- Good evening, everybody, how are you?
Jeff Gellman of Solid K9 Training with my
"What Would Jeff Do?" dog training tip of the day.
Tip number 85!
Yes, you can punish your dog for growling.
Now, amending if you do it now, but a
dog at the seminar growled at Angelo,
we correct the dog, and I can already
hear all the stuff, "Don't correct the dog for growling,
"it's trying to give the kid a warning, next thing
"it's gonna know from not growling to an outright bite."
Bullshit.
Not only are we gonna correct that growling,
we're gonna correct the thought of growling,
the thought of biting.
Now, a lot of it's also contextual.
So, Angelo's just hanging out, walking around
couple meters away from, you know, the dog.
The dog growls.
Angelo's not going towards the dog, Angelo's
not teasing or tormenting the dog.
The dog growls, you punish that.
"Hey, dog, learn to live in the world with children."
So it's a two-way street.
Obviously we have to advocate for the dog
by saying, "Whoa, stop walking towards my dog with
"your hand out like this, even though you got
"food in your hands, and you watched one episode
"of a dog training show and you think
"you're a freaking expert already.
"Like, stand back."
But, that's a different situation. But if your dog is just, if you're walking
by a playground or if a bicycle goes by you, or
if somebody walks by you in a stroller, and you growl?
We'll have none of that.
You can punish it.
So, all this imagined harm, all this suppositive
stealth-like biting that is
always going to happen, we don't see it.
All we see is dogs become better.
That's all we do.
That's all we do.
Now, are there situations where a dog can growl?
Sure, but very, very, very rarely.
But you've got to understand pressure sources on dogs.
You gotta understand that yes, it's a warning, but
I was just walking by you, or I've just opened
up an umbrella, or I'm just bouncing a basketball, or
I'm just riding my bike, like, that's life.
So, most of the time, the things that people
are struggling with growling of absolutely can be punished.
Punishment extinguishes unwanted behaviors.
That's what you're looking for.
The lack of punishment technically is
saying yes, and it's self-rewarding.
So you have to be super, super careful about that.
I'm very aware of animal behavior, I'm very
aware body language, I'm very aware of what
a growling, and a bark, and a lunge mean but
I'm also looking for dogs to do better.
That's the tip of the day.
Jeff Gellman's Solid K9 Training.
Madly in love with you, tip number 85.
"What Would Jeff Do?"
I'll talk to you tomorrow, take care.
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