Educating a puppy takes a lot of time and patience. This is not something that you can achieve in a matter of days or weeks - it will take months. The trick to getting the most effective results from your little pup is to be firm with it but not deal out any physical punishment.
Getting physical with your puppy will do nothing but have an adverse effect in the relationship as time goes on between you and your pet.
Infant dogs just don't know how to respond or what to do when you smack them, even lightly. 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.
The psychology behind this is that dog when young, do not make the distinction between the pain it receives when you hit it, and the reason that you are having it punished. If it was biting on your shoe and you gave it a smack, all you did was to instill terror and distress into the poor puppy, without it knowing what it had done wrong. It might be a different case for adult dogs.
You might think that punishing your dog with a light smack is fine. It might not hurt so much but it will terrify the life out of the infant dog and if you continue to do this, it will ultimately learn to keep away from you whenever it sees you, and you'll never form a close bond with it.
To raise a puppy into a trusting 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 it to stop doing something, look your dog in the eyes, tell it in a firm voice to " stop " then physically remove it from its present location.
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 good relationship with your dog - 32167
Getting physical with your puppy will do nothing but have an adverse effect in the relationship as time goes on between you and your pet.
Infant dogs just don't know how to respond or what to do when you smack them, even lightly. 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.
The psychology behind this is that dog when young, do not make the distinction between the pain it receives when you hit it, and the reason that you are having it punished. If it was biting on your shoe and you gave it a smack, all you did was to instill terror and distress into the poor puppy, without it knowing what it had done wrong. It might be a different case for adult dogs.
You might think that punishing your dog with a light smack is fine. It might not hurt so much but it will terrify the life out of the infant dog and if you continue to do this, it will ultimately learn to keep away from you whenever it sees you, and you'll never form a close bond with it.
To raise a puppy into a trusting 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 it to stop doing something, look your dog in the eyes, tell it in a firm voice to " stop " then physically remove it from its present location.
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 good relationship with your dog - 32167
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