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Obedience Training Dogs – Your Established Boundaries
By doglover | February 3, 2010
We all function far happier when there are rules and guidelines to keep us in check. Either through laws, taboos or even social norms we instinctively understand how we must behave. Dogs are exactly the same. Just as the yard they run around in is contained by a fence, they ought to have similar mental boundaries so that they behave in an proper and acceptable manner. With this article lets look at the importance of creating mental boundaries in obedience training dogs and precisely how we achieve doing it.
I will startwith a relevant analogy. If we put a few fleas into a jar, they would, very quickly, leap out. When you put a top on the jar, the fleas would leap and keep hitting the lid but after a time would start to associate hoping that high with a headache. It would then be possible to take away the lid and the fleas will no longer hop out of the jar. They would have imposed a limit on themselves by repetition and, even after the physical boundary had been got rid of, will still be conditioned by the mental boundary.
In a very similar way, you must develop behaviour boundaries for your pet dog when it first arrives. The vital thing when establishing behaviour boundaries is is that you should be completely consistent. It would be useless, for example if you overlooked your dog getting onto your bed after a bath when it is all clean and fluffy and then getting upset when it hops on when it has just been rolling in the mud. The dog does not differentiate between OK if clean and not OK if dirty. The sofa/bed/chair is allowed unless there is a behaviour barrier that has been consistently reinforced to tell the dog that it is forbidden. Also, if if it’s Ok for your dog to climb on the sofa in your place, don’t be upset if it bounds onto other peoples’ sofas when out.
Just the same applies with what may be allowed for a pup but not for the fully grown dog. A rotweiller puppy curled up on your lap while you are watching television may be warm and comforting for both of you. However, when puppy is fully grown and you have to sit on the floor whilst your hound sits on the sofa watching television, things won’t be quite so cozy.
When first getting a dog you must decide upon and define the appropriate behaviour boundaries. Then you must reinforce these behaviour boundaries all of the time in a totally consistent manner so your dog can understand them. Very soon, your dog, exactly like the fleas in the jar, will be happier without constantly creating a headache for both of you!
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