While obedience training goes a good distance to giving you a well behaved dog, it doesn't always solve or prevent all behavior issues. By working on your dog’s behaviour you can tweak your pup’s unpleasant behavior habits.

Let me tell you what falls into the dog behaviour class. I have covered a number of these behavioral issues already, and others I'll be getting to soon.

Excessive barking
Chewing on non-dog items
Eating Poop (Coprophagia)
Digging
Hyper
Biting
Separation anxiety
Jumping on people
Issues with eating
Mean to other dogs
Peeing places they're not permitted to
Jumping over your back garden fence
Running away from home
Taking off of counters
I want to address each of these individually, so I won't go into them now, but I want to lay out 1 or 2 thoughts to remember about your dogs behavior. Firstly, is the significance of consistency. You can resolve many of those issues by using the command words that your dog learns thru repitition.

For example, to keep your dog from eating dog poop, use the command “Leave It.”

To stop your dog from jumping on folk, use “Sit” or “Down”

To calm your dog from being hyper, you need to use “Heel”

As you can see, dog obedience is such a main part to keeping your dog’s behaviour in control. If they have been trying their obedience training, and are still having behavior issues, then the obedience training can be employed as a building block or stepping stone.

Many dogs behaviour issues come from separation nervousness. If you remember when I talked about separation anxiousness, dogs sometimes act out because of fear or insecurity of being left alone.

Here is a reminder for you on the best way to help with your dog’s agitation if you happen to feel that their behaviour issues are coming from this separation stress.

Start leaving your dog alone for short bursts during the day. This lets your dog know that you will not always be there, but you will always come back.
Ensure that your dog has everything they want while you are way,eg water, food, and toys.
Make sure to walk your dog or let them run around for a bit before you leave for an extended time period.
If your dog is housetrained already and they have got a way to dump while you are gone, try leaving them their big meal to eat before you go. This is going to help kill some time for them.
Consider adding another pet to your family. Many animals want a companion home with them.
Leave your pup in their crate or another secure area.
Ensure that your dog has had obedience training. This helps them find out how to control their feelings.
Pay a neighbour or a buddy to stop by and let your puppy out and play with them in the middle of the day.
Leave the Television or radio on so there's noise in the house.
Leave your pup with a unusual treat that they love and only get when you're leaving. Shortly they may wish to push you out that door to get something yummy for their belly!
If your dog has behavior issues while you are around, and you suspect that separation hysteria isn’t the guilty party here, then there could be a dearth of understanding who is precisely the master in the house; you or your dog.

You have to start making an attempt to clearly define your role as a leader and your dog’s role as a supporter. Ensure that they know what's anticipated of them, and reward their good behaviour.

When they misbehave, correct their bad behavior right away and do not let them get away with it. Your puppy will soon learn that what they are doing isn't okay with you.

Another beneficial tool is identifying what can cause your dog to behave badly. If they are barking at the doorbell, you could need to literally ring the doorbell more often to have them get use to it.

Neither you or the people around you want to have a badly behaved dog. Beginning early with behavior alteration won't only help your dog, and your folks, but also the other people in your lives.

Tess Maguire is a pro dog trainer who is devoted to helping dog owners enjoy the relationship that can actually boost and bless their lives.

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