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Originally Posted by YorkieMother  I would fire that vet on the spot !!!!!! There is never any reason to be abusive to a dog. Then I would report his butt to the vet board, and the SPCA.
That is old school thinking by a vet with no understanding of learning theroy or dog behavior
One sure fast way to break a dogs soul is to do that.
Why do that when in the real truth of it alpha rolls are donw in play by one wolf to anther and or dog to another and in a true fight they do not alpha roll they go for the throat and kill.
Flat out that abusive and wrong. You never hold a human child down and shove your fingres down their throut unless you needed to get up poison.
Why is it then acceoptable to do this to a living breathing soul packing being that learns in the same manner as a human child just has a differnt language.
Dogs, yorkies are to tiny to be pinning and big dogs well just are to big.
Sure fire way to get oneself bite is to pull that on a dog that going to look at you and go we are done and your dead.
Do that to my dog and that is sure what would happen.
Pull it on a dog fear fear concerns and your going to break it soul and be dealing with a messed up dog for the rest of it life.
Ask switch from what it has to something of higher value a food treat or a play thing or your love. Take the item show the dog make that item a more intresting thing and switch it.
Teach drop it, leave it and mine.
TEACH not abuse.
JL |
I think YorkieMother's point is heartfelt, but I think she overstates things a bit. While I agree that we should approach our dogs first with love and loving discipline (i.e., training by using treats and affection as motivators), there are valid situations where the dominance methods I described above should be used as a last resort.
Dogs are not children. They cannot be reasoned with (but sometimes neither can kids!), and you need to reach them on a level they can understand. Some dogs take to positive training well, and that's all they need to be well behaved. However, when a dog gets possessive and violent, as it appears the original poster's dog has, and all the affection and love in the world isn't going to correct his bad behavior, it can be time to use physical (but not abusive) correction to break the dog out of its aggression.