Should i whip my dog

After the incident I knew he could not be adopted to anyone and have since taken the role of full time mom. He is a great white mountain dog mix and very set minded. Bentley is lbs now, 56 lbs more than he weighed after the first incident only 6 months ago. It had worked and myself along with the other people around are ok. Today Bentley had a walk with a neighbor who given interest in becoming his full time dog walker while I am at school.

On his third walk with the neighbor, Jack, who Bentley has seen and greeted several times; bit him on his hand while Jack was holding a muffin. In doing so Bentley bit into my neighbors hand… Twice! And then laid down on the concrete to eat the entire muffin. Jack is not mad, and wants to continue to walk Bentley.

As much help it would be for me I am worried. Not only that but I am shocked. Bentley has never shown this type of aggression before now and I belive he knows what a hand is, due to my intense food handeling techniques and treat retrieval methods. I do not know how to show that his aggression is not wanted. If you are still replying to these posts any information would be helpful. In cases such as this, it is probably best to get in touch with a good professional trainer and do some private training sessions.

While training my Shiba Inu, who is also a very stubborn dog, I found that fear is really the enemy. Once I started fearing him and getting stressed, his behavior got worse, which made me more afraid, and so on.

In aggression cases, especially with large dogs, it can sometimes help to use management equipment such as a muzzle I use a basket muzzle which is less constraining and still allows the dog to pant. In this way, our own fear is lessened during the training process, which will help our dog achieve success. It also prevents the dog from being rewarded for his aggression, which as you say, would only reinforce the aggressive behavior. It is probably best to consult with a professional trainer who can observe Bentley in real-time, and identify what things trigger his aggression.

Sometimes, physical issues, such as joint pain can also trigger aggression. If anyone gets to close to me or hugs me, he starts to bark. How do I stop this over protectiveness? What do I do and how do I stop this? With over protectiveness, I usually no-mark Ack-ack my puppy when she does this.

This communicates to her that it is an undesirable behavior. Then, I ask her for an alternative command, e. If she complies, she gets attention and affection. If she ignores the command, then I withdraw my attention and turn away from her. Sometimes, if she is too pushy, I will body block her away from me and not allow her to come near me for a certain duration. If she escalates her behavior and starts to bite me or others, she goes to time-out. We have had dogs all our entire lives, and all generations of our family, has never hit, spanked, or beaten a dog.

Even once! Reward training is the way to go, and we did it before it even had a name. A puppy who is biting can be discouraged by the human being chewed upon, by squeeling loud.

It reminds the pup that she is playing too rough. A dog doing something wrong can be discouraged by turning your back on her. I could go on forever here with advice, but there are training books better than I could ever say.

And written by gentle people who train dogs. But if you want a gentle and loving dog, dont hit them. Same goes for little children, hitting them only makes it worse. Pour love and gentleness onto your kids and pets, and you will be rewarded. Hi, I have a girl Akita Rylie and a boy Husky Maverick, similar to you, they are great dogs but the Husky will not stop pulling and making it very hard to walk them both, apart from the obvious any other ideas?

We have a dog scooter but cant run them on hot days. Thanks Sian x. To properly walk them both, I would have to be a lot more strict, and give them a lot less freedom. Even then, it would be difficult to manage things if they spot a deer, and their prey-drive goes into high gear.

We have a 11 month old yellow lab. Our dog is a good dog. I just want her to not do certain behaviors, like destroy things with her mouth, or slow down our run by always losing her focus and sniffs at everything. In terms of chewing, what has worked well for my dogs is to teach them what are acceptable things to chew on and what are not. If they redirect on the chew toy, then I praise them very well and reward them with attention and sometimes treats.

If they do not, then I just body block them away from the non-chew area, and get them to do some obedience commands. Afterward, I give them something acceptable to chew on. Bite inhibition training is also very helpful. Being a Lab, she should pick up bite inhibition quickly. As for sniffing, most dogs love to sniff. They are built for it.

