Dog

If you are thinking about getting a puppy and taking it home to become your new best friend, don’t expect your dog to obey all your instructions from day one. You will need to teach it slowly and avoid any form of physical punishment when doing so.

This is not how you should be training your dog and studies have shown that physical punishment is not an effective training method when it comes to any type of animal.

Puppies just don’t know how to respond or what to do when you smack them, even gently. It doesn’t know what you want and when you do this, you are not only hurting your little puppy but also training it to fear you. This is not the effect you want I’m sure.

Just like human babies, pups just do not know what you mean when you whip or hit your dog. Even though it might be doing something that you’re unhappy with, it doesn’t know that. What it knows however, is to associate pain and fright when it sees you coming its way.

Owners who smack their puppies constantly end up with adult dogs who are rebellious and unfriendly. Not only that but the dogs tend to not trust their masters either, keeping their distance whenever possible. This is not the kind of relationship you want to start off with.

To raise a puppy into a loving family pet, an important relationship needs to be formed between owner and pet. Screaming your head off at a pup is another way you could damage your relationship with the dog.

Instead of yelling at the top of your lungs, a better way of dealing with badly behaved puppies is to be firm with your puppy and tell it to stop in an authoritative tone of voice.

Teaching your puppy should be no different from teaching a child. Control your frustrations and never shout, instead be gentle and give it time to learn the difference between right and wrong. This is the only way to develop a fantastic relationship with your dog

If you found this report useful, you will probably want to check out the other puppy-related articles published by this author. His most interesting couple of articles covers garments especially for dogs such as a dog parka as well as a dog bandana.