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The Outright Disconnect

It is inherent that whatever sporty initiative you are presently engaged in or wants to undertake with your dog, the call to duly communicates what you really want them to do rest on how to acquire that skill successfully. It not only saves you your bonding opportunity with them and the frustration to advance that cause in the first place. Sadly, though, with the barrage of fables that dogs think the way we humans think and that dogs can assume things because we humans are capable of assuming things, this certainly has affected our manner and method of communicating a directive to them. The message might sound very clear to us but foreign to them. Therefore, unlike us humans who behave by reason, dogs act by its genetic instinct, which then follows, that unlike us, they do things naturally without ever thinking about its consequence. Moreover, because they are bred with certain instinctive behaviors, they know how to do certain tasks well all by themselves already, so the problem now actually hangs on how to communicate with them to your advantage. This is also the reason why it is so extolling to see a dog in action or at work together with its master. But keeping them idle and inactive only dampens that chance, and a misfortune of keeping a luminary aside, it makes them uneasy and restless, which most call as an improper behavior! Now, all these expressed disconnects is so prevalent that many have even disregarded how a dog communicates. Unlike humans, dogs communicate instead with visceral gestures or bodily motion. They use their mouth, ears, eyes and tail to act something out and not by speaking them out like us. Therefore, it follows that those signals that they make is our only cue, or shall we say a catchword for us to take and to act on.    

In the past, maintaining a number of work dogs was practical since each dog carries with them an exclusive genetic instinct including size, shape, coat, and an instinctive behavior useful for a specific job. The scholarly approach in breeding then was fairly rare if not uninspired. However, the root component in owing a dog that time was its value in rustic living where hunting, herding, retrieving and guarding was vital. This meant that the more affluent they become, the more they would get their hands on a number from those choices. This however has changed drastically, for not only do we have commerce to take care of those basic livelihood needs, we also already have some well-rounded breeds that carries those multiple instinctive faculties, though some still have a slight dominant trait, like a pointer who points its tail to the direction of its hunt, some barks quite aggressively and etc. At any rate, we now have dogs that are now well-rounded based on those rustic living credentials. However, due to our modern day lifestyle that has convened indulgence and convenience, the pursuit for amusement has been advancing to greater extents. This includes the hunger for different kinds of sporting activities as its final demand.

This is the reason why I keep going back to a sporting dog training philosophy differently, because of the fact that these animals have their rudimental roots only made trendier today. This is like most children these days who envision a grocery store when getting milk is mentioned. The cow behind the milk is now out of the equation but replaced by a refrigerated and well-manicured location where all that it takes is to pick up a well packed, non-stale, non- breakable box, and pay it off. Therefore, to jump into a care and a playful activity with your dog calls you to first observe and mark why others do it well.