Other people’s dogs are as smart as people and very obedient. Many people who don’t have dogs want to own dogs, but they don’t know that other people’s obedient dogs are also taught with patience. A newborn dog doesn’t understand anything. If he destroys, barks, bites, or leaves scent everywhere, please calm down. These are normal and necessary. Dogs don’t understand what the rules are. The only person who can tell it is you. Before deciding to get a dog, you must understand these concepts:

1. You have to teach your dog the rules

Before welcoming a dog into your home, you need to figure out whether the dog's unbearable but absolutely normal behaviors in the future are acceptable? What expectations do you have for your dog? But no matter what, first of all Establish rules. Dogs cannot be pampered. Know how to teach your dog where to go to the bathroom and how to prevent bad behavior in the future.

2. Find a suitable and destined dog

Don’t follow the trend and make decisions on the spur of the moment. In fact, the perfect breed + the perfect puppy ≠ the perfect dog. What happens in the end depends on how well you socialize it.

3. Limit the puppy’s range of activities, but not cage it

Circle the territory that belongs to the puppy and put the nest, cage, toilet and toys it needs in it. This will help it know where to go to the bathroom, eat, and prevent damage around the house. If you don't plan on letting it use the dog toilet, you can put it in a cage so that you can predict when it will need to go to the toilet.

4. Socialization training determines the dog’s temperament

How to get along with the owner and other dogs is almost finalized during the puppy stage. The first week at home is also a key period for forming habits. If corrected in time, the effect will be very good.

5. Don’t create problems for yourself

Any bad thing a dog does when it is young is disastrous and sets the stage for it to cause trouble in the future. It may take several months to correct it in the future. Don't let your guard down.

6. If you don’t teach in the past two months, you are preparing for abandonment in the future

Don’t ignore anything from childhood. When you grow up, you will have sharper teeth, stronger destructive power and bigger and smellier shit. Endless barking and causing trouble at home. Once the owner cannot bear the losses caused by it and the complaints from neighbors, he will abandon the dog. And this situation can be completely avoided when you are still young.

When training a dog, you must understand that it is a dog and a humanIt's different from physical to psychological. Judging from my thoughts and thinking as a human being, isn't it typical that my mother thinks I'm cold? So, how do dogs learn?

1. Trial and error learning

Whenever your dog does an action unintentionally, give him a reward. After repeated reinforcement, this action will occur more frequently.

2. Habit learning

For example, gun hounds, who have heard the sound of gunshots since they were young, have become accustomed to it and don't take it seriously.

3. Imprinted learning

It is around 1 month old that the dog knows who is the mother, who is the partner, and recognizes who he is. If he is with his owner at this time, he will think that he is a human and will not be able to socialize with other dogs. It is not until 2 months old that it can leave its mother and follow its owner. So, it makes sense that a puppy’s personality would be very similar to its mother’s.

4. Insight learning

It can be said to be "thinking", just like a gorilla stacking boxes to reach bananas. Motivation is “achieving goals.”

5. Potential learning

It refers to the behavior learned by absorbing a lot of information in daily contact and under a sudden stimulus. For example, a mouse will look around before coming out of its hole.

6. Observational learning

Learn from other dogs, learn the behavior after seeing, remembering, and having motivation.

There is another way of behavior, which is conditioned reflex, which is regarded as an instinct.

After seeing this, everyone knows how to teach the dog, but after trying it, I feel that it can’t be taught? It may be that the timing is not correct, the operation is wrong, or there is no understanding. Another situation is that if the dog has no motivation, he will not do it. In behavioral treatment, there are 4 other methods used to strengthen dog behavior:

Positive reinforcement: Giving a dog something he likes makes the behavior happen more often.

Negative reinforcement: Removing an object that your dog hates makes the behavior happen more often.

Positive punishment: Add something that the dog hates to reduce the behavior.

Negative punishment: Remove something the dog likes to reduce the behavior.

"Positive" means increase, "negative" means decrease. To put it simply, these four are:

Positive reinforcement: Give food as soon as you sit down.

Negative reinforcement: Because in order to make the car stop warning, fasten your seat belt.

Positive punishment: I am afraid of getting a ticket, so I dare not run a red light.

Negative punishment: If the dog pounces on you, you turn around and ignore it.

Generally speaking, positive reinforcement has the best effect and has no sequelae. Positive reinforcement is the only way to truly change behavior. Next are negative punishment and negative reinforcement, and finally positive punishment. Why is it said that beating it simply and roughly is ineffective? Because punishment can only punish the behavior, not the dog, but who can do it without punishing the dog? And the results of doing so are also surprising, such as the dog pulling If you are afraid of being beaten after pooping, you will eat the poop, so you understand.

If positive reinforcement is used correctly, coupled with negative punishment, most problems can be solved. In general, negative reinforcement is rarely used, while positive punishment is rarely used.

No matter what kind of training method, it is inseparable from the above principles. But in addition to the method, it is also very important whether the owner is calm, decisive and strict during training. Otherwise, even a perfect dog will only need 3 days to be spoiled.

The best time to plant a tree was ten years ago, and the second best time is now. Even if your dog is no longer young, please don’t give up on training.