At some point in your dogs’ early life, it was most likely that is mom corrected him for something like chewing on her, or taking her food.
You’d think mom dogs would share all their food with their puppies. That may be true most of the time, just as most mom dogs won’t get thoroughly upset when their babies chew on her too much.
But, at some point mom needs to protect herself from her puppies, and furthermore, nature dictates appropriate rules of behavior that she is compelled to enforce.
Mom dogs will bat at them sideways with their mouth, while making a guttural sound much like the word out. Kind of like an umpire might be heard to say. This, if you’re pup had ever been corrected by his mom, will have a profound effect on him, much like Pavlov’s bell.
In many instances this sound will stop a dog in is tracks.
If you fail to praise immediately after creating this sound, you will not have the benefits of it.
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