Dog training key: figuring out the dog's behavioral motivation is the key

When your dog snatches your wallet and runs off joyfully, your first reaction is definitely to chase it, and in this way, the dog has successfully forced you to play with it. What it wants is not the wallet, but your attention.

Understanding behavioral motivation is the trick to correcting it. If you do not arrange enough things for your dog to keep it busy, then it will develop its own entertainment activities, even though this type of activity seems very boring to you.

Dogs are companion animals and want to be by their owner's side. Any dog left alone for a long time may develop some undesirable behaviors. Those dogs that usually seem less affectionate toward people and more reserved with their feelings are independent by nature and tend to be calmer when left alone. And those "little clingers" that act especially attached when their owner is at home are also more prone to anxiety when left alone, so the wrong behaviors often become their way of expressing this anxiety. Busy office workers have no choice but to leave their dogs at home alone for long periods, and more and more people are considering hiring a helper to come to the home to do housework and also keep the dog company.