Very Short-Term Memory:
Expect your dog to be a dog. He won't think like a person, or behave like a person, and he certainly won't understand why you're mad at him for something he did hours ago.
Expect your dog to be a dog. He won't think like a person, or behave like a person, and he certainly won't understand why you're mad at him for something he did hours ago.
Strict Pack Ranking:
Dogs need to have pecking order, even if it does't sit right with us humans. Even if you love your three or four dogs equally, you can not treat them all equally, because they must have rank in order to be at peace with themselves.
Dogs need to have pecking order, even if it does't sit right with us humans. Even if you love your three or four dogs equally, you can not treat them all equally, because they must have rank in order to be at peace with themselves.
Instant Gratification Rules:
If an action is immediately rewarding, there is no thought to future consequences. Dogs can not think into the future. They just don't understand that the human will be angry that the dog ate the thawing turkey on the counter. This is the number one reason that consequences must immediately follow an action for them to be effective, as your dog won't know that a time-out now is because he made a mess thirty minutes earlier.
If an action is immediately rewarding, there is no thought to future consequences. Dogs can not think into the future. They just don't understand that the human will be angry that the dog ate the thawing turkey on the counter. This is the number one reason that consequences must immediately follow an action for them to be effective, as your dog won't know that a time-out now is because he made a mess thirty minutes earlier.
Different Things Appeal:
What smells like something that's been decomposing for two months (and it probably has) might smell like the finest in perfumes to your dog. And such fine perfume is eminently suitable for wearing, all over the dog body, of course.
What smells like something that's been decomposing for two months (and it probably has) might smell like the finest in perfumes to your dog. And such fine perfume is eminently suitable for wearing, all over the dog body, of course.