your role as teacher and leader. Let's look at the elements of nonverbal communication affecting your dog:
Invite learning with your expression and attitude. Your body's words start from the top with your face. Training must be a positive and pleasant experience for you and your dog. Before you begin, and regularly, relax your facial muscles consciously. It laughs gently. Make your eyes soft. Breathe deeply, relaxing breath and keep breathing! If you become relaxed and happy, present a safe shelter for your dog's attention. (And there's nothing to be nervous about, this is not world peace but dog training!) Soft eyes will invite your dog to look for your face. Your clear communication skills.
Your dog may reflect your emotions when you become annoying, frustrated, nervous or angry:
- He may ask for restless elsewhere by avoiding seeing you or by trying to get away from you. Some dogs tend to soothe you, arrogantly calm down slowly or even show submission behavior.
- He has the possibility of "acting" in distracting your attention or spreading the situation. Dogs of this type may generally become intense.
- When becoming nervous, many dogs reflect nervousness, looking around to divert attention from uncomfortable situations or find the cause of your tension.
Before directing your desires to you, if any of these occur while training your dog, first look at yourself. Breathe deeply and steadily, relax your face and body, smile and try again!
Tell the trust. When you train your dog, especially a new dog or a dog not familiar with training, your movements and body language should emanate a quiet, calm and confident air. As long as it is realistic, leave it standing upright. (Remember your expressions, your body's words also need to "invite learning.") In principle, an upright but relaxed post will help convey the secret authority . Keeping your shoulder relatively back, when your body needs to bend helps to maintain self-guaranteed bearings. This is more important for dogs who have started training, but even if they are naturally infatuated or assertive in character, any dog can be confused by too much flexion, bending, ducking, Bob Yes. He may think that you are acting naturally. The hand signal associated with the command must be clean, simple and deterministic. They should be free from excessive meaningless movements and never threaten dogs or pests.
Composition of communication. It is still there. Even if you are doing stationary exercise (such as sitting) or moving exercise (such as healing or recall) you will focus on keeping the language of your body quiet. Please do not fill your queue in spewing misleading, meaningless gestures or activities. Please allow your dog to concentrate on your words and intended hands and body signals. Do not put him in a position to sort wheat from rice hulls. When your dog becomes more advanced in his training, you can teach him to respond to the clues of words regardless of unrelated body language. But for the moment, the first one is the first. Please walk before you run!
Just over words
Communicating clearly and effectively to your dog involves recognizing how your voice's tone and communication of clues will affect your dog's learners and reactions. When you train your dog, remember that your voice conveys more than the command itself.
First of all, it is consistent. Owners of dogs who are not used to training often change the queue delivery to switch back and forth between "nice and easy to understand" SIT "and vocal and powerful" SIT! ". - Yeah? "For dogs, these sounds are totally different, the same cue is not exactly the same! Again, the dog is not a language animal. Providing commands with different tones, pitches and lengths confuses the training partner Please keep yourself and your dog favorable: Keep the sound of your clues constant, in other words, choose sound and stick to it!
Promote cooperation. When giving your dog a clue of words, your voice like the language of your body should be relaxed and be equal. Please speak with normal sound. Give your cue, your dog will depict as if you are doing exercises nicely. This confidence will be transmitted in your voice. Avoid tones that are loud, interrogate, or plead. Trying to train your dog with these "lost puppy" tones will be a frustration exercise. They can not get your acknowledgment. Remember, you are a teacher, a coach, a leader - not a servant. In other extreme cases, you do not need to summon a loud, violently resonating "voice". There are two reasons for this. Firstly, aggressive and intimidating tones tend to bring resistance to more self-confident dogs and make inferior dogs inferior to confident dogs. Neither is useful for learning, cooperation, or teamwork. Secondly, when your dog speaks in a normal, comfortable, everyday voice, your dog will hear perfectly. Assuming you are planning to use what you taught your dog to your dog every day, you will tell your dog here all day. So why do you teach your dog in the world that you must play "drill surge ant" to do him as you ask? It brings unnecessary stress to the training, not reflecting the partnership relationship which is certainly not pleasing, especially productive. In fact, your dog is very likely to respond calmly, pleased, and carefully if your voice and attitude are relaxed and conversational. Conclusion: To encourage cooperation, please tell your dog a clue to your dog with reasonable and comfortable and normal voice to your dog.
Honest gratitude is the key. Too often we are involved in too much, we concentrate on teaching dogs, when we need to relax and enjoy the moment of success, we are hollow, rehearsed and Frankly, everything like praise. Please remember that words are not important. It is your attitude to be counted. Praise does not require the degree of sound quality or pitch you need to tell you what you are really happy about at that moment. In other words, your dog is surely appreciated for successful work. Success is one of many baby steps to tremendously succeed, regardless of whether you've thought of it for a long time.
Please "test and run" the various happy sounds of your dog to see what kind of response you get. But again, the most important thing is that your dog knows that you are pleased from your voice and your attitude. Do not think that you can deceive your dog. He lives with you and is fully aware of how you sound and look when you are happy, sad, angry, indifferent. Thank you for your dog to give you praise mentally and it will come with your voice.
If you need to use your voice to indicate that you do not want a specific action, the sound is not angry or frightening and must be negative. The point is not intimidating but educating. While you work with each other, remember that both you and your dog make a mistake. The important thing is not to feel he is wrong, but to learn the best way to make him the right person. A dog trained in this way will understand your message and will continue to work with you.
Put everything together
So, when you work with your dog, please relax, smile, calm down and have fun. Can you do it in a different way? surely. However, in this article, we will explain how to maximize communication with dogs and help to maximize the effectiveness and enjoyment of training time together. Remember, both you and your dog will make mistakes going along. It is not only okay but also a natural and expected part of the learning process. Please get out there now and have fun!
Copyright 2010 Julie Cantrell / Dog's Behavior Services ~ All rights reserved.
