What Would Jeff Do? Dog Training Tip of the Day #85

What Would Jeff Do? Dog Training Tip of the Day #85

Yes you can punish growling.

I keep hearing over and over again about this concept that if you punish growling the dog will not give a warning and then just go from silence to a bite.

I think there is a lot of variables to that statement, you have to have a better understanding about pressure on dogs and basic animal behavior to make a decision to punish or not. If you are walking with your dog down the street and a family is walking by you and pushing a stroller and your dog growls, punishing that growling is extremely fair and absolutely necessary or else it does not go away and will actually increase in frequency.

On the other hand if someone walking towards you and the dog and they are reaching their hand out and your dog growls, different story and you need to advocate for the dog and work the dog through that situation but also you the human need to push away the source of the pressure.

that is one example of many that we work with dogs through, dogs need to learn to live with pressure of all sorts in our environment if they are going to live in our world and as long as we have pet dogs that is just the way it is.

Jeff Gellman

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