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Originally Posted by TaylorWoods  OK, I will apologise. I do have some bad feelings i dont deny that. I have a right to my opinion but for this I will shut my mouth and give you the benefit of the doubt because the more I read the more I can see you are trying to rectify the problem. So I hope you accept my sincere apology, you would swear it is monday! I dont know you so im wrong and YES, you are right to come here and seek advice and I got fiesty about it before reading every post which was wrong of me to jump to conclusions and comment - My mom calls it foot and mouth disease 
BUT I dont like even the slightest hint of an animal being hit though and Im not going to condone that and I really hope you never do it to her again. And my math has been off since school, so 16 or 20 makes no difference to me  you can still do serious damage.
Have a moderator delete my posts if you want to - this is why i came off these forums because I get too heated!!!!!
OK, so let me say this: Your dog is (A) set in her ways, probably from being spoiled and allowed to behave her own way over the years by your partner and (B) dominates you, your house and everything else around her. fear has a lot to do with this, so I only ask you never hit her. Then i will not say a word and remove the thread from my list and BDog and you can sort yourselves out.
I wish you all the best in whatever final decision you end up making and I do sincerely commend you for your efforts and apologise once last time. |
I'm not discouraging anyone from their right to an opinion. You can even voice it all you want, but if you have wrong assumptions about me, I would think those reading would encourage me to correct those assumptions if they are wrong. To not do this would be a great disservice to those who patron the forums and carry those wrong assumptions or ideas of who I am and how I'm treating this dog.
I might not wish to share names and professions, but those who know me personally (not many here), they understand my reluctance.
I'm not here to bicker or argue, and it's been tough not just throwing my hands in the air and storming out...but who would that be hurting the most?? Bdog...that's who.
There are many reasons why we are all here on these forums. Training, stories, progress, sympathy for the losses and encouragements - but the common theme is we care about these little fuzz butts. Yours, mine (my fiances, but I've adopted her so I'm going to refer to her in a possessive context) and those out there that don't have human representation here.
I see a repeated pattern here that new readers make it into the thread for the first three pages and see the thread unraveling and don't make it to where the dialogue starts to straighten out and be productive. I would start a new thread, but I look at it this way...it weeds out the people that don't have the conviction to read everything and form their opinion based on everything said. Second is I'd have to answer questions and I'd do so honestly and if the hitting came up, I think it would all start over again.
I won't be doing any smacking or spanking on Bdog....I can't say the same for momma (the good kind of course....hehehe). I made a promise to another patron on YT, I made the same promise to Bdog and her momma...and I make the same promise to you. However, she did just about get me about 5 minutes ago. I went to say goodbye to my fiance as she was sleeping - I just pulled an all nighter finalizing my presentation due in half hour. I went to take Bdog out and apparently she was comfortable and when I went to pick her up, she nipped. I put my hat over her head to block her jaws and picked her up and had a low voice talk into her eyes. Then set her down and put the leash on her and took her outside - speak at the door, sit at the other doors...peed and pooped outside, got the praises and pets with a treat followed when we sat at all the doors and got back inside.
We are working on it, things are going well.