Bad dog? Think twice before yelling, experts say

Few things are more adorable—or a new puppy. they pee on rugs, get aggressive with other a novel study suggests that use even relatively punishments like yelling stress out,” Marc Bekoff, punishment-based training have negative effects. those studies tend to on police laboratory instead of family pets, have Bad dog? Think been banned in countries.

The use of even mild punishments in training can make dogs more stressed and more pessimistic compared to dogs who are trained with positive reinforcement-based methods. That’s an important conclusion of a study by Ana Catarina Vieira de Castro of Porto, Portugal and her colleagues. They recently published Does training method matter? Evidence for the negative impact of aversive-based methods on companion dog welfare. The importance of this study is that it addresses a common question: If dogs can learn from both positive a dog training leash training methods and from those that use punishment, does the choice of method matter? The recent research offers a compelling answer to this question because the effects of training methods extend far beyond the actual skills learned. To compare the effects on dogs trained with different techniques, researchers recruited 92 dogs—42 dogs from three training centers that used play and treats to encourage desirable behavior and 50 dogs from four training centers that trained by yelling, leash jerks and forcing dogs into positions such as sitting.

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