In many ways, we think that our dogs are just dummies and act without any solid reasons. Hold on! This belief may be simply false! Your puppy is extremely smart

How do Dogs Think? and intelligent! It can think about you, how you act and respond! It can also assess and analyze your actions and reactions by reading through your mind! These are inherent to dogs as they were created to think and respond. They can be intelligent just because most of the dog owners have never cared to learn how to think and act like them.

Dogs do possess a number of highly refined thinking processes that help them to respond in a particular manner. Here are some of the methods by which your dog can think and act:

Non-verbal thinking: Most probably, we are all confused as what our dogs will be thinking when they are not doing anything! Nature has provided dogs an extremely innovative and highly sophisticated thinking process called “non-verbal thinking”. By using these techniques, your dog can assess, predict and analyze your actions, gestures, words and later respond with a firm reaction.

Just remember your dog wagging his tail and pleading with his eyes to direct you to provide his dinner? It is more possible that your dog is imagining (or trying to set up ‘imaging’ in his mind) the words, actions and movements you always say and do before serving his food.

Imagery and Picture: It is well established that dogs think in many sensory impressions; pictures of visual, sound and odor that exist around them. They have a mental mechanism that allows them to form, create, etch and experience in their minds certain images, odors and sounds.

They can perceive future images in their brain and act accordingly in response to the given situation. You puppy may create an image of you coming back to home and hug him with an enthusiastic greetings. It’ll also create a picture that tells him to jump up with joy and start circling around his owner.

These pictures are always composed just before the future event and dogs are the presumed to be the masters in these exercises. Your puppy can always imagine things, perceive invisible movements and experience future events in his mind before actually see them in real.

If your dog anticipates something in his mind, and by chance if they do not happen in reality, then they can get really frustrated and anxious. These negative behaviors will pave for a future display of indecent behavior in them. If your puppy gets to experience the same episodes every other day, then it may create a conflicting situation in his mind. Consistently conflict-ridden mind will make the dogs out of sync and reality; this will eventually lead to deep rooted frustration and many ill-conceived behaviors.

If dogs really do collect and recall images of their masters and other family members, and other objects and experiences of life, this can come very beneficial to us, and we can share the information for mutual benefit and use.

Unfortunately, dog owners never try to understand how dogs can think and behave, which subsequently leads to future occurrence of misbehavior and bad habits. Dogs are known to have a problem in associating images and pictures to real life incidences and experiences.

The come command is one of the most important oral commands, come is an essential command to keep your puppy under control and also to make them safe and out of danger.
 
Make your puppy wear his leash,
 
Make him to sit and stay at a particular place,
 
Walk away a few steps with a treat in your hand,
 
Turn and face the puppy to say “come” command and start praising him.
 
Reward and praise your dog when he comes near you,

Increase the distance between you and the dog every day,
 
Remove the leash once you perceive that your puppy has mastered the technique,

Never scold the dog when you’re training it for oral commands. Dogs can learn what you intend to teach them.

Hating men or women is the most peculiar form of instability in dogs. They seem to be sweet and happy with one sex and nervous or vicious with the other. What form of neurosis causes this we don’t know. What can an owner do to make a dog with this nature livable?

First, examine the owner’s mind. Has he or she ever had a grudge against the opposite sex? Did an overpowering schoolteacher make the young boy’s or girl’s life a misery? Does he or she boast that they only get along with men or women? Alsatians are peculiar in this way and will hate men or women instinctively if thought transference comes from an owner with a similar dislike. Many women like big guard dogs, and the big guard dog thrives in this state of affairs and easily develops a dislike of the sex the owner wishes to dominate.

Corgis do the same. This has been particularly noted in these two breeds, partly because they are highly intelligent breeds and telepathy is very marked and partly because the shepherding instinct is uppermost and they have a natural suspicion of strangers. Correct them firmly when young and one gets no further trouble. Accept their suspicious natures, and you will have dogs that hate men or women, usually women.

Now how do we live with such dogs? The world being what it is, we can’t mix with only one sex. Even husbands or wives are a necessity, and it is often against the one or the other that the particular hate is centered. I think the solution is either to send the dog to be boarded or trained by a person of the sex it hates, or else get friends of that sex to feed it or take it for walks. If it shows any signs of being vicious, muzzle it and send it out for a long walk with the person it dislikes. Greet joyously that person when he or she returns and praise the dog. Make the person pat the dog and praise it before saying goodbye and, if possible, give it its food.

Of course there aren’t many good friends who will do this, but I think that if an advertisement was put in the local newspaper, some dog lover would respond. It might even help to employ a “dog sitter” of the hated sex when you go out so that when you are out, the only comfort the dog would get would be from the sex it dislikes.

Only by being made to tolerate people will it respond. Obviously, if a female owner has been jilted and hates all men, her dog will naturally pick up this feeling when the owner is talking to a man. In many cases, all these faults in dogs can be traced to some minor mental disturbance of the owner, although the owner may be unaware of it.