I can’t stress enough, the importance of Labrador training! Because with regards to your Labrador, you want to enrich the quality of his life.
The level of successfully training your Labrador, will depend upon yourself. The thought of ‘naughtiness’ is a human way of seeing things, that has been inaccurately applied to dog behaviour.
Your new pet is not ” self-willed” or ” disruptive.” He is acting like a true Labrador, until you train him in a different patterns. Remember that he did not come into this world instinctively knowing that there are rules and regulations.
Let’s evaluate a few examples, trained pup vs an untrained pup.The life of an untrained dog. The untrained dog can miss out on so many things in life. A good example of this is when the family sit’s down for dinner, and he wants to steal or beg for food. For obvious reasons he then has to be locked away, either in his crate or in the yard.
People don’t frequently take their four footed friend for a walk, because he pulls too much on the leash. And for obvious reasons, you can’t exactly take him off the leash, because he will go crazy and berserk, chasing other animals like a bat out of hell.
You do not think you want to pay the vet bills for this, or bring an elephant home.
When your friends come to visit you, you have to lock the dog away because he can cause embarrassing situations.
What about a trip to the country side, or maybe a pleasant, stress free walk on the beach? I don’t think so, there are many things that can go wrong, for example he can jump on people or children and if he is aggressive, even bite them.
He could even bite out of eagerness to play. In other words you have no control and your dog is unpredictable.
Now let’s evaluate the opposite scenario, the life of a well trained dog. The well trained dog can sit next to the table where the family members or friends are eating and drinking, due to the fact that he knows not too beg or to ask for snacks.
Because he is so well behaved he can be taken for walks. He doesn’t pull on the leash and can be taken off the leash, because he is well behaved and will not run after or chase any other animals.
The family can basically take him anywhere without having any fear, that he will tear things down. Now I don’t know about you but to me the trained dog sounds like a much better bet.
I would say that all dogs are teachable and trainable, but in this article we are specifically focusing on the Labrador.
The basic motivation for a dog’s learning behaviour is usually getting a reward. The reward can be considered as a treat need or something the dog would enjoy.
Let’s say for arguments sake, you leave your Labrador alone to learn on it’s own. In many cases he will raid the bins, because after all the good stuff is in there. He might chase after cats or other animals because chasing is fun.
He may even tear away at your shoes and your socks ask me I know. He will do all of these things because he does not know any better, you must remember that your Labrador is still a dog and dogs Have Naturally-occuring Born instincts and drives that results in behaviours that humans might not like. to Learn more you can visit my blog