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Training German Shepherds to Adapt to Unfamiliar Environments

2022-02-22 / 681 Read

Adaptive training can exercise the dog's physique and courage, eliminate the dog's fear of various unfamiliar environmental conditions, and improve the dog's adaptability to ensure that its normal behavior and the owner's command are not affected.

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Environmental Exercise

The environment in which dogs live is constantly changing. Dogs must adapt to their environment through behavior. However, dogs can adjust their behavior only by first sensing the state of the surrounding environment. The behavior of dogs is the complex result of the interaction between the dog and the environment, and is the comprehensive function of the dog's body. Any behavior always occurs in a certain natural environment. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the environmental exercise of dogs.

1. Training methods

The owner should intentionally bring the dog to an environment unfamiliar to the dog for exercise, so as to eliminate the dog's seeking reflex and improve the dog's adaptability. In the environmental exercise, in addition to taking the dog to an unfamiliar environment, the dog should also be taken to a place where there are vehicles, pedestrians, livestock, poultry, etc., and the leash should be extended to allow it to move freely. If the dog is afraid, the owner should give comfort and encouragement in time; if the dog is afraid of an unfamiliar environment or bites an object, he should immediately use a threatening tone to issue a NO password. mechanical stimulation. When the dog stops bad behavior, use the good password to reward. Such training makes the dog neither afraid nor actively attack the novel stimuli of the unfamiliar environment, thus developing a good adaptability.

2. Pay attention

(1) The use of coercive means in training can easily make dogs inhibit the unfamiliar environment and novel stimuli, and the owner should master the stimulus intensity.

(2) Environmental exercise should follow the principle of changing from simple to complex and step-by-step, and combine more induction, less coercion, more reinforcement, and less prohibition for ability training.