Dog Training Tips: Make Your Dog Understand You
When you find your
dog has possessive behavior, do you know how to deal with? A few tips below
will help you to find out how to work with your puppy or dog to prevent issues
with possessiveness from developing. It’s much easier to prevent a problem than
correct a problem!
When you find your dog has
possessive behavior, do you know how to deal with? A few tips below will help
you to find out how to work with your puppy or dog to prevent issues with
possessiveness from developing. It’s much easier to prevent a problem than
correct a problem!
You should keep one thing in your mind that you are in charge of everything,
not your dog. You should set up a set of rules for your dog to tell what he/her
can do and can’t do. My dog understands
that something in his mouth doesn’t mean it is out of my control or any other
people. I can take anything away from him at any time and I often do. The
purpose I do this is to prove my point. I also give things back to him as a
reward or I trade him for something even better! He works for his food, works
for my attention and works for playtime.
Do you have a try to take your dog’s food away when he is eating?
You let him wait a few minutes and you don’t give back the food and until you
tell him OK. The purpose you do this is to train your dog to know a point. You
can not only give him anything but also take them away at any time. If
necessary, step over the bowl and move into your dog’s space the way a dominant
dog would do. With toys, it is the same concept. You own the toys. You can take
them away at any time, and you should. Don’t allow the dog to get toys out of
your hand until you say it’s OK. At feeding time, I always require that my dog
gives me about five feet of space before I allow him to approach his bowl. Just
because I set the bowl on the ground does not give him permission to come
running up and grabbing it. He has to wait. I wish I could teach my cat the
same!
Train your dog to know you can bring him benefits such as better
toys and great treats. When he’s chewing on a bone, randomly come up to him and
sprinkle liver treats or other goodies around him. When your dog has a toy,
offer him something even better. Drop random pieces of chicken in your dog’s
bowl while he is eating so he learns that good things happen when you approach
his bowl.
Train
your dog to follow your order not to touch anything that you don’t want him do.
No matter what you want your dog to learn; rewarding him when he follows your
order is the most effective way. Teach him to understand your orders. Since my
dog loves tennis balls, I’ll put a ball on the ground and say “leave it.” When
I’m ready for him to pick up the ball I say “OK!” You could also say “Take it!”
My dog now understands that “leave it” can be transferred to anything such as
food or even nasty things he finds out in the yard.
When you find he/she is extremely possessive, it is more difficult
to correct him/her than train beforehand. Establish a set of behavior rules for
your dog and you can have everything under your control. I also want to point
out that a dog can be obsessive without being possessive, but neither behavior
should be encouraged. My dog is extremely fascinated with retrieving and will
bring a ball to someone over and over
, but he has no problem allowing any
person or dog to take the ball right out of his mouth.
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