You are feeling on top of the world. You have a beautiful family, wonderful career, picture perfect house, and you even have a dog.
You wake up bright and early but you have a big smile on your face. You have an entire hour of peace and quite all to yourself to wake up and get ready for work before you have to get the kids up. You start a fresh pot of coffee quietly singing towards yourself. The wonderful smell of coffee is starting to waft around the house and you can not help but to think to yourself how incredibly lucky you are.
Out of the corner of your eye you spot your neighbor taking their little dog out for a morning stroll. You get to thinking that maybe you should take your dog out also to get some fresh air and a bit of exercise. Just then, as if on Que, your dog springs into action and flies over to the window. The hair on his back looks like a porcupines and he lets out a low warning growl. You only have a second to respond before he really lets loose with the barking and you know he is going to wake up the whole house.
As your trying desperately to quite him the baby starts wailing, and the kids are groggily coming out of their bedrooms. In exasperation you look on at your kids because you know that within five minutes your house will be in full swing and you have not even had your first cup of coffee, let alone read the paper or gotten ready for work. Your beautifully peaceful morning has just flown out the window.
That\’s it you think. That dog needs dog training, barking at all hours of the day has got to go.
The need to get your dog trained has stayed in the back of your mind all day long. Your feeling a bit frazzled but you go about your work as normal. You pick your children up after work just in the nick of time for them to start getting over tired. Who can blame them, they got woke up extra early today. You get home and file them all in the house.
As you step through the door yourself your dog comes flying at you because he missed you so much. You nearly escape hitting the ground with your dog on top of you. You have a new demand to add to your dog training, jumping has to go as well. As you get your dog off and look over you see it… there is a huge hole directly in the middle of the rooms carpet.
You look at your dog with daggers in your eyes and notice your kids are forming a circle around your dog. They are all giving you that pleading look because they don\’t want you angry at their dog. After all, the dog did not mean to do it and he is really very sorry.
All you can think is that dog is a nuisance but there is nothing you can do. The children are head over heals in love with their dog and in truth, so are you. Regardless, you have to stop your dog digging holes especially in the middle the living room floor. That is when dog obedience training comes into play. The best way to get your dog to behave is to train him to do so.
If you find yourself asking\”Is my dog aggressive\” then it is time to consider dog training. Dealing with an aggressive dog