Owner attitudes and dog behaviour

Hi all,

My name is Vanessa Rohlf and I work in the Department of Psychology, Monash University. We are currently conducting a study investigating how owner attitudes affect their dog's behaviour.

This is the first type of research of its kind and we need your help!!! All you have to do is click on this link and fill out a questionnaire.

http://www.med.monash.edu.au/psych/ques ... e/arg-prj/

Thanking you all in advance. I would also love to hear any comments you may have on this interesting topic.

 

Well I did it. Boy was that long. Hope it helps.

 

Yeah, I didn't expect it to take that long...

 

me either! Sheesh. A lot of redundancy I thought....

 

I was thinkink I wish theyd as about what I do, because I answered in a perfect world, I answered them right, but when ti got ot how do you treat your own animal. like would you train your dog not to jump on people, of coarse! Does he jump on people YES, so I failed at that one

honeybear

 

lol i failed the jumping part and barking part i dont like him to bark for no reason but does he YES he yells at me all the time when he wants to play

 

I did the questionaire early this morning over coffee. I was pretty much neutral on a lot of it. The one thing I was sure on was that I didn't scream, yell, or physically (hit) to correct my dog. Also. I kiss my dog, if that means anything. :lol:

Ness, come back and give us the results of your questionaire when you have them. I believe that people's attitude has a lot to do with animal behavior. Some people feel that bad behavior is predisposed and already "programed" in certain types of dogs.

I would really like to know if it's my attitude that makes it so hard to train my one dog not to jump on people and to train my other dog not to bark at other dogs.

 

Reply to questionnaire comments

Thanks so much for your participation and comments. The reason why you may find the questionnaire long and repetative is because we are using a particular theory (Theory of Planned Behaviour) to explain possible relationships between attitudes and behaviour. The questions you may find repetative are actually measuring different aspects of the behaviour or attitude and are all equally important.

Furthermore, this questionnaire is not intended to determine what is 'right' or 'wrong' and there is no pass or fail. We just want to look at relationships and trends between attitudes and behaviour.

We will be posting the results on the internet site. The name of our research group is the Anthrozoology Research Group and the web address is:

http://www.med.monash.edu.au/psych/research/carg/

Cheers and thanks again.

 

I think attitude makes a huge difference. If you give your dog a command and you fully expect him to do it and maybe even form a picture in your mind of him doing it correctly, you have a better chance of actually getting the behavior you want. If you give him a command and think, "No way in heck this dog is going to listen" - he probably won't!

I've found it's the same with riding. You have to expect that the horse will follow your directions, and if you can convey this confidence through your body the horse will respond much better. I am generally still nervous and unsure around horses since I have not been riding long and I know how much I don't know. But I was picking my (school) horse's feet the other day and she started to lean on me. At first I was scared and dropped her hoof, but my trainer told me they do that all the time. So I picked up her foot again and when she started to lean on me, without even thinking I treated her like I would have treated Nala if she was doing something silly - I made my mother's "uh-uh-uh" noise and told her "No!" firmly and she stopped - probably because she sensed that I meant business.

 

as for kissing your dog, was there an other?? It asked do you kiss your dog once a day, I kiss mine like 20 times day,

Luv da pits, see Dukdads posts on the dog whisperer, about being dominant and having training problems, would that help you??

honeybear

 

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Boy I did you guy's man that was long!!! Hi ya all I know I haven't been around! I'am Back!! I'am O.k :? :? :? Aussylover. Boy I hope I didn't fail that thing!!!