ROAR Dog Training
Obedience
Fundamental elements of human and dog companionships are mutual trust and respect, loyalty and obedience.
This is to ensure safety, boundaries, leadership, structure, and the love and joy of having a dog of course!
Understand that a dog, is a dog, by instinctual nature, an apex predator, from a pack environment. You cannot take the dog, out of a dog. Regardless of the size of the paw, jaw or breed, there is ALWAYS a pack leader. This is inherent to every dog.
If you do not know how to be the pack leader, the dog does and will assume this position in the pack, with or without you knowing it. Pack leadership can waiver. Once established (if it is you), you will be tested, in a lot of circumstances. Daily when you get up, or get home from work, or go to a new place, or environment, or walk or see a new or known dog, or feed time.
Your dog will test you, to see if you’ve still got it . . . The confidence to be the leader. Dogs require confident leadership, or they will take the pack leader role. The dynamics of the pack order are filtered through the family (the pack) unit. Everyone in the household is all part of the pack, and evidently, like a pecking order.
That’s why establishing basic or advanced obedience is critical to the dog’s life and structure, as well as your family. If the dog assumes the pack leader position, that is when behavioural problems begin to develop. Left unchecked and untrained, this can escalate into a multitude of issues and problems, and quite rapidly.
Often, owners are encouraging certain dog behaviours. Unknowingly, not following through with your command, the misplaced or mistimed reward, as simple as a pat or a treat, is rewarding the dog. So the dog responds or escalates such behaviour . . . to get the reward, recognition or they will continue to escalate what they got away with. Dramatic changes in behaviour will likely occur when you have that “AHHH” moment, recognising how you have contributed to such. You don’t know what you don’t know, but your dog does!
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