I use a 6 foot leash to walk my dogs and not a flexi-leash. You get more control by using 6 foot leash. Here are some of my experiences on leash training my dogs. One of my neighbors also loves to run. She tells me that she walks her dogs separately, and only runs on her own. Hi there! Our dog growls at us when we correct him. What can we do to stop him from growling? What do you correct him for and what specific technique do you use to correct him? Sometimes aversive corrections can cause aggression in dogs because of fear or stress.

The dog would have to realized that the pain it feels when the owner bites is the same as when he or she bites. The dog would have to have sympathy for causing the owner this pain. Purposefully causing pain to dog or human as punishment hardly ever works. I myself do not believe in punishment at all. Maybe not in dogs, but in humans punishing one behavior with something like grounding and time-out, while it may lead to better behavior for the moment, only causes the child to become frustrated and confused.

Just a little tap hard enough to get his attention. Poor Lupie was just 6 weeks old with a tiny bladder when we got him, but as soon as he developed the muscles to control himself at about four months old he never had another accident in the house. Good to see you! I just got a Sibe puppy so I am being reminded of the challenges of potty training. The rain is definitely not helping.

Puppy is fun, small, and fiercely energetic! I guess I forgot how much work it is to care for a new puppy. On the bright side, it gives me a lot of new material to write about and cute puppy pictures to go along with it. How is Lupin? Give him a big hug from me and some big sloppy kisses from Sephy, Shania, and puppy Lara. Your pack is growing! Sephy must feel outnumbered by all the girl Huskies! I think the key to potty training is to be there for the first few months.

We had Lupin chained to us until he was potty trained, so that no accident, or accident-to-be, went unnoticed. You probably know this stuff yourself, though!

Your potty training tips are right on. Puppy decided that that was a good time for her to take a bathroom break as well. Now I do what you say and keep puppy chained to me at all times.

The only downside I found with keeping Lupin with me at all time was that he developed separation anxiety. I remember the first night he was upgraded from the cat carrier in my room to the actual dog kennel in the living room. He could barely fit into the cat carrier by then I knew he could hold his bladder through the night, but he cried for quite some time anyway, and maybe some nights after.

I learned the hard way that it is not the best thing to try and quiet him when he was whining, because then he learned that whining got me to come out and perhaps open the cage. We just had to ignore him until he stopped. Now we have his kennel in storage, and he hopefully sits at the door whenever we leave just in case we decide he can come. That is true in some respects.

For example puppy Lara learned from the other dogs that she needs to Sit and calmly wait before she gets any food. So there are additional issues to deal with in a multi-dog household. My fiance and I use the aversive dog discipline to house train all our previous dogs.

It eventually works after they associate peeing in the house with pain. We recently got a 6 month old pup and have been using this technique. But afterwards I was concerned about her submissive behavior. We not only got our new dog as a companion, but as our protector too. Thank you so much for all the information and actually having an understanding and answers about different techniques to discipline a dog instead of just judging those who use different techniques.

I guess I and a lot of other people associate discipline of a dog to discipline of some of our parents, cuz when I was young and did something wrong it would be my ass. Your input has helped me have a better understanding of how to discipline my dog and still have a loving relationship too.

Thanks again. Hi Sam, Thanks for your comment. Yeah I started out using aversive methods as well. At that time, I definitely got hit by a lot of judgement from people of both sides. The aversive people were telling me I was doing it all wrong and the reward people were telling me shame shame for using aversive methods — LOL.

Yeah my mom did aversive discipline and my dad did reward discipline so I actually got to see both in action. I do require my Shiba to do something before being rewarded.

However she is chewing carpet, television chords, computer wires, the couch. Pretty much anything but her toys. I have gotten a water bottle and occasionally spray her in the face. That only works for the time being, by the time the mist dries she is right back to what she was doing only mere seconds ago. The spray stuff is unbearable for me. It gets on my hands and I can taste it on my lips and it becomes hard for me to breathe.

She is not a bad puppy just curious. What am I doing wrong. I am with her all day. We walk to expel energy, I play with her toys with her but the carpet seems to be the most interesting thing on her agenda. Please Help! Two things that helped with my Shiba during his early puppy chewing — 1. Redirection — I would non-mark him ack-ack or No for doing the action, and then get him to do something else, usually some obedience commands and then reward him for it by letting him work on some interactive food toy.

