How To Plan For Training Your Dog - The Foundation
Just as a parent has the responsibility to teach his child proper social behavior, a dog owner has the responsibility to teach his dog proper behavior. Why? Because dog behavior training can be vital to such life and death issues as preventing aggression, both toward people and toward other dogs. But primarily it teaches your dog how to properly interact with both you and with the other members of your family.
Understanding how dogs evolved, and how dogs interact with each other, is the first step to properly training your dog to be a devoted, loyal companion.
We’ve covered some of this material earlier, but let’s hit it again since it’s vital to understanding any dog training process. The original dogs were probably wolf pups adopted by early humans. These wild dogs likely learned to perform behaviors that their human protectors valued, such as guarding the cave or scaring off predators. In exchange for these valued behaviors, the humans provided their new companions with foods, protection and shelter.
That kind of relationship still exists today, of course, and dogs still can, and do, perform valuable jobs for their human benefactors. Those jobs include herding and guarding livestock, guarding property, guarding people, and finding game.
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