Raising and training a puppy: what’s the difference?

Some owners find it difficult to tell the difference between raising and training a dog. However, these are still somewhat different things. What’s the Difference?

Both upbringing and training a puppy is always learning. But teaching different things: for example, specific teams or even entire sports disciplines, like subjects in a human school (and then we are talking about training) or social behavior skills – and then we are talking about raising a puppy.

If we continue to draw parallels with people, then a child can perfectly solve mathematical problems and win olympiads (that is, he is trained), but at the same time be completely ill-mannered and do not comply with the norms of living in society.

That is, training a puppy is learning commands: “Sit”, “Stand”, “Lie down”, “Come to me”, “Next”, etc., etc. A trained dog is trained to perform certain commands by verbal (voice) commands or by the gesture of the trainer.

Raising a puppy is instilling in him the norms of behavior in human society. We teach a pet to behave in a given situation correctly by default, without additional commands.

For example, a trained but ill-mannered dog does not pull on a leash, only following the command “Near”. A trained dog does not pull on a leash by default, because it has been trained to do so, and commands are not needed for this.

A well-mannered dog knows not to jump on guests. A dog that is only trained may try to put its front paws on the guests, however, it can execute the “Sit” command and remain on the exposure.

That is, despite the fact that training and raising a puppy are closely related, there is still a difference.

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