Their high intelligence can really work against a dog owner who is
unfamiliar with dog training.
Not exact matches
At this stage, it is important for them to learn to stick
with the pack for safety, but they also need to learn about fear since they need fear for survival purposes.The message to the puppy is to run away if something
unfamiliar approaches them, explain Wendy and Jack Volhard in the book
Dog Training for Dummies.
The life rooms will serve as invaluable
training opportunities, allowing us to work on housetraining, crate
training, socialization to every day objects many of the
dogs are
unfamiliar with, and more.
Socialization means
training your
dog to meet and get along
with unfamiliar dogs and people.
This means that they can get along
with other strange
dogs in an
unfamiliar environment as long as they are in a balanced pack
with a strong, confident, and fair leader... an alpha
dog -LRB-... in our case, a well -
trained dog handler).
All this hopefully helps give an answer to the emotional question about why we
train purebred
dogs almost exclusively, rather than shelter
dogs — in short, because it is often impossible to know the trauma histories of shelter
dogs, or which breeding characteristic of the «mixed breed» might prevail when the
dog is faced
with an
unfamiliar situation.