Here are the top five annoying
behaviours by dog owners, at the dog park.
Not exact matches
Rescued
dogs frequently experience some level of separation anxiety, which can sometimes be severe, or were «disposed of»
by their former
owners because of destructive
behaviours, lack of socialization, or lack of obedience training.
Anxietybased
behaviour is one of the main problems reported
by dog owners to behaviourists.
The program is paid for
by adoption fees as well as
by the
owners of the other 4000 - plus
dogs, who send their
dogs to prison for a month of «boarding - in training» to correct
behaviour issues.
What the researchers wanted to do was to closely observe how these
dogs now reacted when asked for each of these
behaviours by their
owners.
Patch gets nagged
by his
owner all the time for «grumbling» at other
dogs and she calls him away from them, though you can see from their
behaviour that they are perfectly happy with him.
Alternatively, Hayley Bayles thinks that «
owners of small
dogs tend to feed their
dogs the
behaviour by treating them like babies and not actual
dogs.»
Many
behaviours seen in domestic
dog breeds do exist in their wolf ancestors, but artificial selection has refined and exaggerated some desirable companion qualities and specialist working skills required
by owners.
Often, these
behaviours have been «rewarded»
by the
dog's
owner (either intentionally or unintentionally) and have become habits.
She says, «I think many
dogs suffer with separation anxiety, but if they are not displaying the more problematic symptoms (like destructive
behaviours) then they suffer in silence, undetected
by their
owners that they are actually unhappy.»
Accordingly, the victim of a
dog attack does not have to prove that the
dog's
owner was negligent or that the
dog's
behaviour was in any way caused
by the
owner.