Communicating with your poodle
5 ways to communicate
Poodle communicate is 5 ways it important to understand and use all five ways. We are talking about Poodles but this can be applied to any breed of dogs.
Dogs read us as much as we read them. poodles are quite capable of interpreting the nature of what we are trying to say through our tone of voice and/or the volume with which we speak as well as the inflection in our words. Poodle's long history as a house dog and companion makes them especially attuned to these voice nuances. Dogs understand whether you are speaking to them in a happy, sad, or angry manner along with being able to pick up the subtleties of how we are saying our words. Poodles along with most dogs can learn hundreds of words and pick them out of sentences. They can understand anything you have told them, particularly when you are scolding them. They appear to be totally crushed, but on the other hand it is amazing how dramatic they are when you are scolding them. I believe that some poodles overreact to tone or volume of voice and disconnect with what the scolding was about. Poodles will hear and understand what you are saying far more quickly if you use positive rewards based training and more praise be fore treats.
Remember, the way in which dogs communicate with each other is through body language. It is important to understand and believe that some dogs are very visual learners. What that means to you is that you may find that when you are training your puppy or adults, they will excel at learning hand signals. You will be able to link a hand signal with a behavior quite easily. There are advantage of teaching your poodle basic commands using hand signals. First, each sign is not confused by noise or tone. Second, you will be able to command your poodle from distance. Example: If he explores away from you he will see a single when he can't hear it over crowd or noise. If you watch your poodle as you are talking to it and it's obvious that it has facial expressions, he will relax and tighten his eyes, shift ear positions open and close his mouth, ect.
It's not just an old saying that you can tell what your poodle is thinking by 'reading ' it's facial expression; Poodles can recognize peoples facial expressions. they are visual learners. Some will copy a human's smile. Note that they smile when you laugh at your dog it is encouraging them to preform that activities good or bad. Remember to smile when you are happy and pleased and look angry when using a "NO". This will always get your point across. laughter is a happy body language,
We know that dogs communicate by using their bodies. Greeting behaviors among domestic dogs are highly ritualized, making them recognizable by all size types breeds and even mixes of dogs. No matter where in the world they were raised. Using your body to communicate your joy or displeasure can help your poodle to understand what you are communicating. If your body language matches. what you are trying to communicate, your poodle will find an easier time understanding your message. Threatening body language should never be used, it only create fear and distrust. Keep in mind that your poodle will be watching you for body clues.
The last sense is the scent of urine. Urine on a pole is a news report on a another dog "male, intact, large breed, alpha of the block, or old friendly male or just looking for play mate". A poodles ability to detect smells tells him much more about you than you can even imagine. Dogs can detect changes in our chemical makeup and are capable of smelling a seizure 30 minutes before it occurs and scenting out the early stages of several different types of cancer. It would be no surprise to many poodle owners if it were determined that poodles could actually scent out our mood changes, which I believe Trigger (one of mine) can. He gets very clingy when I start to stress or I am upset or mad. Sometimes he knows before I do and he even knows when I need a hug. So though we can't purposefully communicate to our Poodles using scents the poodle may possibly have a greater understanding of our subconscious communications through the breed's incredible sense of smell.
Finally, once I got started sharing knowledge, I constantly picked up and stole ideas and knowledge from wherever I could find it. I am happy to steal from friends and from people I don't even know. I am even happy stealing from books and calling it my own as long as the sharing of ideas could help bond a poodle to its owner. Trust me, I am sure I have already sent this or saw that information or took a class. However, to find the original Author would be futile because I have applied this for over 40 plus years,