Time-outs — As you have noted, Shibas can be extremely stubborn, so sometimes, he would just want to keep going back to the curtains or whatever. When he tries again, I will body block him away from the area, and get him to go his mat and work on his toy. If he does not comply, I put him on a short time-out few minutes in the extremely boring make sure there is nothing in there to chew laundry room. If he goes back to chewing again as soon as he comes out, then I put him back into time-out for a slightly longer period of time and so on.

And this is all happening while toy after toy is after to him. I have been trying the non-mark I use ah-ah from watching Victoria! Do you use both since you have described them both here? Do you have a preference? But your time-out idea sounds phenomenal. It got him good for a bit but then he chewed again. After time-outs, he went suuuuuuper hyper and dashed around the house, and he is also avoiding the path to the bathroom I used to time-out him.

Please do let me know if I made a mistake somewhere in handling the situation! For a non-mark I usually use Ack-ack because it is more unique than No. By using a unique word, the dogs know that every time I say Ack-ack, if they do not stop, then there is always a consequence for their actions. Consistency, I have found, is very important in dog training. Every time I non-mark, I always follow through with an action if the pups do not listen and do not stop.

I usually respond in the same way for the same behavior. In this way, they learn that if they dig holes in the yard, they lose their backyard privileges and have to come into the house. If they bite each other too hard, play stops and they have to do obedience commands, etc. Also, I make sure to start small and then slowly escalate the consequence only if the dog escalates his behavior.

In general, we want to only a reward a good behavior. As you say, if we reward undesirable behaviors then the dog will keep repeating that behavior. When Sephy bites on furniture, I non-mark him and give him an alternate command that he knows very well , e.

Go to Your Mat. If he complies with that command, then I reward him for doing what I asked. Often, I would treat him, and also play with him so he learns that following what I say is very rewarding. If he does not comply then I slowly take away his freedoms.

First I body block him away, then I do an obedience session with him. If he ignores me and goes back to biting then I take him to time-out. In this way he learns that if he follows what I say then he gets some really great rewards. If he continues doing undesirable stuff then he loses his freedom and his access to people. Try slowly increasing the time he stays in time-out. Also, I always ask my dogs to do some simple obedience commands before they come out of time-out.

Then when they come out, I hold onto their drag lead for a bit, so they only have limited freedom for a while. In general, I have found that it is better to be more strict and have more rules in the beginning. Then the rules can later be relaxed as the puppy matures. Yeah, mostly with my Shiba Inu.

He was a very stubborn dog, even as a puppy. We had some difficult times — but it got better. In terms of resentment, that is a very good question. I think that is why I usually try to set my dogs up for success. In this way, I can reward them and they are less likely to do something that is undesirable to me. However, there will be times when puppy does something that is against the house rules.

In any stable and healthy relationship, there has to be give and take. Thank you so much for providing such thorough and helpful answers to my ten thousand questions, same for the answers you provided for my comments on your other posts as well! It definitely gives me much more determination and hope to get advice from someone who went through the same troubles as opposed to just how-to-do-this articles online that makes everything sound like they are easy!

I disgree with this article. I am not critizing your article but hitting and slapping any animals I believe it makes them more aggressive. I can see if your in a situation where a dog attacks you but still there are other ways then violence. Always carry maze or a squirt bottle with with water mix with pepper or another solution but hitting, spanking, beating a dog, it is humane and violent behaviour in mankind.

Hello Starbug, I am actually very much against hitting and slapping dogs. If that does not come through in the article — please let me know which sections are unclear. So in your original scenario, if you are standing there talking to your neighbor and your dog gets fixated on one of his cats, what is the most appropriate course of action?

From my experience, the easiest course of action to prevent the situation from escalating further is to simply walk away, but then you have to break up your conversation with the neighbor which is bad for you because the dog has prevented you from interacting with someone. You can snap him out of it by stomping your feet or snapping your fingers, but he goes right back into it.

