The contact is an effective and comfortable communication between a dog and her owner when they feel pleasure from communication and any interaction with each other. Without contact difficult not only to train a puppy, but also to live with it in one territory. But what it is necessary to make that the contact appeared?
Before beginning to train a puppy, it is important to owner to realize that before it though shaggy, but nevertheless the personality having the temperament and character. The paradigm "the owner − dominates, the dog – submits" hopelessly became outdated, having given way to mutual respect and frictionless training. Therefore it is important that between a puppy and the owner there was a contact.
Development of contact with a puppy
The person and dog will not be able well to communicate and interact if between them the contact is not come. But what it is necessary to make in order that it appeared? It is necessary to follow the following rules:
- To talk as much as possible to a puppy. Dogs can remember dozens of words and connect them with various actions of the owner. From here and magic effect when it seems that the dog takes and obeys the owner the hint.
- To control the actions and the emotions. The owner who constantly breaks on a puppy will not achieve from it ideal behavior. Even if that does not react on podzyv, rolls in dirt or digs in garbage, he behaves as the dog has to behave. If such behavior does not arrange, then the puppy needs be not to abused, and to teach to work in a different way.
- To learn to notice signals. Puppies communicate with us by means of body language. To show that it is happy, frightened or has unpleasant feelings, the puppy gives to the owner signals. An example of such signal - growl. If the dog growls, then the first that the owner has to make, − to analyze the reasons of emergence of such signal, but not to try to respond with aggression to aggression.
- To provide to a puppy freedom to the choice. Puppy − not the robot, and restless researcher. Therefore it is important to give it an opportunity for a research. For example, after "toilet affairs", it is possible to give it the chance to choose, where to go further: on a footpath on which many people went, or to bushes where many smells of other dogs.
- To make walks as it is possible more variously. To go every day along the same route or never to leave borders of the yard - sad occupation. Games, campaigns, jogs, repetition of teams − what diversifies walk.
- To be consecutive. Months to the 3rd are impossible at first, to allow a puppy to do everything that to him will take in head, and then sharply to begin to bring up him and to train. It is necessary to put a framework of behavior, accurate and feasible for a puppy, and it is soft, but to persistently hold them.
How to understand whether there is a contact?
Elena Molodtsova, the biologist, the expert in behavior of dogs and the founder of school of a humane training of dogs, allocates three components of contact:
- attachment;
- mutual understanding;
The attachment − when a puppy not only aspires to the owner, follows it, but also has sense of security and comfort. The puppy becomes more self-assured if his owner is near. He runs to the owner if he feels fear, and becomes more active researcher, feeling its proximity.
Trust from the point of view of a puppy − when he knows that actions of the owner and his reaction to behavior will be always safe and predictable. For this reason many modern methods of training exclude punishments: they lead to mistrust and fear.
Mutual understanding − when the puppy and the owner not just adapted to cohabitation, and understand reactions of each other and are able to master them.
Whether can live comfortably the person and a dog without contact? It is possible if their existence is forced, neutrally, and all interactions are minimized.