reading log ch3

Chapter 3-Talking to each other

This book is very repetitive and includes some main ideas that are repeated over and over again in different words. Those main ideas are something like this; Dogs don't understand what we say, even commands are gibberish to them. They respond to the sounds we make and the actions we do when we say them.  Repeating commands is a bad thing, it's like when to ask someone to do something and they are getting their last head shot of the match or watching the last touchdown of the game. Unless your bleeding out, most likely they are going to finish that quick thing before doing what was asked of them. Dogs are the same way but with things like, sniffing or eating a treat or something like that, so repeating a command just confuses them. Making your voice louder and saying quiet don't do anything at all to a dog. All you would be doing is joining in on the barking and making things worse. To have the best results of getting your dog to do something your supposed to use a calm and higher voice than usual to make the dog feel comfortable with listening to you.