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Helpfull Advice for Central Asian Ovcharka Owners

Good Advice

 It is permitted Everything is authorized, what is not forbidden
Everything, that is permitted today, always permitted
In special cases the owner forbids something from permitted, but is soft way with an explanation. For example, it is possible to lick the owner at a meeting, having put paws on shoulders. However, if paws are dirty, to do this it is not necessary.
 It is necessary To do everything, that the owner demands
To trust the owner if you are not guided in conditions
To bear unpleasant procedures because everything, that the owner does,he does for the good of the Central Asian Shepherd
  It is forbidden To snap, growl, bite the owner and his children and all members of the household
To run after cats, bicyclists, runners
It is forbidden to fight with small and weak dogs
It is forbidden to pick up food on the street from the ground or from the strangers

It is clear, that the list "is forbidden " each owner expands, but the list "is permitted" limits.

Walks with the Central Asian sheep-dog

It is necessary to talk separately about walks. They are necessary not only that the dog could celebrate natural needs. Value of walk for a dog is in other, and it is especially important if the dog lives at the country site. It is necessary for them to move, communicate with others, to learn something new, and contact to the owner in the street other, than in houses. Proceeding from this, walks should be long enough, various and substantial. Try to change places of walks, routes. Let the Central Asian sheep-dog get acquainted both with crowded places and with lonely corners, a field, the woods, coast of the river. Without change of impressions, accumulation of the information the Central Asian sheep-dog cannot grow up to become high-grade dog. In a new place, in unfamiliar conditions they will feel uncertain . Enrich their experience gradually, do not try to take the puppy from the first walks to the noisy places. It can turn out, that the automobile exhaust ,alarm e.t.c will frighten the puppy and it will be necessary to apply many forces to get rid of this fear. If your dog lives in the country site it is ok not to take them for a walk every day,but take them out of the gated property at least 2-3 times a week.Such walk is simply interesting to a dog.

Communicating with your CAO

It is very important to talk to the puppy, remember, that the Central Asian sheep-dog in a condition to collect a decent lexicon, i.e. in full sense to understand the words of human speech connected with subjects, actions and other "matters" . If you make comments on actions of a dog, not only with words "Good dog " and " Oh ,stupid dog " (we shall forget about not normative lexicon), when our talk is detailed with explanation about what is necessary to do, what is good and what is bad, the result will be simply fantastic. Talking to the Central Asian sheep-dog as with the five year old child, you will achieve that and they will perceive speech at that level.For example, you for the first time take the puppy in the house. For him the ladder is not clear and consequently a terrible construction. Talk easy, tenderly and confidently: " Good dog, come on go up the stairs, in fact it is not that terrible- then upwards, small, upwards ". When you have entered into a room: " Look at that , here is carpet, and here is a ball. And here a palm tree ,dogs do not eat that. Such monologue, can make you look weird and strange to some, but you don't work for public, but bringing up a dog for your own self and for your own needs. The puppy of the Central Asian Ovcharka that was accustomed to similar dialogue, becoming the adult it will be sharper and easy er to handle than the dogs who have been brought up in the old manner only on commands To him in any most complex, difficult situation you can explain, what it is required from him.

Encourage research activity of the growing Central Asian sheep-dog. Change toys more often, put them in unexpected places for the puppy. Use the most different subjects: very bright, the complex(difficult) form, rustling on a breeze, rattling at a touch, etc. If the puppy jumps aside away, do not hurry to think of him as a coward. Those who are afraid of nothing,do not live long . For the puppy of the Central Asian sheep-dog reasonable care – a natural stage of development.

Harmful advice

From the manual to manual pages of instructions were written on how to force the dog to accept the subordinated status. Probably few times it was possible to subordinate a dog with their help, but with the Central Asian sheep-dog much more often the effect expected to be the opposite.

Advice In what it most likely, will result
Steadfastly look in eyes of a dog, as animals do not bear a look of the human No mystical force in a sight of the person is present. Frighten the Central Asian sheep-dog a steadfast sight the person, which firmly convinced, that he now will eat this dog in the most direct sense. Such thing is possible only to professionals
In the conflict to the nonprofessional in an emphasis the Central Asian sheep-dog perceives a sight as a call on fight and immediately attacks
To bite a dog on a nose or an ear Categorically it is not necessary, what will you do, when the Central Asian sheep-dog will bite your nose?
The owner should go ahead of the dog, as this is the behavior of the leader Ahead generally goes the temporary leader of the pack, the leader goes where it's convenient to him
If you would follow this advice, it is necessary to forget about a command "Beside", how you will supervise behavior of the Central Asian sheep-dog who is behind your back?
The main thing - is not a place of following the owner, but that only he ( the owner) chooses where, how and when a dog goes
The owner eats first, and a dog eats after the master ended his meal Well owners and their dogs don't eat from one bowl ! People are in a condition to decide, when to sit down at the table
The owner has the right to take away a bowl, a piece of meat during meal from the Central Asian sheep-dog, it is strictly forbidden for a dog to suffice pieces without the permission

Source taken from the books of Elena Mychko " The Central Asian sheep-dog " М.: "Aquarium", 2003. - 416, " Your bodyguard " (in the co-authorship from V.A.Belenkim). М.: " the Field of Russia - the Euroasian region ". 1996. " Behavior of a dog " (in the co-authorship from M.N.Sotskoj, V.A.Belenkim, J.V.Zhuravlevym). М.: "Aquarium", 2003. " your dog " М.: " the Russian encyclopaedic company ", 2005.

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