“You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”, or so the saying goes. When it comes to correcting negative and problematic behaviours with dog training, it’s very easy for an owner to consider their dog a little too long in the tooth to turn over a new leaf when trained, but that isn’t really the case at all. Make no mistake, dogs are very much like humans, and of course the younger the dog, the more impressionable he or she is.
Training a younger dog is much easier than training an older one that may be set in his or her ways. However - letting a dog get away with problematic behaviours, no matter the age, is entirely unacceptable. Older dogs can be trained, and should never be considered untrainable.
An owner resigning themselves to put up with poor behaviour based upon a dog’s age is just wrong – and often stems from laziness from the dog trainer’s part and a lack of understanding on the owners’ part. There are very many dog training providers throughout the UK, but it pays to go to one that will train older dogs – as after all, there’s no button on a dog which reverses time and lets you give another method a try.
Any good dog trainer or dog training school within the UK will have a psychological approach to dog training, and they will be able to get inside your dog’s head in order to provide solid reasons of which a dog behaves the way he or she does. Only with the reasoning a dog trainer can provide comes the understanding of a dog’s behaviour, and what follows is the ability to make proper change.
Without the reasoning and the understanding a dog training school can provide, change is absolutely impossible, and you’re at square one – reduced to yelling at your dog, getting frustrated, and wishing that you’d never have purchased him or her in the first place. Choose dog training which is centered towards you as an owner as well as covering the training and the psychology of your dog, and you’ll not go far wrong.
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