Is this dog just sitting there calmly listening to his owner letting it blow over his head, tuning him out? If you said YES, you are wrong. The dog is sitting there trying to figure out what this man is saying. Our friend with the glasses is clearly in a reactive state pointing fingers, yelling, bending over/leaning forward, big energy. So, why are we yelling at dogs? You know when you speak to someone who speaks a foreign language, you speak louder to them? They aren’t deaf and neither are dogs yet we tend to enunciate our words and speak much louder than when we speak to someone who speaks our native language.īest to learn how to speak dog. It’s very interesting to listen to how many people talk to their dogs, as if they are deaf, when the reality is, that a dogs hearing is over 100,000 times greater than humans. Your dog is responding to your body language first, secondarily, to the words coming out of your mouth. If you aren’t aware of your own body language and energy around dogs you will have very little idea what kind of teaching your dog needs. This is the tip of the iceberg in training. A wonderful surprise may be that your dog pays closer attention because she’ll have to rely on your body language (her first language), or listen much more closely, because you are literally whispering as softly as you can. You’ll find out how much you chatter to your dog, meaningless words and wonder why she tunes you out. Whisper or talk using only your body language and see what happens. Read on, because this is not about Millan…phew, but is about literally, whispering to your dog. Depending on which side of the fence you’re on, you may either have your hackles up, right now, after reading the title or you’re thrilled to think I’m going to write about Cesar Millan.
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