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    Understanding Your Puppy'S Limitations (Part 1)

    To get your dog training on the right track, go slow with your puppy; allow him his puppy hood without rushing him through his training. Develop his prey instinct instead of repressing it so that you maximize its flexibility. With the flow of drive cooled by the prey instinct, limits that normally make dogs nervous can instead be converted into positive stimuli to work. On the other hand, if the prey instinct is violated, the puppy is filled with dread and a sense of alienation, giving a host of undesirable behaviors in his temperament.

    The limit is inside the dog. You just need to let the prey instinct tiptoe up to the danger line, and then get in tune with whatever is in the dog's heart so that you can smoothly redirect his attention your way. It could be something as gentle as a warm touch, or as active as a good game of ball.

    You need to let your puppy be a puppy, but that doesn't mean that you are going to let him explore his limits on his own. If you take an overbearing approach to a puppy, you can violate his emotional limits. You have to decisively define the limits according to your standards, or the temperament will assign them according to instinctive standards.

    A dog raised in a permissive household feels that danger is everywhere. You must be active in this regard so that learning isn't left to chance. The puppy must be carefully managed or indiscriminate emotional bruising will be the result. By encouraging the prey instinct under controlled circumstances, a limit can be assigned to your liking. Then, once the bounds are carefully secured, the pup is free not only to make prey within them but to be in harmony with his family as well.

    The most obvious limitation in puppies is their short attention span. When confronted with resistance, he is unable to blend two different emotional values (strengths of attraction) together to come up with one focused response.

    The simple prey instinct follows a simple rhythm in a natural way. Anything that is more complex, which is pretty much all of our training and domestic requirements will cause the dog to divert his attention so that he doesn't have a negative experience. Not until he sexually matures and can process stress into social behaviors will he be able to handle such a complex undertaking.

    Therefore, it is important to recognize this limitation and not become upset with a puppy if he gives out when faced with a simple objective. The next time, make the problem easier. Problems in this regard reflect errors by the trainer, not learning deficiencies in the puppy.

    Attention spans lengthen as instincts are strengthened through the flow of drive. Getting a puppy to perform a task is not as important as "hardening" his focus on a positive stimulation so that he learns to persevere. Success for the dog must be focused on gaining instinctive gratification rather than on avoiding a correction.

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