Meet My Gang! | (Just Click Anyplace to Switch to Another Beagle Page) |
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This is a collage of our four beagles. By clicking on the various sections you will be taken to another beagle page to read more about each one of our family pets. What strikes me the most about beagles is the fact that each one has his or her own personality. That personality trait seems to follow them for their entire adult life. What also strikes me is that when in a group or pact they all seem to get along. For the most part, this is done by natural selection of a pact leader and by knowing the boundaries of the other animal. Our job as owners and trainers is to instill the idea that we are the leader of the pact.
Training our animal friends is all about gaining their respect in a hierarchy. Yet all too often, we make the mistake of treating them in the same way and manner as we would our chilren. We erroneously seek to make them more human like us, when the truth of the matter is just the opposite. It is important that we learn their pictographic language. For example: We think that by offering a bisquit or treat after sitting or begging that our pet repeats the act of sitting because he has been trained to carry out our wishes or commands. But have you evern noticed how your pet will sit pretty before you ever get the bisquit. Well, that is because he is in the process of training you to comply with his needs and wants---and not the other way around.
We use simple and consistent commands and are mindful of our tone of voice. And although it might be important to us that we love and care for our family pet as we would our own child, in the animal kingdom gaining respect is paramont to love.This is important if we want our commands obeyed when no treat is offered. The reward for carrying out a command or for good behavior is not always going to be food but the bond created between you and your pet. By forming that bond of trust, your pet beagle will work just as hard for your pat on the head as they will for a bisquit
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