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Originally Posted by yorkiepuppie  thank you for the info about the pain med help with healing. i didn't know that.
yes, i think its bad to use pain as a teaching method.
and just because they have one part of their body designed so that their moms can carry them by their necks doesnt mean they aren't sensitive to pain.
little baby milu wines all the time if something hurt her. so i feel that they are sensitive to pain.
i love my milu so much, i cannot imagine putting a bark collar on her!
the key is to work with them on the "speak" and "quiet" commands - which i should be working with milu on as well, i haven't done it yet because she is not a barker. |
You got it is designed for Mom to carry them not humans and even moms can scruff a pup wrong and hurt it. Not something to be done lightly and in many cases the mother dogs has more then the scruff in its mouth but all or part of the back.. its a whole body carry not just scruff.
Scruffing is for the kill.. you all pretty much seen a dog shake something to snap it, That snap or scruff shake is to kill.
Now shh and quiet works on dogs that are not reactive and more sometimes must happen on dogs that explode so like everything it depends on just what the dog is made of.
JL