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Golden Retriever
Training dogs not to eat street food
[Why train your dog not to eat] >
Dogs are simple-minded. They will never understand or believe that someone would intentionally feed them a poisonous food. Appetite is a strong instinctive desire in dogs. Pet dogs also need to learn to refuse food. Good dogs do not eat street food. Therefore, refusal to eat training is difficult it may not happen overnight. It requires the owner’s patience to accomplish it.
Food refusal training can be divided into two parts:>
One is that the dog is not allowed to pick up anything to eat anywhere.
The second is that the dog is not allowed to eat food fed by strangers.
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Dogs are very active and curious. When they are out walking their dogs, they are always curious to smell the ground. When they come across a tasty treat, they don’t eat white food. This is common among pet dogs. As a result, it is not uncommon to hear of dogs eating food and dying on the road. It is necessary to train dogs not to eat indiscriminately.
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Cocker Spaniel
Training dogs not to eat street food
[Stop dog from picking up food anywhere training]
Picking up food that is scattered on the street is very dangerous. First, even clean, non-toxic food dropped on the street can become dirty and full of bacteria and viruses. In addition, much of the food has deteriorated and the dog can get sick. This is still true of non-toxic foods, not to mention those that are poisonous. Rat-killing bait scattered on the street and harmful dog poisoning food thrown by bad people are serious killers of dogs’ lives.
Training method: Say “No” to fetching behavior
When walking with a dog, if you find the dog trying to pick up food, the owner should immediately and sternly criticize the dog by saying No. You can also stop the dog in time by tapping the dog’s mouth with your finger. If the dog can ignore the food, the owner should promptly encourage the dog, praise it in a gentle tone, and pet it affectionately.
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When the dog picks up the food, the owner should stop promptly. The tone of criticism should be short and strong; nagging criticism can give the dog the false impression that you are encouraging him. Pulling the dog should be noted because dogs with strong appetite reflexes can push a little harder, in addition, praising the dog must be timely.
Also, food refusal training should start in the usual way. When owners feed their dogs food, don’t let them eat food off the floor and don’t get into the habit of picking up food from the floor.
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Chihuahua
Training dogs not to eat street food
[Sugar-coated training method]
To ensure undisturbed training, first choose a venue with few pedestrians and few distractions. The dog owner should ask a friend to put some meat soaked in chili oil or sandwiched with chili on the ground. The owner walks by with the dog and the dog eats the chili meat which will be very spicy so that the dog will have a memory of it, no matter how greedy it is.
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Dip the broth into the chili meat pieces to mask the smell of the chili, otherwise the dog won’t be fooled by the smell of the chili. Refuse gifts from strangers. It is common for people to enjoy seeing a lively and cute dog and feed it some snacks in passing, but it is necessary for the health and safety of the dog to refuse food from strangers.
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Butterfly Dogs
Training dogs not to eat street food
[Advanced food refusal training]
The owner first invites a friend to help feed the dog food. When the dog tries to eat, the owner stops the dog with the above method and promptly encourages the dog to stop eating.
If the dog can refuse to eat a stranger’s food in the owner’s presence, then further refusal training can follow. The owner hides so that the dog cannot see him or herself while tying the dog on a long leash, and then asks a friend to feed the dog. If the dog tries to eat, the owner will yell No and cannot pull hard on the leash at the same time to stop the dog.
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Food refusal training without the owner present is trained 2-3 times in a row at a time. If the dog does not eat, the stranger should leave immediately. The owner comes out of hiding to praise the dog. The owner can choose more friends to help with the training. If he always lets one friend help, the dog will think that person’s food cannot be eaten, so he cannot refuse food.
Refusing to eat is a difficult training exercise that takes a long time to reinforce the results. Also, the effectiveness of refusing to eat training is closely related to the quality of the dog. For some dogs with strong appetite reflexes, refusing to eat usually takes longer and requires more effort from the owner, but they still need to keep training for the sake of the dog’s health. Photo Gallery>
