Sentences with phrase «dominance while the dog»

It requires a calm and patient owner who can establish his or her dominance while the dog is still young.

These dogs require a firm and experienced owner who can establish his or her dominance while the dog is still a puppy.

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What's brilliant is the way it switches up the idea of dominance in relationships, painting the male protagonist as a down - and - out criminal with a sort of pathetic fear of dogs while his girlfriend kills it in her own career.

While a puppy is still with his littermates, they fight for dominance to see which one will be the «top dog».

While in the past it was a popular belief that your dog was aggressive or refused to follow commands due to dominance issues.

While dogs may fight other dogs in their pack for dominance, some dogs will also try to show dominance over humans, including their owner.

A large puddle of urine on the kitchen floor or near the back door is probably a sign the dog needed to get outside while you were gone — not a display of dominance!

While there are perks in bringing home an adult dog, there are some aspects which may need to be addressed with your new dog, primarily: house training, crate training, basic obedience, fear issues, dominance issues, health concerns and bonding.

Since then, scads of books have been published that explain how to train a dog and deal with behavior problems using reward - based training and other principles of operant conditioning, while also discarding the idea of «dominance.»

While it may use up a lot of space in the book, all that explanation of how dogs and wolves are different ultimately helps us to fully understand why using the «pack mentality» and dominance approach to how one deals with their dog is not appropriate or necessarily productive.

While some may have dominance issues with dogs of the same sex, most get along well with other dogs and pets.

Dominance dog training may seem like a «been there, done that» issue, but while the science has moved beyond that concept, many people haven't.

While some affectionate dogs may still like it, for most being wrapped in your arms is often a sign of dominance.

For example, intact males constitute 80 percent of all dogs presented to veterinary behaviorists for what formerly has been described as dominance aggression, are involved in 70 to 76 percent of reported dog bite incidents, and are 2.6 times more likely to bite than neutered dogs, while unspayed females «attract free - roaming males, which increases bite risk to people through increased exposure to unfamiliar dogs,» and «contribute to the population of unwanted» and potentially aggressive dogs (Gershman et al., 1993; Sacks et al., 2000; AVMA, 2001).

While everything may seem fine while the puppy is young, as it matures it will seek to move up in the pack hierarchy and will compete for dominance with the other dog resulting in family turWhile everything may seem fine while the puppy is young, as it matures it will seek to move up in the pack hierarchy and will compete for dominance with the other dog resulting in family turwhile the puppy is young, as it matures it will seek to move up in the pack hierarchy and will compete for dominance with the other dog resulting in family turmoil.

When dogs show dominant gestures like growling while guarding their food dish, and they aren't scolded for this behavior, they inch up in dominance surpassing certain family members.

While some dogs are a little nervous and may eliminate, others mark their graffiti out of dominance or habit.

While a dog might be described as having an assertive or confident personality, dominance should be reserved for describing individual social interactions.

According to Victoria Stilwell — a passionate advocate for positive reinforcement dog training methods and Editor - in - Chief of Positively.com — «punitive, dominance - based training techniques... often result in «quick fixes» but ultimately cause more long - term harm than good while damaging the owner - dog relationship.»

This may be dominance aggression, which is typically shown to a family member who has tried to pet, hold, pick up, or remove something from the dog, or disturbs it while it is sleeping.