Discipline Your Dog Instead Of Punishing Him
Too often, dogs do not know why they are receiving punishment or which behavior created the punishment. Dog owners attribute unrealistic reasoning abilities extreme beyond the animal’s mental capability. The owner may believe the dog knew what he was doing wrong since he had the “guilty” look on his face when the owner yelled, “WHAT IS THIS ON THE FLOOR!” while pointing to a mess. The idea that the dog knew better incites the owner to brutally punish him in spite of the fact that the demolition occurred several hours before the owner got home. The dog connects the punishment with the owner coming home, not with the misconduct that took place some hours ago. The next day, the owner is ready to find a mess, and the first thing he or she does upon arriving home is investigate the house for evidence of dog damage.
The posture of an owner searching for a pile of unmentionables is not at all gracious and loving. The owner’s hunched over shoulders and wiggling nose, searching for a mess, make the individual look mean and distorted. The verbal greeting may go something like, “So what did you destroy today?” The “guilty” look is the dog’s response to the owner’s strange behavior.
The dog is remembering previous bizarre punishment. In his mind, greeting the owner at the door will consequence to punishment. The dog forgot about the mess that he made hours ago. Punishing your pet long after the fault has been committed, rather than during or instantly after the act, has no reason other than to puzzle or make the dog afraid. Many owners report that they do not even suspect a difficulty when they walk in the door, and yet the dog still looks guilty. Perhaps there have been enough messes for the dog to comprehend that a mess on the floor is a good sign that a correction is approaching when the owner gets home. Nevertheless, the dog simply does not have the capacity to connect that refraining from chewing at noon will stop a punishment at 5:30 pm.
There is no evidence to advise that dogs intentionally misbehave to make their owners angry. Dogs misbehave since they were not taught appropriate behavior, or they are bored, irritated, and anxious, to name a few reasons. Dogs chew, bark, etc., to gratify their instant needs and emotions, not to spite their owners. Dogs want to delight their owners and not spite them.
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