I have written a couple of times that Ella has a very high energy. Today I'm going to embark on to describe what it actually means in practice, and how the heck to behave in order to cope with the energy of everyday life. It is not the easiest of all times, but want the everyday functioning is not much choice.
Ella is like saying was bred by the Armed Forces dog breeding station. That means she was conceived to work. It also means that she has some characteristics that in any case I feel can be difficult for an individual to manage and keep track of – mainly because as a private person, it is extremely difficult to satisfy this need to work.
If you think that a dog trained to work in defense, in the police, together with guards or the like – then the dog busy for a number of (Quite many) hours per day. A private person who takes over the armed forces bred dog does not have the time or the ability to enable their dog. This means that there will be a lot of untapped energy that accumulates in the dog, both in body and in the head of the.
Where does the dog of this energy if it does not have an outlet to do that it was conceived to?
Already, dog is skitdryg. It will be nervy and stissig, takes on its own little mission that it thinks it needs to do, it can be crappy little more than to walk with, chew stuff at home – and so on ad infinitum.
How do you handle all this excess energy that needs to have somewhere to go?
Structure. Leadership. Demands and expectations for behavior.
Me and Ella is proof that it works just fine to have a defense force bred dogs as pets – if you are prepared to put down the work necessary for the dog to be able to function socially outside the home. I have managed to 100%? Well, it is enough to debate.
By and large, the whole is Ella a fantastic dog, but her extreme energy takes on, among other things expressed by that she gets so fucking hysterical overjoyed when we meet people there that she knows.
If you do not Ella knows and knows where she comes from, it can be easy to perceive her as uncontrollable and very uncouth.
There are certainly as many ways to handle this on, that there are people who have this type of dogs. For me the most important thing – and for that matter, also what I am most interested in, been right leadership. Over the years, probably my leadership changed, and some things I have a deeper understanding of how it works nowadays.
One thing I have learned is to dare to be me. It will namely be that Ella is a dog that takes itself ad absurdum. And it may well be charming – to a certain limit. But I must be the one that sets the framework for our relationship and the way we relate to the world. If I give that power to spare, I have a very short time a completely unruly dog.
The method I as far as possible, use about is communicating with Ella in a way that Ella understand. For me, it is indeed important to meet halfway. Many people say that dogs can learn to understand this and so many words, and it is surely true. But why the dog must learn it, when I might as well learn to communicate in the most dog-like as possible?
Another strategy I use is to direct my energy. This is, my knowledge, something that can not be addressed particularly in canine courses, of dog trainers more multiple, but such as is used by a very few people who work primarily with problem dogs. Giving conscious form and direction of their own energy makes it easier for the dog to learn from me, and I will then be easier to understand from the dog's perspective.
One of the points with precisely this is what I think many people miss is that there is a huge difference in training their dog and getting your dog to work. A dog can learn how many commands at any time, but it does not mean that it is automatically balanced and happy for the sake of it.
And that is the – a balanced dog, that is my main goal to even have a dog in my life.