What not to do to your best friend and why, dog training
January 20, 2013 
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PLEASE READ THE WHOLE MANIFESTO IN AN EASIER FORMAT HERE: www.dogmantics.com It also translated into Dutch Swedish Spanish and Portuguese on that site. Here is a small excerpt: The many problems with using physical or psychological intimidation: 1) Without perfect timing, intensity, and consistency, the “training” amounts to nothing more than abuse. 2) The animal learns to avoid the punisher in order to indulge in undesirable behavior. 3) These techniques can cause irreversible emotional damage to the animal. 4) The punishment can increase stress hormones, arousal, and aggression. 5) Animals can habituate to the punishment — meaning that the intensity of the punishment must keep increasing to have any effect as the animal learns to endure it. 6) You cannot change an animal’s basic emotional response to find children, adults, or other animals (or anything for that matter) reinforcing by using intimidation; you can only suppress the dog’s punished behaviors. 7) Intimidation can cause dogs to hide their warning signs before attempting to bite. 8) Dogs trained with punishment can feel trapped by their handlers, since the decision to leave a ‘stay’ or to leave the handler’s side (to escape from a bothersome child, for example) can cause punishment. Animals who feel they have no escape tend to bite rather than move away. 9) Intended intimidation can actually increase the behavior you wish to extinguish, as intimidation involves giving a form of attention to an animal. 10) The …
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Lots of great points I haven’t thought about! Great and helpful video!!!
Hi Kikopup. Thankyou. My dog Kelly (Kelpie X) and I have learned a lot from the ample training and behaviour help you share via YouTube. Both of our lives have now changed for the better, for different reasons.
Recently I saw your clip about being mindful to avoid *accidental* visual cues (You walked Splash near a low hedge, and could see possible environmental triggers (another dog) much earlier than Splash). Could you point me back to this clip, or a similar one please? Thanks again.
Im so glad that you posted this video. I have a family member who uses dominance methods to train pit bulls! I have credentials in obedience training and dog handling. I HATE going over his house! because i can see the mental damage that he is infecting because of his own unstable emotions. No dog ever wants to do the wrong thing! they’re confused and in need of direction. not punishment. compulsions methods are so 40s and out dated.
i find that some people use the excuse that they don’t have time/resources to train sometimes so they use intimidation when there is unwanted behavior. Such as if the dog is about to attack someone, intimidation would be used kind of like an emergency training technique because it’s not the most preferred but for them, it’s like everything is an emergency…
Getting a greyhound soon so this is good to know, I was at the car boot with my dad and this dog looked at me and when his owner tried to get him to leave he wouldn’t he then came up to me and put his head on my feet his owner was really surprised because apparently he doesn’t get on with other people I have the opersite thing happen to me with cats they just run away so I hope my new dog Cruz will be just as nice.
The thing is these people who beleive in dominance and alpha theories say “dogs intimidate in the wild, use their eyes etc etc”…. WE are not dogs, and should never try to mimic how dogs interact with each other. Why use such harsh methods when there are better, more humane methods that DO work. We are humans with a dog who does not understand us or what we want, unless we help them to understand through positive reinforcement
Exactly. In any dog group the alpha uses intimidation and force even to control his pack. my chihuahuas are the same.
When I first got my 80 lb Husky mix he had a severe mouthing problem, and rules and obedience were new to him. Every so often he would throw a tantrum and I would end up bleeding from his teeth scraping my arms. I couldn’t get him under control with his regular collar, but a slip collar worked great. Now we’re using a Martingale collar.
Its still surprises me, just how many people do not know about Xobodog Training (do a google search), even though lots of people solve their dog behavior problems with this training program. Thanks to my mate who told me about Xobodog Training, I have turn my dog into the perfect canine pal.
Using facial expressions and your eyes to get a behavior is completely natural dogs use facial expressions and body language in the wild.
thank you!
i also would praise her when she would walk nicely next to me or would keep walking with me when their was another dog. But how could iI have gotten her to stop pulling in a better way? Also shes like 50lbs.
My dog was always a puller on the leash, expecially when she sees other dogs. Shes 8 and I finally trained her to walk next to me and keep walking when we pass dogs. I started working with her in the summer when it was hot because she would tire easily and on her own would pull less. Whenever she would pull I would do a small pull on the leash and make a sound. She walks well now. How would I have gotten her to walk nice with positive training? Shes not that interested in food when were outside.
What person in their right mind drags their dogs by the collar or picks them up by the collar and yells in their face? That is just cruel. I have been around a lot of trainers and none have done anything like that. No matter what their training style
Do you ever “punish” your kids? Or always give them paise? I guess not. Interesting…. How about taking aggressive dog from animal shelter who bites people? How about what people do to horses when they ride them and pull on the reins, is this abuse to you? What i am saying is ,correction training is sometimes good, and positive reinforcement is also good.