How to Discipline Multiple Dogs

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Part of the video series: How to Care for Multiple Dogs

Summary: Learn how to discipline multiple dogs in this free dog care video from our pet health professional.

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Elise McMahon Elise McMahon has a Ph.D. in animal behavior, and has been working with both domestic and wild dogs since the early 1990s. She began studying domestic dogs in... read more

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How to Discipline Multiple Dogs

When you have multiple dogs in your household sometimes the question might be asked who is in charged here. It is important that the humans in the house are always the one's that are Saustall in charge of everyone in the house all the K-9s in the house. You then get that by management and training. Training is important when you have one dog it becomes more critical when you have more then one dog. So if we want to make sure that we are actually the leaders of the pack the one's in control in the house. If we are living a multiple dog household we need to make sure that we have done our ground work with training, all the basic commands. A lot of times a really good reliable sit is going to be the difference between a fight a or not a fight if we can get both individuals into different positions, redirect them, or have them do something else. It is very important that if we going to live with multiple dogs that we take that roll as leader and we don't let that roll fall to the dogs if we let it fall to the dogs then the whole household we be in a little bit of a state of havoc. But we can live very happily, very comfortably, very peacefully with the dogs as long as we are the one's that are in control of the each situation of the feeding, of the sleeping situation, as long as we know how to take control of that and the dogs understand that, that is our role and they except it then you can live peacefully with multi dogs in the same house.

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