Consistancy & Persistence Pays Off
Consistency & Persistence Pays Off When Basics Dog Training
If the rules change from day to day, the dog becomes confused. He needs to know how to consistently earn reward and avoid punishment or he will give up responding. The good basics dog trainer is consistent and always uses the same command for the same behavior. Most dog owners teach the dog that the command "down" means to be in a prone position.
Unfortunately, many dog owners use the same command to mean, lie down, remove you from the couch or bed, or stop jumping on people. When a command has many different meanings, the word ceases to have an important message. This makes it very difficult for the dog to learn obedience dog training.
Give each behavior its own command. The command "off" can be used to mean paws on the floor, and "down" may remain to define the prone position. After you decide on consistent commands, the next step is to be persistent in using them when using basics dog training methods. Dogs are naturally good at persistent behavior, and even better if rewarded for it.
Many a dog owner has given up trying to correct the dog that barks all day or jumps on people. Dog owners drop out of dog obedience training classes all the time because they are worn down by their dogs' seemingly persistent behaviors, and they give up trying to teach their dogs new dog behaviors.
The key is that the owners gave up in the basics dog training, and the dogs learned that persistence pays off. When an owner gives in, the dog's persistent dog behavior is strengthened and reinforced. Any determined dog owner can wear the dog down. Therefore, it is extremely important that you be more persistent than the dog about continuing the basics dog training process until the dog performs the desired dog behavior.
The dog must learn that the energy he spends engaging in undesirable dog behavior is not worth the effort, because you will persist using the basics dog training method and never give up. If you correct him for jumping up the first four times and don't correct him for the fifth jump up you simply teach him to jump up five times for the payoff.
Similarly, if you correct the dog for barking at the moon sometimes and not at other times, you teach him that sometimes barking is acceptable and sometimes it is not. The dog will continue to bark to determine when barking is acceptable and when it is not acceptable. So you see how important it is to always practice the basics dog training method constantly all the time.
Consequently, correcting barking dog behavior sometimes actually encourages even more barking. If you don't correct the dog for barking in the backyard because you are not at home, he will learn that barking is acceptable when you're away.
Ignoring basics dog training rules of constancy and sneaking out of the house so as not to cue him that it is acceptable to bark, he only needs to bark twice with no correction to figure out that you are not at home. A dog behavior will be extinguished or changed only if you persist in correcting the dog every time he misbehaves.
Basics Dog Training
If the rules change from day to day, the dog becomes confused. He needs to know how to consistently earn reward and avoid punishment or he will give up responding. The good basics dog trainer is consistent and always uses the same command for the same behavior. Most dog owners teach the dog that the command "down" means to be in a prone position.
Unfortunately, many dog owners use the same command to mean, lie down, remove you from the couch or bed, or stop jumping on people. When a command has many different meanings, the word ceases to have an important message. This makes it very difficult for the dog to learn obedience dog training.
Give each behavior its own command. The command "off" can be used to mean paws on the floor, and "down" may remain to define the prone position. After you decide on consistent commands, the next step is to be persistent in using them when using basics dog training methods. Dogs are naturally good at persistent behavior, and even better if rewarded for it.
Many a dog owner has given up trying to correct the dog that barks all day or jumps on people. Dog owners drop out of dog obedience training classes all the time because they are worn down by their dogs' seemingly persistent behaviors, and they give up trying to teach their dogs new dog behaviors.
The key is that the owners gave up in the basics dog training, and the dogs learned that persistence pays off. When an owner gives in, the dog's persistent dog behavior is strengthened and reinforced. Any determined dog owner can wear the dog down. Therefore, it is extremely important that you be more persistent than the dog about continuing the basics dog training process until the dog performs the desired dog behavior.
The dog must learn that the energy he spends engaging in undesirable dog behavior is not worth the effort, because you will persist using the basics dog training method and never give up. If you correct him for jumping up the first four times and don't correct him for the fifth jump up you simply teach him to jump up five times for the payoff.
Similarly, if you correct the dog for barking at the moon sometimes and not at other times, you teach him that sometimes barking is acceptable and sometimes it is not. The dog will continue to bark to determine when barking is acceptable and when it is not acceptable. So you see how important it is to always practice the basics dog training method constantly all the time.
Consequently, correcting barking dog behavior sometimes actually encourages even more barking. If you don't correct the dog for barking in the backyard because you are not at home, he will learn that barking is acceptable when you're away.
Ignoring basics dog training rules of constancy and sneaking out of the house so as not to cue him that it is acceptable to bark, he only needs to bark twice with no correction to figure out that you are not at home. A dog behavior will be extinguished or changed only if you persist in correcting the dog every time he misbehaves.
Basics Dog Training
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