From my understanding, you have to snap him out of it before he goes into that state of mind, but it seems to keep him out of that mindset, you have to be every bit as persistent as he is. I think that the best thing to do is to slowly desensitize my dog to cats. To do it right, I would have to get help from someone who has a very sedate cat.

Have the cat stay with his owner a far distance away from my dog, and then slowly move my dog towards the cat. I will do obedience commands with him from time to time and treat him accordingly. If I keep doing this several times every day for perhaps a few months, my dog will get desensitized to the cat, and no longer get excited over it.

After all, it has become routine — we go look at the cat, my dog sits nicely, and we have a good time doing obedience commands. Once it becomes routine, I can start decreasing the distance, introducing other cats, and letting the cat move.

If he does not give it to me, I move back and keep moving back until he is paying attention to me again. When that happens I let him stop and look at the cat as long as he is willing to give me his attention when I ask for it. Sometimes I will let him sit there for a good long while. After a bit my dog usually relaxes, the cat at that point has fallen asleep, so we just sit there and enjoy the weather.

Now this scenario is not as good as the first scenario because I am not in control of the random cat. Sometimes the cat will start getting frisky, and that will get my dog going again. When that happens I move away from the cat until my dog is willing to be calm again. There are also some cats that will move towards me and my dog. I will usually remove my dog totally away from these kamikaze cats and try my best to avoid them in the future. In this way, my dog is hopefully learning that if he stays calm he gets to look at the cat but if he gets too excited then he has to move away.

My Siberian has never had this experience so now I am trying to do it with the random cats we see while walking. I think we are making some progress. When it comes to something that is so instinctual — there really are no quick fixes. Using physical force will often make the situation worse because then the dog is making very negative associations with cats. In addition, a physical correction may amp up the dog even more and get him into a frenzy. This happened to me before as well.

Great hub, Shiba! There is definitely a great potential danger there if he thinks his teeth can be used on a soft squishy human as a game! First of all, YUCK to a mouthful of hair, but second — how does biting nowhere near as hard as a horse can teach your horse not to bite you?

Yeah I think that there are very many similarities between training dogs and horses. Even the whole dog whispering thing first came from horses. Btw, I really enjoyed your hubs on horses. I really wonder where this "ear technique" came from. I was on Yahoo! Answers, and saw a bunch of people suggest to others that they do this, so I wanted to write something to try and convince them not to. Definitely agree with you on the human smarts. Dogs learn through conditioning.

They repeat behaviors that get them good results, and They stop behaviors that get them bad results. Resource based dog discipline results in a stronger bond and a happier relationship. Reward methods result in a dog licking our hand rather than running away from it. Reward methods result in a dog licking our face rather than biting it. Reward based dog discipline is safer because there is little danger for our dog to become fearful, aggressive, or stressed. Ultimately, reward training allows us to forge a stronger bond with our dog, and makes him into a responsible canine, who works for what he wants.

Comments 1 2 3 4 Next ». I have a question, i have a 4 month old shiba inu who is adorable and brings us a lot of joy, however we have one main issue with him: When we give him his chewing bone made of bull skin and we try and take it back he becomes like a little devil. Thank you, Hara. Hello Katrina, Siberian Huskies usually have high prey drive. Here is a bit more on- How I trained my puppy. Hi there, I have a 7 year old female golden retriever who is a fantastic dog, except when she gets on my couch!

Any advice you can give would be so much appreciated!!! Thank you!!!! Also, he is not neutered. Should I try and get this done? I also set up a very fixed routine with fixed times for eating, walks, play, etc. I think separating them into manageable groups is a good idea. Hello Kurt, When Sephy my Shiba Inu was young, he would try to eat almost everything that we saw on our walks.

Hello Pam, Desensitization exercises were helpful to my Sibes, who were initially afraid of loud noises from the garbage truck and from singing coyotes. Congratulations on your new puppy. Hello, First off I want to say thank you for such a wonderful site! Thanks so much in advance! Hello Daniel, Sounds like your dog has a pretty high prey drive, which can account for why he likes chasing moving things.

