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As soon as people see a dog in distress, they try to comfort him by petting him and giving him food. This is human psychology, not animal psychology. When comforting the dog in a wrong situation you will feed the behavior and the dog becomes imbalanced.
Let’s say you have a dog that is skittish. To help to calm him down, you give him a treat. Looks like a harmless thing to do, right? The reality is that you may have distracted him from his anxiety for a moment with the treat, but you have also reinforced his anxious behavior and increased the likelihood of its reoccurrence.
You can become your dog’s pack leader by acting like an animal pack leader would. You have to put a 100% into the leadership role. The pack leader tells the pack, through his calm, assertive energy, what to do and where to go. He doesn’t ask the pack if they are OK with his decisions. This is how dogs behave and communicate and create pattern behavior.
How can you tell if your dog is the pack leader? It’s simple: If he jumps on you when you arrive home, he’s the pack leader. If you open a door and he goes in front of you, he’s the pack leader. If he barks and then you feed him, he’s the pack leader. Whenever he makes you do something he is the pack leader.
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