While obedience coaching goes a good way to giving you a well behaved dog, it doesn't always solve or forestall all behaviour issues. By working on your dog’s behaviour you can alter your pup’s naughty behavior habits.
Let me tell you what falls into the dog behaviour category. I have covered a number of these behavioral issues already, and others I will be getting to soon.
Inappropriate barking
Chewing on non-dog items
Eating Poop (Coprophagia)
Digging
Hyper
Biting
Separation anxiousness
Jumping on people
Issues with eating
Mean to other dogs
Peeing places they're not allowed to
Bounding over your yard fence
Running away from home
Stealing off of counters
I'd like to address each of these individually, so I won't go into them now, but I would like to lay out 1 or 2 thoughts to keep in mind about your dogs behaviour. Above all, is the significance of consistency. You can resolve many of those Problems by employing the command words that your dog learns thru repitition.
For instance, to keep your dog from eating dog poop, use the command “Leave It.”
To stop your dog from jumping on people, use “Sit” or “Down”
To calm your dog from being hyper, you can use “Heel”
As you can see, dog obedience is a vital part to keeping your dog’s behaviour in control. If they have been trying their obedience training, and are still having behaviour issues, then the obedience coaching can be used as a building block or stepping stone.
Many dogs behaviour issues come from separation anxiety. If you remember when I talked about separation anxiety, dogs often act out because of fear or insecurity of being left alone.
Here's a reminder for you on how to help with your dog’s anxiety if you happen to feel that their behaviour issues are coming from this separation stress.
Start leaving your dog alone for short bursts during the day. This lets your dog know that you will not always be there, but you'll always come back.
Ensure that your dog has everything they need while you are way, for example water, food, and toys.
Make certain to walk your dog or let them run around for a bit before you leave for an extended time period.
If your dog is housetrained already and they've got a way to eliminate while you are gone, try leaving them their massive meal to eat before you go. This will help kill some time for them.
Consider adding another pet to your family. Many animals want a companion home with them.
Leave your pup in their crate or another secure area.
Make sure that your dog has had obedience training. This helps them find out how to control their feelings.
Pay a neighbour or a chum to stop by and let your pup out and play with them in the middle of the day.
Leave the Television or radio on so there is noise in the house.
Leave your puppy with a rare treat that they love and only get when you are leaving. Soon they may need to push you out that door to get something tantalizing for their belly!
If your dog is having behavior issues while you are around, and you believe that separation hysteria isn’t the party responsible here, then there might be an absence of understanding who is exactly the master in the house; you or your dog.
You need to start making an effort to obviously outline your role as a leader and your dog’s role as a supporter. Make sure that they know what's predicted of them, and reward their good behaviour.
When they misbehave, correct their unpleasant behavior right away and don't let them get away with it. Your puppy will soon learn that what they are doing is not okay with you.
Another useful tool is identifying what can cause your dog to behave badly. If they are barking at the doorbell, you might need to ring the doorbell more frequently to have them get use to it.
Neither you or the people around you wish to have a bad dog. Beginning early with behavior modification will not just help your dog, and your folks, but also the others in your lives.
Tess Maguire is a professional dog coach who is devoted to helping dog keepers enjoy the relationship that will really enhance and bless their lives.