Canine Reporter What is so hard about understanding dog behavior? All my dog friends have noses that can smell anything from drugs to diseases to body rescues.
If you want us dogs to do something and we become stubborn and indifferent...
don't panic and become agitated.
Use our noses to help you to understand dog behavior.
Try some of the following tips: Medications.
I don't like the idea of taking drugs that don't smell natural.
Robert, my owner, uses my nose to seduce me to take any meds I wouldn't ordinarily take in a pill form.
He grinds up the meds and mixes them into my chow.
Another trick he uses is to take the pill and stuff it into some cheese, liverwurst, or ham.
Yummy.
However, there are big gelatin pills that you can't crush into our chow.
They must be swallowed whole and that I don't like.
Robert tries to stuff them down my throat but I just spit it out.
He gets very agitated.
Now, he lets me sniff the pill with some butter on it and I can't wait to swallow it.
Cool.
Discipline I don't always come when I am called...
I'm like a little kid.
However, I have a big advantage over a kid.
A kid won't always come for an oatmeal cookie, but I will.
I can smell it from 10 feet away.
I can smell it if it's in your purse or pocket or kitchen table.
I will also roll over, fetch, sit, sing, retrieve, and shake hands because I can smell or know a treat is coming.
But don't tease me and not give me a treat when I perform because your credibility suffers.
BE CONSISTENT and reward me after every command and you will begin to understand dog behavior by using our noses.