Dogs 101 Part 32 - How To Manage Dogs?
Besides the principal influences on your dog's capability to learn that are under your control, there are influences that come with your dog ,eg
* Breed-specific behaviors
* Personality
* Psychological sensitiveness
* Replies to visible stimuli
* Sound sensitiveness
* Touch sensitiveness all of these things affect the way the dog learns, what he uncovers hard, and what comes virtually naturally.
Breed-specific behaviors
Whether you've got a designer dog - a dog of mixed origin - or a thoroughbred, he includes breed-specific behaviors ,eg hunting or herding, amongst others. These behaviors, in turn, have been further refined.
Some dogs hunt massive game, others hunt little game, and yet others hunt birds. Some hunt close by, and others hunt far away. Some herd and guard, and others just herd ; some were developed to herd cows, and others, sheep. You get the picture. There are lots of different canine breeds.
The North American Dog house Club ( AKC ), the main governing body of dogdom, recognizes 153 different breeds, but many others are not recognized. These breeds are split into 7 groups, principally based totally on behavior likenesses.
Some of these breeds are reasonably close cousins, while others are as different as night and day. ( There's also a Varied Class for newly accepted breeds. ) as an example, the Herding Group, involves the Belgian Malinois, the Belgian Sheepdog, and the Belgian Tervuren, which are firmly related.
It also incorporates the two Welsh Corgis, the Cardigan, and the Pembroke, which have no similarity to any of the other dogs in that group but in turn are related to each other.
The most blatant difference between the two is that the Cardigan has a tail, and the Pembroke's tail is docked. Appearance aside, what all of the dogs in that group share in common is the instinct to herd. In addition, most of them share the instinct to guard.
The German Shepherd, for instance, is an affiliate of that group. Because dogs were bred to work with or under the direction of man, these skills help with your coaching efforts. But often the dog's instinct to do what he was bred for is what gets him into difficulty today. Put an alternative way, you may not need him hunting or herding or whatever.
So some of your coaching efforts are spent in redirecting these behaviors.
When you run into a road-block in your coaching, ask, "Is that what this dog was bred to do?" If not, it'll take him more time to learn that exercise, and you have got to have patience.
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