WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER HIT YOUR PUPPY: ...... The Power of Positive Dog Training. Heres the summary: Say your puppy pees on the living room carpet. Angered, you yell and bark at the piddling pup, causing him to dash away. Congratulations, Miller says, youve successfully scared your dog. But all youve communicated is that he shouldnt or . Next time, he might simply urinate on a different carpet. The lesson that you wanted to impart -- dont pee in the house -- has not been related. Moreover, pioneering research in 1968 conducted by Richard Solomon at the University of Pennsylvania showed that unless you catch and punish the dog in the act, its unlikely that he will take away any message at all. He will, however, learn to be afraid... of you. Theres no question that if carried out swiftly positive punishment can effectively reduce undesirable behaviors, but it will also give rise to two unwanted side effects: fear and aggression. In 2009, researchers at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania distributed a survey (PDF) to owners who previously brought in their canines to address aggression problems. On the anonymous questionnaire, owners were asked to outline the training methods they had used with their dogs in the past and also to describe their dogs response. Animal behaviorist and University of Wisconsin professor Patricia McConnelldescribes the results on her blog: The most confrontational, and I would argue, aggressive, behaviors on the part of the owners resulted in the highest levels of aggressive responses from the dogs. 43% of dogs responded with aggression to being hit or kicked, 38% to having an owner grab their mouth and take out an object forcefully, 36% to having a muzzle put on (or attempted?), 29% to a dominance down, 26% to a jowl or scruff shake. Violence begets violence, aggression begets aggression,
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 04:25:24 +0000
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