Few dog owners realize that shouting at a barking dog is, in fact, responding to the barking with a human version of the same behavior. Many dogs will become silent because they associate the owner's tone of voice with disapproval and impending pain from punishment. However, certain temperaments will often get worse. In the non-verbal world of the dog, silenece signifies silence, stillness begets stillness, action stimulates action, etc. The owner, a mature woman who had raised 3 chidlren, was displaying signs of becoming a problem dog owner, one of which is a mistaken belief that puppies or even older dogs possess the ability to understand words as humans do.
Spoken language is just noise to dogs.
The upward inflection used with the entire sentence often indicates that it is time to get excited about something, the nature of which is revealed by the key word involved. The single, most glaring feature of problem owners is ignorance - not stupidity, but an almost perfect vacuum of knowledge about what makes their dogs behave as they do. Domineering-Physical An owner had a dog with highly active defense reflexes. The puppy responded to harsh punishment during the housetraining period with snarls and actual attacks. The owner, puppy and counsellor attended a behavioral session.