Hmm.

Hi. I just got done vacuming down stairs and noticed that Abbie no
longer barks at the vacume cleaner. :) Now when she used to do this,
I'd say "NO! " to her and she'd stop. But then next time she'd do this
and I'd ignore her barking Cosmo got in on the action and would BARK
AT HER.  I now realize Cosmo was correcting her. She no longer barks
at the vacuume cleaner. How about that! :)

Further how do we know when we should ignore a behavior or correct it.

I think, and I invite opinion here, we should correct it initially
then ignore it if it reoccurs and reward with affection when it
doesn't reoccur. hmmm.

I would think wheter to correct or ignore is dependant on what the
behavior is?

IE: Jumping. Nobody likes to be jumped on when they come in the door.
We know this to be annoying and will correct the dog so they don't do
this. I found out recently that in the pack dogs do not greet each
other this way. Dogs jump as puppies at each other in play. The mother
corrects them if they jump at her and they soon learn not to jump as a
greeting because one does not jump at their pack leader. In the pack
the mother dog is the pack leader to her pups.

As a human you are pack leader to your dog but if you allow yoru dog
to jump on you you arellowoing the dog to be pack leader. Therfore
this behavior can not be ignored. It has to be corrected.

When to know when we are being the leader or the follower is in how or
dog reacts to us. ((((I'm into this in Cesar's book at the moement))..
Bein inconsistant confuses them. We don't want them to be confused. :)


He says yeah give your dogs all the affection you want but not at the
wrong time. The wrong time is when they do something wrong. If you
give them affection at the wrong time you encourage the wrong
behavior.

Well .. so that means if they act afraid, don't pay attention. Be calm
and assergive and they will calm down. And be submisive. (relaxed).

I noticed in the harnest problem Abbie will  come to me with he rhead
down = this is sumbissive but she is happy too because I pet her when
she comes to me.... her tail is up ... I do'nt think she's afraid do
you if her tail is up? If it's down between her legs then she's afraid
and I'd ignore that and not pet her just put the harness on and go.


Back to the correction. Do you suppse we only have to 'correct' if the
beahvior is physcial rather than 'feeling'? Feeling (fear) is best off
ignored. Then when they calm down we reinforce being calm with
affection....

Maybe  that's it then. Or I'll just let Cosmo do the correcting 

Cindy











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