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Factors Affecting Dog Training

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This is the training that is used to describe the dog training methods pre-dating our modern and what you can call `science-based' methods that almost everybody uses nowadays after dramatic increase in our knowledge and understanding of how dogs think and how they learn. Traditional method of dog training uses punishment, aversives, and forcing dog physically into the behaviuors the desire. Many of the theories evolved from wolf pack and dominance theory, and modern science have proven both of this to be incorrect.

Factors affecting dog training

Behavior whether good or bad is created, influences, enable and maintained by lots of elements connected together. For the past 30 years, a series of studies were conducted to investigate some aspects …show more content…

For the fact that high distress responses and reactivity are traits that we do not desire in guide dogs, lateralization provides possible predictive value for failure or success of a guide dog.

Other factors that can affect dog training are highlighted below
An example of what influence the training of a dog is inherited traits and these makes the individual a unique being and also can be little or obvious variations in individuals.

Some other factors are the environmental influences, the present, past, future anticipation both animate and inanimate. The beliefs you have about the dog species society and the approach you have while training your dog (both current and past approach) are also factors.

The last factor that affects dog training that you will know here and now is he human and canine psychology, the presence or absence of the insights and understanding of these psychologies as species and …show more content…

But the amazes me most is that I haven’t seen a large collection of different tools, advice and equipment than what is available for training dogs. Below, you will read about some of these tools.

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