The most important message for building good habits in your dog

When we talk about dog psychology and the way dogs experience the world around us, we cannot avoid mentioning the basic fact that dogs are creatures of habit. Many dog lovers completely forget this most important fact, attach all sorts of labels to their dog and thereby equate it with a human being.

Unfortunately, this is exactly where, at the earliest age of a dog, the problems in communication between the dog and its owner begin.
By giving it every freedom and demanding nothing in return, believing that the dog will respect them for it and therefore obey them, owners open the door to wilfulness, which, depending on the dog's character, can cause many problems in communication.

This time we bring you what is perhaps the most important message, one that is essential for the process of building good habits in a dog, and it reads:

ACT PREVENTIVELY AND NEVER ALLOW YOUR DOG TO DO WHAT YOU DO NOT WANT IT TO DO

Only by acting preventively in the communication between human and dog can we achieve results. Every kind of freedom a dog has when it does something it should not is a direct result of the fact that its owner allowed it.

Do not elevate your dog to such heights by equating its intelligence with a human's, because after all, and always, it is only an animal driven by instincts: survival, hunting, prey, guarding, mating, play and the like.
If you give your dog the freedom to do things that are, from its perspective, allowed, it will form exactly that kind of habit. Give it 1% freedom and it will use it. Give it 100% freedom without asking anything of it, and it will use that too, every single percent.

That is why, no matter how much each of us loves our dog and wants to give it the best life and an even better life together, with mutual trust and friendship, the only way to succeed is the path on which you must present yourself to the dog as its leader. You to the dog, not the dog to you!