While educating and teaching a dog, many trainers underestimate the role of random factors that have, nevertheless, a strong impact on the animal. Contrary to a popular postulate of the theory of conditioned reflex activity, which argues that in order to develop a conditioned reflex, 30-40 combinations of stimuli (that are effects) in certain conditions are needed, an impact that is long delayed in the memory of the dog is quite enough sometimes. Simply put, a dog can remember some things not worse than human. Sometimes once happened events can completely change the behavior of dogs in any given situation, and this must be taken into account in the daily controlling of the animals.

A kennel is located in the corner of the territory of one of the military units. Due to lack of space, it has found itself next to a warehouse of fuel and

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Is there enough time that you spend on the playground for the qualitative development of skills? If you do not go to the playground and the instructor comes to you and holds private lessons near your house, are these lessons enough? Is it necessary to work with the dog even in those days, when the lessons with an instructor are not provided?

Let us just count up. For example, take a course of obedience, which I propose to conduct individually (with the departure to the house) for my clients. The course includes 20 sessions, held twice a week. To be precise, there is one more lesson, but it is offered as a test one, and it is free and is not included into the course. But for simplicity we express it in round numbers.

The method would involve five classes per hour each. And later, when the dog gets used

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Dog’s obedience in the initial laying schooling

The laying is a trick, which causes greatest difficulties for many novice trainers. Often one can observe now, when the dog is rather good in the basic skills such as moving side by side, landing, staying. Self-control progresses here, all is ok with Oporto, but the dog keeps on refusing lie. Many books describe how to accustom the dog to the lying. They are based on the use of food motivation (food method of dog training), the mechanical action (mechanical method) or a combination of mechanics and food stimuli (contrast method). But the use of food motivation is not effective for every dog and does not provide reliability. When there are the slightest attempts of application of mechanical stimuli, the thing happens that animal encounters it with unexpected resistance. Dog can not be pressed hard on the withers in such case, it turns

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Barking is the natural way for dogs to express their emotions. With rare exception, dogs successfully open their mouth when they wish to please neighbours and guests, to welcome the “brothers on reason” and simply “for the good of their soul.” But in practice it is often necessary to open their mouth when it is necessary for trainer. Barking is not only a part of the training sport system, but it is used in applied work. For example, search and rescue dogs must denote the human finding with voice. Many special dogs have to bark at a laying. Besides that, the usual owners of dogs do not mind if their pet barks, when someone touches the door or gate in an apartment or in a private house.

To develop barking and make it aggressive, assertive and dependable is usually not a problem for the trainer. The greatest difficulty is precisely

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A young dog just can not be reliably controllable under all circumstances. It is necessary to know and consider this.

One of the main conditions for making persistent skills is training.
Training should be conducted aiming to:

Make the dog work in conditions of strong distracting stimuli.

Bring developed reflexes to persistent skills.

Develop dynamic stereotypes as the reaction onto a command and environment.

The last point should be explained in greater detail. Imagine that during the walk you usually go to the store (for example, to buy bread). It is clear that in order to avoid conflicts your dog should be left at the door. What are you doing? You give the command “sit”, after setting a little dog aside to the side (so as not to interfere with passers-by, and that they did not interfere with the dog). For reliability, you may throw the loop of short leash

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