5 Ways owners unknowingly stress out their dogs

#3 – Expecting Your Dog to Obey Just to Please You

We all would love a Lassie or Rin Tin Tin, but we have to understand that those dogs are fictional characters. All living beings are looking to do what’s in the best interest of themselves. If you expect your dog to simply obey you because he loves you, you’re in for a rude awakening. Even the best trained dogs know that there is a reward coming somewhere, sometime. They aren’t doing it simply because they want to please you. Dog training is based off of a dog’s desire for a reward and their desire to avoid punishment – it has nothing to do with your feelings. When we expect our dogs to behave because they want to obey us, we end up either feeling like our dogs are misbehaving to spite us and punishing them for simply being dogs. These leads to nothing but animosity on both ends of the leash.

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