Unfortunately, a lot of love is not enough to make a dog obedient. For many breeds, it takes a lot of extra discipline. It takes the training of a focused small group, socializing with other dogs, and the ability to say no to make a dog obedient and friendly. Dog Obedience Training in Chicago incorporates exercises and practices to instill these principles in a dog. Friendliness is really on the surface. The training can help dog owners, as well as the pets themselves, with a few versatile and great characteristics.
Happy and Involved
Dogs should be social. Like people, they crave and feed on attention in many forms. It could be physical touch. It could be as small as talking, eye contact, and commands. Dogs want to feel commanded, but they are not always aware of how that is established. In general, Dog Obedience Training in Chicago makes them happy and lively. That plays off in how they act in the community neighborhood.
Trust
The relationship between dog and dog owner is built on trust. The dog trusts that the owner will feed them if they behave in an according way. The people in the neighborhood trust that the dog will not bite them when he or she comes running from across the street. All these relationships are built on trust, and that takes time to establish. Some dogs are also not in a position to embrace trust due to abuse or just natural-bred mannerisms.
Natural Characteristics
Dogs also have their own personality and natural characteristics. The dog training is not designed to remove those characteristics or suppress them. The training tries to find ways around them so the dog may have superior responses instead of, for example, aggression or hostility. A dog may also be extremely shy. Instead of fighting that by forcing outgoing training, the trainers will find things they do respond to.
They will then use those personality traits to break down that shell instead of punishing a dog for a shy or aggressive response. Contact us for more on how the dog obedience training works and what it entails. Training may take anywhere between one to six months.