Dear Michelle, In terms of fear aggression, what has worked best with my dogs is to help them re-associate the fearful stimulus to something positive. Hey guys, i just wanted to ask you what to do with my Shiba inu 6 months old , i am new at this. Thank you do much for your read. Wonderful explanations. Hello Daz, Big Kudos to you for helping out a dog in need. Hugs to Bentley. Let us know how it goes. Yeah, I walk each Husky separately. When out together, they both want to be lead dog.

Hugs to Rylie and Maverick! Love those names. Please give me advice. Hey Alex, Good to see you! Yeah, I think 3 furry ones is my limit. Give us all updates on your puppy when you can. Hello Mahogany, Two things that helped with my Shiba during his early puppy chewing — 1. I have to raise more the voice for respect. So what may works for some dogs may not work for others. When you take a puppy at 8 weeks you basically remove it from the mom at an earlier age. They learn with his brother and sisters how to bite hard and soft.

When they are playing if one puppy bite the other one hard, u will see how the other react and bite harder meaning stop you crossed the line. It is that abuse hell not. When I got my puppy his tale was almost without hair becuase they bite to each other.

When they are not being obedient for example they are breastfeeding and bite the mother breast believe me she is going to bite him back and bark and to tell him stop that hurts. The puppy will scream of pain sometimes. It means you crossed the line. Dogs will understand. They are smart. If you dog is not listening to your commands and you spank him I do not see any physical abuse. He will calm down. Now if you hit a dog becuase he peed in the house becuase you are lazy to take him out then it is physical abuse becuase it is not the dog fault but yours.

My lab when i got him home I took him out every 3 hours for the next month. I was hard but he had like very few accidents. Never spanked it for that since he was learning. Now if my dog start bitting me and I say stop and he keeps doing it giving a treat for reinforcement means nothing. Some dogs will get it others could care less. If i will spank him and say not. Believe by the third time when i say not and give him a look he will know not to do it anymore.

He only respect me. As soon as he sees me believe me he comes plays and does with me like nobody else. But he knows when he cross the line, discipline is coming. Kelly Ann, come on now. Ease up. There is a science behind dogs learning through physical responses without it being abuse. How about do some research. Narrow minded response you gave. You can love an animal and sometimes tough love is required.

Everything Michael explained was spot on even tho you had to attack his grammar. Is there a special hell for that too? Let me know when you get there I guess. Kelly Anne, your response is ridiculous. Kelly Anne Conway perhaps? The heartfelt, intelligent post from Michael is neither the time or place. Obviously he spelled well enough for you to understand his point and disagree with him. He probably has more experience with dogs than you do.

Nice to see some people admitting that some dogs need a good smack sometimes. Not every dog is the same.. They said the dog was jealous of my new born baby. I understand that a lot of people have a strong emotional connection to these creatures. It is my personal opinion that dogs are not humans therefore should not be treated like children.

If a dog gets out of line, I'm completely in favor of a hitting. That said dog abuse is something very serious and should be punishable. It is my opinion that dog abuse is going out of your way to make a creatures life miserable in a sinister and abusive fashion.

However correcting a dog by using physical force is not dog abuse. I'm a firm believer of treating dogs like dogs not like people. For example raising a child is not like raising a dog. I personally have four children and I would never ever hit them, however when it comes to a dog We humans tend to follow trends, now its the abuse, violence and bullying is a no no Now lgbt is ok, before it was bad.

Slavery was acceptable to buy another human Plus, what you see on tv as animal channels are mostly lies moving along what people favour nowadays. They are living, breathing beings are deserve only love and respect. Im talkin frm day one not sleeping with them in. My pup gets a quick. Sleeps in.

Doesnt bolt out the door but sits and waits till his leads attatched. We're now working on not jumping up on people and not nicking everyone elses ball in the park lol.

Yes other methods like positive re inforcement also works but u. Nothing wrong with a slap which is. At the end of the day u dont want to. Let's see how positive reinforcement works against an agressive dog that is ripping chunks out of your flesh. Training should be tailored to each and every individual dog. New age positive only trainers are scammers looking to make a quick buck on people's emotions. In a scenario where a dog is being disbobedient the punishment should match the disobedient act and temperament of the dog.

