When youre trying to train your dog, its important to understand how your dog thinks. Dogs are pack animals, first and foremost, and thats something you need to understand to have the best possible relationship you can with your pet. If you understand this basic concept, itll be easer to train your dog.
Dogs are happy to be around humans and make excellent companions when puppies and adults. They naturally take to people and families because their instinct for packs makes it easy for them to find a place in a group. Pack animals separate their pack into levels, with the leader of the pack at the top. This leader sets the direction for the pack.
The next level is like the second in command, and each one down has less dominance in the group until you reach the bottom. When in a pack, dogs understand where each animal in the group sits on that pyramid, and they fall into those roles naturally. Because its their instinct, dogs will also naturally want to be part of a pack, or group, and thats what makes them fall so easily in a family group of people.
When you bring a puppy or even an adult dog home, it automatically views everyone in the household as part...