Heart-Wrenching Study Shows The Long-Term Effect Yelling Can Have on Your Dog

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There has been a noticeable increase in problematic behaviors such as stress-related fearfulness, excessive barking at unexpected things, fear biting, dog attacks on people and strange dogs, aggressive reactions in excess of any real aggressive context, all without an apparent cause. More disturbing than the “without apparent cause” is that these problems are happening in breeds usually known for docility and amiability like the wirehaired pointing griffon, German shorthair, springer spaniel, cocker spaniel, golden and Labrador retrievers. Some of the dog training positive vs negative reinforcement proposed basic causes of the problematic behavior with research to substantiate them are removal from litter too early (before ten weeks), and misguided selection of potential breeding stock where dogs are bred because of ribbons or trophies without regard for temperament faults or other genetic faults. But recent research in several European countries primarily, and to a lesser extent in North America, suggests much of the problematic behavior results from training techniques and the human relationships associated with those training techniques.

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