I'm some cases a verbal command is sufficient whereas in some cases physical punishment may be warranted. I'm a first time dog owner. I've continuously used positive reinforcement to train my dog into the correct habits. This usually only works when the dog is exhibiting the correct behavior or the dog can be easily led into that behavior.

It doesn't work if the dog is exhibiting a behavior, which you want them to stop. Our dog puppy was scratching at our bedroom door and whining every morning. There was no effective way to train it to stop doing that except a proper and immediate spank.

However spanking doesn't always work the right way either. Our puppy started to eat her own feces. Again, the only effective way in my opinion was to give her a spank right when we caught her doing it.

The result? However it also have her a lot of anxiety going to the toilet in that designated area, which was an outdoor fake grass patch, and since then shes had 3 mistakes within 1 week. Prior to that she hasnt had any mistakes in 2 month. Physical punishment can be effective when applied at the right time and place, but with my provided example it can also lead to other severe consequences that have further implications.

I wouldn't respect someone who beat me. I would hate them and I would look for a way to take them down, biding my time. If you think this argument is inadequate, find a logical reason why it wouldn't work the same way with dogs.

I respect people of strength, people who don't need to rely on physical abuse to assert dominance. You want to be dominant, treat the dog with respect, be dominant rather than be abusive.

Ask yourself, would you rather listen to someone abusive, or would you rather listen to someone who respected you. Animals may not have human rights but that is no reason to treat them disrespectfully simply because you see humankind as superior.

It is a doomed viewpoint. Don't treat dogs like an inanimate object. You are as mindless as a rock. Probably beat your wife if one was dumb enough to get talked into that with you. Learn how to treat people animals will turn against you also if you hit and beat them. People take a dog training course. I use too watch the dog whisperer. Majority of those people treated dogs like humans and the dogs always took that to the head.

No sence of dominance was established so the dogs were aggressive and looked over commands from human leader. Honestly speaking if my dog bites me hes dead I dont beat the shit out my dog, but wile young i teach him that I'm boss. The same people that says dont spank dogs are the same people who has to sleep with one eye open so their kids won't come their room and Stab them to death. I can eat out of my dogs bowl and he won't bite at me. Cause i tore his ass up when he was young.

And if the tried it now id put 1 in his head. Pooping the house I train by consistency and a little tail wooping. If their kids are spoiled and bad then the dogs will bite also..

It's on the owner. Consistency our neglect. Your choice. I dont believe in beating dogs for fun. But my dog dont use the restroom in my house. He dont bite me even if i pull his tail. The perfect recipe, ass wooping, consistency and love. Thats answer. Half the people on here act like dogs have human rights or something. Whipping a dog does work when done at the right time. Immediately after he does something that it knows is wrong. Respect is nothing without fear.

Law is nothing without fear. That's like saying let all the criminals go free just respect them, and if you break a law then we will remove what caused it. Mercy all the time is asking only for disobedience. Law and order. I agree that positive training methods are the way forward. Testament to this is my well trained and normally well behaved border collie.

I do not spank for any other reason that actions that are not acceptable. This is limited to flagrant destruction of property books, clothes, shoes etc My Corgi is over 9months old, he recently started biting whenever we try to force feed him supplements or whenever our hands touch his side jaw. My corgi has always been calm and sociable, we used to be able to open his jaws with out hands to feed him supplements or take away Objects his not suppose to eat.

Until recently, when we tried to feed him his supplement tablet through gently trying to open his mouth, he unexpectedly becomes aggressive and starts biting full force. He also starts growling intensely, and air-biting to threaten us off. We noticed it wasn't safe to force feed him so we stopped and blend the supplements with his meals.

However, he is still unpredictable and may sometimes bite when hand touches his side jaws. What should we do to correct this behavior? I cannot believe there are so many idiots out there that still believe violence is an ok teaching tool.

I hope to them it means that if their children are doing something wrong its ok for a teacher to give them a smack in the face and if they still don't listen they should get a beaten. Listen to yourselves - if you have to resort to any violence to teach your dog then you shouldn't have one. You are just to lazy to take the time to teach the dog.

