![]() I pity the dog that was adopted the week before the start of school - everybody's running around, they're getting pushed to the back burner, and what they learn is to compete for attention.” Then they come with us and look to us for that guidance. If they were with their mom they'd be learning social manners in their pack. “Puppies from eight to 16 weeks are imprinting and forming a baseline for what their life is to be. ![]() “But for the person who goes through three or four dogs and every one is nuts, that's definitely an indicator that your life is crazy.”ĭogs feed off energy around them, Ohlmann explains. Sure, there's the dog that's just naturally high energy. Nobody can get any peace because Spot is bouncing off the walls.Ĭhances are “you have too much going on in your life and it shows,” Ohlmann says. Jaromir Chalabala / EyeEm / Getty Images/EyeEm Your dog is just bonkers all the time. “But we do that to our dogs.” Is your dog's energy uncontrollable? It might be a sign that you need to calm down. “ if your grandmother wasn't able to take care of herself and you started saying, 'Here's a Little Debbie and another one and another one,' how awful would you be?” Ohlmann says. Obesity is a leading cause of canine death, Ohlmann adds, “you're killing your dog with kindness.” They end up with diabetes, it's bad for their knees.” He says. Giving in to that what seems like an inconsequential request now has long-term implications. If you just can’t help but slip them a little something from the table, then you're probably not seeing the bigger picture, Ohlmann says. (Another pitfall of repeating the command, we learned in class, is that the dog learns they don't have to obey the first time - not what you want, especially if you need to call your dog back to you from a dangerous situation!) Talking over somebody would be considered impatient. “The dog doesn't even have time to process the command. “It's the same as if you asked a friend, 'Hey, how was your day, what did you do, by the way did you see that TV show?' without waiting for them to respond,” he says. Impatient much? Yelling a string of commands at your dog without giving him time to take action speaks to a high degree of impatience, Ohlmann says. Fido doesn't obey no matter how many times you say "sit, sit, SIT, sit down! Come here, sit, I-SAID-SIT!" So just what are we doing that's causing our dogs to behave in these annoying - if not infuriating or downright dangerous - ways? Here's what this trainer says your dog's behavior says about you.
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