Dog Training Undesireable Habits

Articles and information on training your dog  to not have undesireable habits.

Dog Training Undesirable Habits

"Dogs is bad Gardeners" as my old gardener used to say; and certainly their usual habit of running over beds, and perhaps digging holes to pass the time, is not conducive to a satisfactory show of flowers. I therefore always train my dogs to stay on the lawn, when told to do so, for unlimited periods and any inclination to wander off it is sternly repressed.

This restriction sound difficult to teach, but actually it is a habit which can be easily instilled in the mincl of ar average sensible dog. Let the animal follow you as you walk round the lawn, but immediately you leave the latter, give the command " stay or lawn" and check the dog from coming any further; repeat this as often as possible walking off the lawn at different places each time anc then try leaving the dog while you go out of sight; but go to a place where you can watch the animal, and immediately any attempt is made by the dog to leave the lawn, rate the offender, saying " stay on lawn " in a stem voice, and make your return and stay there.

There is a great advantage in thus training your dogs to limit their wanderings when sc commanded; for not only do you prevent then running over the beds, but you can leave then out in the sun, without supervision, on a dry day; you also enable them to exercise themselves to a moderate extent and yet be under restrain! although you are engaged in some other occupation during the period thus you may work in the garden or write in the house (with an occasional eye on a pupil who is not quite dependable whilst the dogs are leading a free, happy life with opportunities for mischief restricted but don't give your dog a bone, or other food, to eat on the lawn, as it may attempt to convert your lawn into a golf course by digging " bunkers " in which the remains of the bone may be decently interred!

While on the subject of dogs in a garden, you should realize the importance of preventing your animals from wandering over and contaminating the vegetables for, apart from natural aversion to such contamination, there is a serious possibility of actual illness developing through eating uncooked vegetables which have been defiled by a dog.

And even more serious human illness may be caused by a dog which is treated too familiarly by an owner; thus, kissing a dog, or allowing the animal to sleep on the owner's bed, may result in the person developing a serious internal complaint as, however cleanly you may feed and keep a dog, there is always a possibility of the animal being infected with worms which emerge at nights to lay their eggs on the dog's coat, and if you should by chance swallow one of these eggs, a cyst on the liver is a possible consequence.

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