. The dog in health and in disease [microform] : including his origin, history, varieties, breeding, education and general management in health, and his treatment in disease. Dogs; Dogs; Chiens; Chiens. 169 THE DOO IN environment. Wo can niako that environment pretty , mnch what wo will; and with the do^, his maHtor from tho lirst, und alwayn, iH tho princi])al facitor. Two extreme views have for a h»:ig jwrio*! Imen enter- tained in regard to tho training of tiio g: the one that ho is a wiki, Maj^ward creature to 1m3 "broken," the other tliat he needs no Hjiccial correction
. The dog in health and in disease [microform] : including his origin, history, varieties, breeding, education and general management in health, and his treatment in disease. Dogs; Dogs; Chiens; Chiens. 169 THE DOO IN environment. Wo can niako that environment pretty , mnch what wo will; and with the do^, his maHtor from tho lirst, und alwayn, iH tho princi])al facitor. Two extreme views have for a h»:ig jwrio*! Imen enter- tained in regard to tho training of tiio g: the one that ho is a wiki, Maj^ward creature to 1m3 "broken," the other tliat he needs no Hjiccial correction if properly taught from the first. Neither is quite correct. A puppy full of life tends to do exactly as his im- pulses urge him, till tho highest motive power, a desire to please his master, is substituted. It follows that a puppy can not Ims too soon led to understand that he has a master—kind, honest, intelligent, and finn. He must be consirttent M'ith his pujipy. All caprice is fatal; it utterly confuses and demoralizes the dog. Remembering, as we indicated long b«^o, that the dog is very like ourselves, we can suggest a few principles for training that wo think will meet the test of experi- ence. The puppy at one period is like a young infant, later like a two-year-old child, and at the best most dogs never get beyond the intelligence of a young child in most respects, though in some qualities tlie wisest man is far behind the dog. For practical purposes the puppy may be treated as an infant, but as a rapidly developing one. He gets his in- formation through his senses, and his training must be related to this, and to the fact that he is a creature with strong impulses but of little self-control. It is a well-established law of the nervous system, that what has happened once is likely to occur again under the same circumstances; hence in the training of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for read
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