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Walking - Don’t let your dog walk ahead of you. If he is ahead of you on a walk, he will walk all over you in all other areas of your relationship! Loose Leash - Always walk your dog on a loose leash. Tension on a leash can cause frustration which may be taken out on other dogs or moving objects.

Supervise - Supervise your dog at all times. You must witness a problem in order to correct it and prevent it from reoccurring.

A Tired Dog is a Good Dog - Fulfill your dog’s needs both mentally and physically. A 15 - 20 minute run, twice a day will serve your dogs’ physical needs. 30 minutes of obedience training will have a therapeutically profound effect on your dog and will serve your dogs’ mental needs.

Attention - You can’t teach a dog if you do not have his attention. Get his attention first before you give a command.

Reinforcement - Never give a command that you can’t reinforce.

Mom Says ONCE! - Give a command once, then correct if the dog does not obey. If you repeat a command more than once, you will teach your dog that the command has no meaning.

Jobs - If you don’t give your dog a job to perform at, he will eventually find one himself and you won’t like what he chooses!

Calm and Assertive - Do not yell and scream at your dog when he is behaving badly.

Down Stay - Do a 30 minute down stay, twice a day. This will reinforce your role as the Alpha leader.

Arriving Guests - Before your guests arrive, crate your dog or put him in “place.” No one enjoys being greeted by an out of control dog!

Eating and Entering Passageways - Eat and enter all passageways before your dog does. Alpha’s always eat first and enter all areas first.

Attachment - Don’t let your dog follow you around like a laser guided missile. This behavior can lead to separation anxiety.

Love and Discipline - Always balance love with discipline and structure. If love was all that was needed, my business would not be thriving!

Tonality - Tone of voice is extremely important. A high pitch tone is a sign of approval and a low tone is a sign of disapproval. Your dog will clearly understand this.

Praise - Praise your dog for doing something right. Praise does not always mean you have to shower your dog with affection. It simply means you need to say “Good boy / girl” in a high pitch tone of voice.

Elevating Status - Don’t allow your dog on the furniture or on your bed. If you allow your dog to be on the same level as you, you are elevating his status and lowering yours. This is clearly not the way to establish yourself as the Alpha Leader.

Ignoring Problems - Ignoring problem behavior will not make it go away. Ignoring is condoning and condoning is approval in your dogs’ mind.

Corrections - Correcting your dog must have meaning. If your correction is not strong enough it won’t have meaning for your dog. If it doesn’t have meaning, there is no motivation for your dog to stop the bad behavior.

Behaving Badly - Dogs behave badly because they know they can and they don’t understand it is wrong.

Vladae Roytapel, known as “The Dog Wizard,” is the owner of Alternative Canine Training which is one of the most successful in-home dog training companies in the world. Vladae is now offering affordable in-home dog training in southern California.

Teach Your Dog the “Come” Command - 10 Simple Steps to Success With Your Puppy

Follow these simple steps and your puppy will always come to you when
called. This is one of the first steps to a perfect and obedient dog!

1.  When you say “come,” as soon as the puppy looks at you, tell them they
   are good. This will make them want to come to you even faster.
2. Bend down or squat, open your arms and have a friendly face when you
   call. You want to display a very inviting picture to the puppy.
3. When you say “come” it should be said assertively but never in an angry
   way. Then switch to a high-pitch happy voice to encourage the puppy to
   come.
4. Never punish your dog when he finally gets to you, NO MATER WHAT
   HE HAS DONE. If you punish the dog, he will think that you are punishing
   him for coming.
5. When the puppy comes to you, gently restrain him by the collar and give
   him a treat. Release the puppy instantly and say “okay” or “free”.
6. Never chase your puppy. Instead have him chase you.
7. Never say “come” if you know that the puppy is too distracted. Get your
   puppies attention first by clapping your hands or saying “hey” and then
   call him to you.
8. If you say “come” and the puppy ignores you, run in the opposite direction
   from your puppy and as you say “hey puppy,” clap your hands to get the
   puppy to chase you.
9. Call your puppy to do fun things, not for things that they aren’t going to
   like.
10. When you start teaching the “come” command, don’t worry about having
    the puppy sit perfectly in front of you.

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If you do not correct the dog aggression problem now, you are one second from disaster.

When you get a puppy, you have a unique opportunity to raise it properly right from the start. But always keep in mind that even the sweetest puppy will try to growl, snap, mouth or somehow dominate the owner. How the owner reacts to these events will be the biggest deciding factor in whether or not the puppy grows to become a safe companion or an aggressive dog liability. Remember that what may be cute today, as a puppy, will not be cute tomorrow, as an adult dog. Fortunately, early signs of aggression in a puppy can be easily cured. Unfortunately, signs of aggression in an older dog are very difficult to treat and there will be no guarantee to any dog’s owner, of any breed, that their mature dog will not bite.

