Are dogs more talented than us?
Moms dogs do not need pedagogy classes to educate
their puppies. I watched them for dozens of hours. They modified
their educational techniques according to the age of their puppies. They
teach them essential behaviors: control their movements,
adapt the intensity of their bite to the circumstances, adopt the posture
of submission in the presence of adults and dominant dogs, eating
after the dogs rank higher than them in the pack, synchronize
their behaviors with those of the group, etc.
To educate puppies, mother and adult dogs educators use
proven techniques: encouragement, rewards,
corrections, distractions and a few punishments.
But of course, the dog educator has facilities. It uses
communication signals that puppies understand easily: licks,
barking, grunting, facial mimicry and postures
body. There are even signals made up of odors called "pheromones
That we do not perceive. These smells are very significant for
the puppy: some are soothing and help to structure the attachment
to the mom, to recognize her among all the bitches, and others inform her
social status in the hierarchy.
Montage My well-behaved dog
12 My dog is well raised
In front of these subtleties of the language of the dog, we, the humans, have a
handicap certain. Our mimicry is poor, our language is articulated
and complex (even incomprehensible), and we are easily
irritable.
Is the dog comparable to the child?
The dog we are going to educate is a bit like a two year old
in a world of adults speaking a foreign language. Imagine, for example,
that you just adopted a Chinese girl. You want to teach him
basic things like eating with a fork, etc. But you do not
do not speak a word of Chinese. How are you going to do it? Are you going
1. Give him a long speech in French explaining to him the advantages of to feed with a fork?
2. Tell her "very well" when she spontaneously picks up the fork to to bite into a food?
3. Take his little hand in yours, insert the fork and make the move to bite a food and put it in his mouth?
4. Show her how you are doing and hope, that over time, she will imitate?
5. Repeat the word "fork" when she looks at or picks up the fork, and the word "eat" when she puts food in her mouth?
6. Tell her "no" when she eats with her hands?
7. Shout and clap her hands when she eats with her hands?
8. Shake her by the neck skin as long as she is not eating properly with a fork?
9. Put on a collar and a leash, and pull on the leash when it is not not behave as you wish?
10. Learn to speak fluently Chinese to explain how you want her to eat with a fork?
11. Learn some Chinese words and show him, by example, how do, then guide his behavior?
12. Place food in a narrow container so that it can not slide hand and let her fast until she understands that she has to use an object (the fork) to access food and feed? Some of these techniques are barbaric, violent and unacceptable to educate a child, yet they have been used for a long time to educate the dogs. Some give fast results, others later results. Some allow to value the child, others engender in him the fear of the educator.
What is pedagogy in dog education?
Pedagogy is the skill to teach. Educate a child
two years, foreign language and culture, requires educational tools
different from those used to teach students at the university.
Educating a dog also requires special pedagogy.
You should :
- really want to learn something specific from a dog and decide to take the time to do it;
- learn some rudiments of the dog's language, that is to say at less an idea of how he communicates and his skills intellectuals;
- use simple words, always the same, and repeat them until that the dog has associated them with particular behaviors;
- respect the dog's age and level of intelligence and not ask him things too complicated for his level of ability;
- to study basic techniques for effective and free education stories.
In short, it is you who will make the greatest efforts. It's good
for this reason that this guide is not written for dogs, but for
educators!
To start directly learning your puppy or your
adult dog, let him learn to sit on demand.
