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Nothing but a drill

A dog’s temperament is largely based on its instinctive trait, but for all that, its environment also influences its behavior. Training can help a dog cope with new experiences, but it cannot change its instinctive trait. This in a nutshell is the foundational bedrock of the good, and of course, the partial training methods that is at loggerhead in our modern world of dog training. In other words, incomplete training is customarily the building up of its emotional behavior only, which either leans towards positive or a punitive inducements. However, good training is for the most part, a kind of training to sway a dog to momentarily bridle its prey instinct for better coordination to catch a prey.

A dog’s behavioral aspect primarily rests on stimuli, and since it does not have logic like us; to start with, it is consigned to instinct. Now, the role of stimulus in a dog involves its social interaction, which guides it to action, but the force of its instinct is largely responsible to enable it to make a perfect persuasion or a balanced one. This is what it means to have a forbearing or a coping temperament. It is essentially a dog’s general attitude toward its trainer and as a result of all the other factors that it absorbs while in action. Therefore, what this involves is repeated exercises to gradually shape up its forbearing temperament; it is to condition the dog to mark those appropriate behaviors associated with the cues that the trainer gives while hunting. This training exercise somehow, is similar to the reason why people exercise. Exercise is an important part of a healthy lifestyle, it is not a lifestyle in and of itself, but it conditions you to have an aptitude to succeed in whatever daily affairs you have in life. Hence, a dog with a forbearing temperament that has been alerted by those exercises will mean a better behaved dog in the house, a better dog when you walk it in a park, and a better dog in any sporty activity that you want it to engage in.

A good piece of advice when exercising a dog is to first take an account of the kinds of activity that is involved in your hunting expedition with your dog. Next is to break them down into several exercises and associate them with what kind of cues to give to alert your dog to respond appropriately. The whole activity must be broken down into increments and reduced further into smaller increments to make it easier for the dog to get an overly simplified performance. You must use the same verbal expression or cues so that the dog can easily associate this with the previous exercise it was taught to do. However, when you move on to a new exercise, you must spend a few moments working on exercises your dog already understood before beginning to practice a new one. The main reason for this is to ensure that your dog is in an ideal condition to learn the new exercise. It is also very important that you finish your training sessions with one or two of the exercises he enjoys the most, then follow it up with a brief play session. The idea is that dogs tend to associate the pleasure at the end of an exercise as its sweeping deposition. Furthermore, it is very critical to know that it only takes about 1.5 seconds for the dog to accurately associate the cause and effect of an experience. This means that to teach your dog to do anything beyond this period is not only futile, it will also just confuse your dog or make it learn something that is entirely different from the thing that you want it to learn. Consistency and reinforcement given either during or immediately after a good response, must also be given due consideration if you want to send the same message firmly.  Happy training to all.