Agenda
After a swipe on
‘Closer to Home’ to deal with some sensitive encounters that my reader may
possibly meet while deliberating either to train their dog or not, and much
more the idea to hunt. It is only practical to open up this valuable lesson
that I have learned when someone is already engaged in the task of training their
dog or a newbie. You see, more than often, after seeing the point taught by
someone who is in authority or a specialist, be it through reading or a video
watch, our usual tendency is then to mimic the exact instruction to meet the
targeted task as though the plight that an instructor is trying to actuate is
in exact union with the condition of the dog that we are training, plus the
fact that both dogs occupies a very different environment. If you fail to
acknowledge this gap, you end up following the agenda of the trainer at the expense
of your transitioning skill on how to teach your dog that is not in conflict to
your dog’s learning curve. Or better yet, you wind up utilizing a well-established
method that a trainer is utilizing without thoroughly considering the temperament
of your peculiar dog. We need to bear in mind that a person who has developed
this type of consciousness is able to steer a straight course toward their objective
purpose without being veered towards how it is typically practiced. In other
words, we need to focus on the possibilities of success, not on the potentials
for failures. So here is the lesson: rather than evaluating the dog’s ‘response’
to the simple commands, you as a newbie should pay more attention to the dog’s
overall well-being and how it affects their behavior, for after the training
session, it will provide you a lot of information which you can use in
maintaining their good behavior and improving your relationship with your dog.
This also is to ward off some catchy training practices
customarily applied these days, which after all, an inept trainer holds a lesser
significant value to an already trained dog, though continues to promote it
because it is now part of the prospectus highly commended and promoted in modern
dog training that is aligned to a culture that wants to see swift results. One
of them is the use of an electric collar. This came out as a brilliant
substitute of a cruel way of pinching a dog’s ear to hasten a dog’s learning curve
to hold an object in its mouth while on leash. A brilliant substitute because,
you can now remotely inflict a dog and have a similar control as soon as the
dog is off leash. Then came the popularity of ‘positive training’ where discerning
trainers would still utilize the same expensive gadget but using them with a
very low vibration, and for what? Simply to enforce a command that the dog
already knows, as if that is the only way to do it. My point is, if one knows the
fundamental purpose of inflicting a dog similar to what the mother dog does,
who knows every individual puppy she has, the whole issue of ‘punitive’ and ‘positive
training’ will start to make sense. You see, dogs have different temperaments;
some are just simply stubborn while others are not, some hardly need to be
chastened while others do. The only cordial benefit that this newer discovery
on ‘positive training’ is the reality that though you need to inflict a dog to
correct its behavior (not viciously though) you must always end up with a
positive note to assure your dog that censuring them is over for now.
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