Many dogs today are being euthanized for aggressive dog behavior. In many of these cases, the dog’s aggression was allowed to start as a puppy and escalate through adulthood. Because many owners neglect to identify and correct early signs of aggression, more and more dogs are paying the price in the form of a death sentence for being too great of a risk to society.

In order to prevent a dog from becoming aggressive, the owner must understand why a dog bites, under what circumstances a dog will bite, and what can be done to prevent this type of behavior. Leadership
The absence of leadership is the biggest cause of all behavior problems in dogs, especially aggression. The presence of a strong and confident leader can soothe a dominant dog and raise the confidence of an insecure dog. Every professional dog trainer and animal behaviorist will first recommend establishing a solid leadership role in the dogs’ life before anything else. It can not be said enough, that even a dog with good genetics and proper socialization can turn aggressive or develop behavioral issues if there is a lack of human leadership in the household. Leadership can be established through proper obedience training. I strongly recommend using my award winning, dog training program, “Obedience for Life,” (www.911dogwizard.com) to establish human authority and leadership for your dog.

Breeding
Unconsciously and / or naively, some people select certain breeds that are famous for their guarding or fighting ability. Some people are also getting dogs from incompetent breeders whose breeding stock have a history of biting. These dogs are born to be aggressive!

Socialization
Certain dog breeds need special management and socialization. These dogs should be owned by someone who is determined to properly manage and socialize at an early age and continue throughout the dogs’ life. Positive and constant socialization with people should start after the first few weeks of life and be continued throughout adulthood. Special attention needs to be paid to the two critical stages of puppy development. The two critical stages are: 4 to 8 weeks - socialization with other dogs / litter mates and 8 to 12 weeks - socialization with humans. Make sure the puppy is desensitized to the following: touching its ears, paws, upper part of the neck, and teeth. Make this a pleasurable experience by combining touch with a special treat that the puppy only gets for being accepting of this exercise. We like to use American cheese or Russian kielbasa! Also, dogs must be socialized with children, especially if the owners do not have any in their family. Children make sharp, sudden movements which will activate the dogs’ natural chasing instinct. These movements may also frighten dogs, especially the insecure, nervous ones. Positive connections between running, chasing and jumping children should be established by giving your dog special treats for calmly accepting the movements and sounds of children. Children will jump, run, scream, hug, grab, and pull. That is what children do best! Please note, that even though positive connections are being established between your dog and your children, NEVER ALLOW YOUR DOG OR PUPPY TO BE LEFT ALONE WITH A CHILD UNSUPERVISED!

Dog Training
Some people unknowingly train there dogs to be aggressive. They do this by allowing or encouraging their dog to bark at strangers. People believe this is acceptable behavior because the dog is supposed to guard and protect the family. All too often, acceptance of this behavior by the owner leads to an attack against the neighbor or the postal carrier. Allowing a dog to bark at even one person is perceived by the dog as approval to protect its territory against all people. Dogs are not supposed to bark at strangers walking by and they are not supposed to protect against neighbors and postal carriers. It is my observation that puppies that have not learned self control through proper obedience training and are allowed to bark at strangers, will often growl and bite as mature adults. Barking escalates to biting because eventually the dog feels that growling and barking are no longer effective in keeping certain people away from its territory. Frustration builds over the course of months or even years until finally the dog believes it is necessary to take extreme measures by biting or attacking anyone it perceives as a threat to its family or property.

Many dog owners participate in rough games, like tug of war, with their dog. Not understanding that the game must be started, won and stopped by the human and not the dog, they allow their dog to play on its terms. This means that the owners have put themselves in a submissive position while putting their dog in a dominant position. If a dog feels dominance and power over their owner, imagine what they feel against other adults and children! From my experience, working in security and police and special Russian forces, I will go on record and say that playing this game improperly is like playing with fire. Every dog, from a four pound Pomeranian to 100 pound Presa Canario, is looking for weakness in order to show its strength. Once they experience strength, they are not likely to show weakness.

Incorrect Punishment
You have to discipline a dog, but any human type of discipline will have the opposite affect on a dog. A dog that is hit, kicked, slapped or hanged for misbehavior is experiencing trauma inflicted by man. The dog will become fearful of its owner or other people on the street. A fearful dog is at high risk for biting or attacking any person who it perceives as someone who may inflict pain and trauma.

Fearfulness and Aggression
A fearful dog can bite because it is scared of a situation that it does not understand. In most cases, the cause is genetically driven. Insecurity will feed fearfulness. People commonly reinforce this behavior, by instance, when their dog starts growling and they try to soothe the dog by sharing affection instead of communicating to the dog that this aggressive dog behavior is unacceptable.