See I extremely disagree, my dog bit me and drew blood I could see the bone in my hand all because I nipped up the road literally for 2 min and he shit upstairs twice, so I went to slap the first time I have ever went to lay a hand on him i got told I should put him down, all this rubbish about positive reinforcement isn't true, "don't treat dog's like humans" all dogs have personalities my dog is 'cocky' people say that you shouldn't punish dogs but when it takes over 7 months to heal then hell yeahh they need punishing.

I've spent enough time with dogs to learn that they don't have feelings and thoughts in the human sense. There is a kind of emotiveness to their experience, some sort of subjective tint, but they definitely don't have the ability to choose their behaviors. And in the absence of that freedom, their 'emotions' if that's what you want to call their fear and excitement have no more moral stating than the condition of a car's engine or a flower's bloom.

Dog's aren't human-beings, but they also aren't dog-beings. They aren't any kind of thinking feeling being. They don't love, they don't sorrow, they don't feel anxiety, they are machines and should be treated as such. Remember, your dog doesn't love you. Many creatures have adapted to take advantage of humans. Rats and roaches exploit our wastefulness. Dog's exploit our need for love by providing a pleasant illusion for affection.

The only interesting question about hitting a dog is "will it work? Violence is one tool, but as the author has pointed out, it's not the most effective one in most cases. Negative stimulus is harder to use than positive stimulus, because it is necessarily reactive instead of proactive.

I think what everyone needs to remember is that animals do not understand being punished. All they connect is the bad experience and having to do with you. Dogs also see anger as a sign of weakness, they don't understand it. Dogs need limitations and control, if your dog is destroying things or peeing everywhere think of what limitations it needs in order to have these things corrected. Just like a child if left to its own will get into trouble.

We have a Basset hound and I am have set stricked limitations, such as she is not permitted upstairs where our bedrooms are this helps her to understand that we are in control of her environment. Secondely we have taught her commands to help when she is being bad, Leave It is a very good one to teach because any time she touches something she shouldn't we say Leave It in a stern voice and stand with our hands on hips until she releases and then praise her for doing what we ask.

I also do A LOT of leash training, when walking and also in the house. I have three children and a 2 year old who is grabby, by having her on leash when they are excited helps her to control her level of excitedness. I also find that leashing inside gives you that extra confidence if you are having trouble controling your temper.

We also walk our dog for 45 minutes in the am and then again in our pm. We notice a big difference in her behavior if she doesn't get a walk and is more difficult to control. This Dog has taught me more about myself then I could ever have none, I am naturally a hot tempered person and with three kids on top it can be a struggle to maintain my composure.

DO not cross that line just like you wouldn't with a child, hitting does nothing and teaches your dog nothing but to fear you. Training is everything and it gives a lot of satisfaction when your dog actually listens, you just have to bridge the gap of understanding. Good Luck Everyone. Yeah, both my Sibes have high prey drive as well. It is part of their breed makeup.

I read in one of the Sibe books that their original breeders, the Chukchi would let their dogs out in the summer to hunt on their own. Here is more on my experiences with prey-drive or what I like to call the "Squirrel Instinct"-. I have a beautiful desexed male 2 year old husky who is my furbaby. I took him to puppy school and then obedience classes and have only ever used positive reinforcement training with him - I don't agree with aversive training methods and have seen dogs become very aggressive because of it.

Riley is a beautiful dog, he is extremely friendly even to strange people and dogs. However, typical for a Husky he has a very high pray drive. Last night I was awoken by a horrible noise and my dog had somehow managed to kill an owl. I was furious and I hit him. I have never hit him before. He ran off and wouldn't come near me until the next day. I feel incredibly guilty, but when I think back on it I don't know what else I would have done in that situation. Is there anything I can do? Or do I need to just accept it as part of his instinct?

