Sentences with phrase «leadership over the dog»

«SIT» The sit command is a very useful dog command and gives leadership over your dog.

Your best bet is to use positive reinforcement training methods and to maintain a firm and consistent hand in leadership over the dog.

In my experience, these types of leashes a.) tend to cause dogs to act more aggressively and to pull hard on the leash; b.) are more likely to trigger a fight with another dog since the dog that is straining at the end of the leash looks like it is in attack mode; c.) tend to be purchased by lazy and irresponsible dog owners who do not train their dogs to obey, and who tend to spoil their dogs, causing more aggression and bratty behavior; d.) undo most of the important aspects of your obedience training and leadership over your dog, especially obeying around distractions and coming when called, and over time they teach your dog to charge after other dogs, animals and even people; e.) are hard to control once the dog is at the end of the line, and can get caught in the leashes of other dogs, increasing the potential for a biting or attack incident; f.) do NOT cause the dog to get more exercise on the walk; g.) can cause a dog to run away from you, because if you accidentally drop the leash handle, many dogs will run from the plastic handle «chasing» them from behind and that could cause your dog to run into traffic and die; h.) have resulted in injuries to dogs and owners.

Dog should NEVER be left unsupervised with children or anyone who can not maintain leadership over dog.

When starting with Border Collie training you will have to establish firm leadership over your dog from the beginning.

Not exact matches

It would need to exclude, for example, the likes of Andy Burnham, whose dog whistling over some issues during the leadership campaign I don't think I'll ever be able to forget.

Behaviourists say «[when you let your pet dog sleep on your bed] you are sending them the signal that they are sharing in your leadership, and this signal is likely to at least eventually carry over into other aspects of their pack life.»

Dogs who feel a need to assert their leadership over their own food are the ones who are more likely to growl or even snap if he feels his vital nutrients are being threatened.

Given their pack behavior tendency, it is important that you establish your leadership role over your dog as early as possible.

These kind of courses teach new dog owners how to establish and maintain the alpha leadership position within their home, exhibit control over their new puppy dog and provide them with specific, powerful commands.

No one wants a spoiled dog, meaning a dog that starts taking leadership over the relationship.

One thing is clear from our experience and that is that no matter what the dog looks like as members of the same species dogs have variations on the same basic needs and if their owners do not develop the leadership skills to provide for these needs they will become insecure and over time some will develop more serious behavioural issues not of their own making.

If you have a pushy dog he'll be glad that the fight for leadership is over and his new role is that of devoted and adored pet.

Left to their own devices, a dog will often take over the leadership... which will result in many unwanted behaviors.

Obedience training is a must because this puts the owner in the leadership position over the dog, and the training also promotes respect and teamwork between both partners.

Without this training, owners may find their dogs have taken over the leadership position in the home.

Most dogs do not really want to be alpha, however, if their humans do not provide enough leadership, the dog will take over the alpha role.