Isolation as the Vicious Cycle
Some pet owners worry about their dogs’ antisocial behavior and lock them in another room or in the backyard. This will only serve to make the mater worse. The solution for antisocial behavior is not isolation, it is socialization. A qualified professional dog trainer can assist with this process and can safely socialize and rehabilitate the dog. Avoidance as a solution to any behavioral problem is just prolonging the inevitable. Unless the undesirable behavior is corrected, it is only a matter of time before the avoidance approach fails, resulting in devastating consequences for both the owner and the dog. For information about A.C.T.’s proprietary methods and techniques for problem behaviors, such as socializing aggressive dogs, please sign up for a personal phone or email consultation with an ACT Canine Coach (www.911dogwizard.com) or refer to our Dog Training Resource Center for products and manuals on dog behavioral problems (www.911dogwizard.com). 

The biggest mistake people make is allowing their dog to bark when the door bell rings. The door bell creates excitement, excitement creates drive, drive creates frustration and frustration creates aggression. The Russian academic, Pavlov, made dogs’ salivate when someone rang the bell. So many people are conditioning their dog to become excited and frustrated when the door bell rings. Instead, ACT teaches clients to train their dog to react to the door bell as children react to the sound of the ice-cream truck. Now, instead of an intruder alert, the dog is conditioned to associate the door bell with a positive event.

Teasing
Do you know how attack dogs or police and guard dogs are trained? They are trained by experiencing agitation. With the dog being held back by the handler or behind a fence, the helper (agitator) is moving quickly past the dog, clapping his hands, screaming and knocking the fence. When the dog becomes agitated, the helper runs away. The dog begins to realize that it can make people go away by displaying this type of behavior. Now the dog is motivated to respond this way whenever it feels that someone must leave the premises. Is this not the same procedure that unsupervised children practice when they are teasing a dog and acting inappropriately by barking or throwing things at them? Of course it is! These children are actually duplicating the same steps used by professionals when training a dog to attack. All that frustration developed behind the fence will turn in one quick burst of energy in the form of an attack. This brings us to another point. Dogs should not be restrained on tie outs or kept near a fence line where children or adults can pass by and have the ability to tease them.

Freedom Frustration and Lack of Exercise
Many dog owners leave their dog outside for long periods of time without supervision. Often, this is the only means of exercise the dog is getting. Unfortunately, this practice is creating frustration in their dog. Many dogs will begin to bark and charge at people or dogs that are passing by as a means to overcome boredom or release excess energy or frustration. Once again, frustration creates aggression! Exercise, both mentally (in the form of obedience training) and physically, will help to lessen aggressive tendencies in dogs. Remember - a tired dog is a good dog!

Dominance
So many dog owners, members of their families, and visitors are bitten by the family dog because the dog feels that its dominant status is being threatened. It is my experience that in most households, where we deal with aggressive dogs, we are dealing with a dominant type of dog and a submissive type of owner. These dogs are fine unless they are challenged in some way. An example of being challenged is an owner or visitor trying to take away an item that the dog has in its possession. Keep in mind that a dominant dog is the Alpha of the household. All things belong to the Alpha and there are consequences for subordinates who challenge the Alpha by attempting to take something away. These consequences will take the form of a growl, bite or an attack. Remember that this behavior is very understandable to the dog. In nature, the only way for a wolf pack to survive and maintain social order is to regard one dog as the Alpha / leader. This dog makes all the decisions and takes ownership of all things. This is the dog that is most qualified for the position of leadership. In the human household, the human is most qualified for this position and therefore must never allow the dog to posses the Alpha role.

There are many signs of dominance and dominance related aggression. Some of these include: growling when moved from a favorable position, refusal to comply with the ‘down’ command, growling when the owner passes the lying dogs’ space, biting when being pet on the top of the head, growling when the owner approaches food, growling when wiping paws or petting or touching the scruff of the neck. It is my observation that many of these dogs are allowed to elevate their social status by sleeping in the owners’ bed and resting on their furniture. Many are also free feeders and have not learned self control through proper obedience training. It is important to realize that a dog needs to obey, on first command, even in the time when they would rather being chasing the squirrel, cat or even your neighbor’s child. These are real life situations with real life consequences if the dog chooses to disobey the owner.

People who own a dog that displays all or some of the above behaviors need to be looking for a qualified dog trainer immediately! This type of dog is a tragedy waiting to happen. People living with this situation are living with a walking, barking time bomb! Please don’t let your dog become a safety hazard to you and your neighborhood. Don’t be one of those people that believe nothing tragic can happen to them. It can and it will if you continue to ignore the problem!

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