At the moment I am managing it by keeping him inside in my room with me at night which is when he kills things the most. I am so glad to hear that things are getting better. Sounds nasty about the chemicals. It is a good warning that we should all be careful when having our carpets professionally cleaned. I've found the route of the problem. My carpet has some sort of chemicals in it and I've complained to the property manager. My dog's paw's would swell up.

She's been at my brothers and hasn't had a problem but within 3 hours of being back here. It's this place.. I threatened to break my lease and they offered me a new place with brand new carpet, brand new cabanets, brand new doors. I really do aprichiate the advice I have this page saved as a home page when I open up my IE it pops up. Thank you so much!! What seems to work well with my dogs, is to calmly no-mark them when they do something undesirable, and then follow-up by telling them what to do instead.

In this way, we are teaching our dogs different ways to deal with stress and over-excitement. For example, first I teach my dog some simple commands.

When he jumps on me, I ask him for a Sit instead. If he follows the command, I reward him with attention and a game. If he does not, then I turn away from him and ignore him.

I had a lot of problems with my Shiba Inu when he was a puppy. I also got very frustrated and angry with him, but then I realized that when I was upset, his behavior actually worsened. When I was able to stay calm, he was a lot more likely to calm down as well. She will not listen or lean with treats.. She constantly jumps on my couch, pee's all over the house and on my bed. She puts her paws up like she's boxing stands on her 2 back feet. I say NO!!!!! Chihuahua mix idk what to do anymore, I've been yelling a lot because I'm getting sick of her Alpha behavior.

She has started peeing when I yell now. I have spanked her twice but I felt bad so I don't spank her I feel bad yelling but it's the only way she'll listen.

I leave her in the Kennel whenever I go somewhere she wont eat when in it, hours. I'm getting to the point of bringing her back to the shelter but they will put her to sleep so I refuse to, no one I knows wants her.. I pet her and she'll roll over and put her paws up and start clawing at my face.. I agree with you that rules are important for domestic dogs. Dogs need to learn our human rules so that they can live safely and happily with us.

However, there are many different ways to teach rules to our dogs. Personally, I do not use pain based aversive techniques because they are risky and can cause undue stress. As for whether something is right or wrong, good or bad, that is dependent on each person's moral compass, and we each make that decision for ourselves.

I really don't think anyone should abuse or brutally beat a dog in training, but i really don't think Not hitting your dog in a form of punishment is going to help either. He's never growled at me or snapped at me, he is my sweet baby and i love him very much. My close friend doesn't believe my form of discipline works even though my dogs respond well to it, and in result her dog growls at her and snaps at her, her dog jumps on her glass table to sleep and is very disobedient, her dog will not even let her brush his coat.

I don't abuse my dog and it annoys me when ppl all over the internet say that if u hit ur dog its abuse, hitting your dog in the slightest way is not abuse, its discipline.

I would never think you should Hurt your dog, hit them too hard or exaggerate their punishment in any way, i hit my dog slightly on the butt and yell when he does a bad deed and he behaves so well. The good things i do for my sweet hearts is much more then any times i have to resort to punishment and they don't fear me, my babies run to me every time i come home and cry if i walk to another room without them..

Recall has to do grabbing our dog's attention. When a dog is outside, there will be more distractions, and it will be harder to grab his attention and vice versa. I usually start recall training inside the house and in the backyard where it is quiet and there are fewer distractions. I call my dog, make a lot of noise, move around a lot, and try to be really interesting to my dog. Sometimes, I run in the opposite direction, which will often cause a dog to chase us.

When my dog comes, I make a very big deal out of it and reward him with high priority treats as well as his favorite game. Once I have a solid recall in low distraction places, then I slowly increase the challenge. Using a long-line can also help with recall. Dogs that are independent and have high prey drive will be more difficult to train. Dogs that are more people focused will be easier to train because they will more naturally give us their attention.

I do have a question and I know this is quite an old article. My dog listens quite well, but when he sees another dog he does not care what anyone says or yells. He'll run from me and the more I yell the more he doesn't care.

When he comes to me 10 minutes later am I supposed to give him a cookie and praise him? Because I have done that without much success. Yes he comes back but he knows that he'll get a cookie after he's had his fun either way, sop why come back immediately?