Study: Negative Dog Training Methods Can Cause Long-Term Harm

A Study: Negative Dog new study suggests training methods based on punishments can cause long-term animal. Much in past has training methods in general, or pulling force it do or using special collars put pressure on Reward-based methods involve giving food.

Your dog may be the apple of your eye, but let's be honest: she is an animal, with her own instincts and idiosyncrasies, and there are going to be times when she makes you want to tear your hair out. However much you want to, however, new research suggests that you should never yell at or otherwise punish a mischievous mutt. According to a new study uploaded to pre-print server bioRxiv, aversive training such as positive punishment and negative where are dog training schools reinforcement can have long-term negative effects on your dog's mental state. "Our results show that companion dogs trained using aversive-based methods experienced poorer welfare as compared to companion dogs trained using reward-based methods, at both the short- and the long-term level," the researchers write in their paper. "Specifically, dogs attending schools using aversive-based methods displayed more stress-related behaviours and body postures during training, higher elevations in cortisol levels after training, and were more 'pessimistic' in a cognitive bias task.

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