Training Pet: How to understand your pet and its behavior?

By Joe-Willson on 2010-11-11 21:22:51

Training pet: Understand your pet first

Training pet can be easy if you understand your pet and he or she understands you. Training pet requires a lot of patience and hard work just like bringing up a child. Like human beings a pet too needs to be taught the difference between good and bad. In today's materialistic world it can be said that pets are the only ones who can give you unconditional love and undivided attention.

Different animals have different behaviors which mainly depend on their survival strategies. They are naturally born with those behaviors through which they can find food, protect themselves from predators, reproduce and intermingle with animals of the same species.

For example when a flamingo stands with one leg and the other leg folded near its body so as to control and preserve its body heat which will escape if that leg is uncovered. Before beginning training pet sessions one should be aware of the fact that your pet will only be able to do those things which it is physically capable of doing.

Operant conditioning: How effective is it?

The primary and most effective way of training pet is called operant conditioning. In this method of training pet the animal learns to repeat a performance if it gets a desired result and will stop if it gets an adverse reaction.

For example if a dog finds a bone in a place today it will surely come in search for it again the next day at the same time and same place. This is also a way that sometimes a stray animal becomes our pet if you start feeding it one day then it will keep coming to you for more until and unless you stop the ritual of feeding it.

Animals can efficiently adapt themselves to the changing environment. While training pet, a professional trainer might change the environment to get the required changes in the animal's behavior.

It has also been observed that while training pet if you keep an experienced pet near the new pet then it will most likely copy most of the behaviors of the older one. This is so because pets love to imitate the other members of its group. To know more about this, click here!

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