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Originally Posted by This Is Sparta  i dont understand why you guys are comparing a canine to yourselves as human beings. OBVIOUSLY if i hit you youre gonna react and get mad and all that other nonsense you guys are saying. BUT if I give a little spanking to a 2 to 8 year old human that human child is not going to react like you adults, that human child is going to understand that he did something bad, so please stop saying how you would obviously react if i would hit you, because you are not a dog and you never will be.
and believe me, ive never heard of a human child (including myself) react to a gentle spanking in anger and hitting back and whatever you guys wanna do back to me.
and im sorry for the people who got abused, but thats what it was "abuse" a spanking is a spanking, HUGE difference. if your parents abused you then you dont really know what a spanking is. |
Wow, you really don't want to learn how to train this puppy or take any advice at all. Not really sure why you would want a dog if it causes you so much distress. 4 month old puppies aren't defiant, they are puppies.
My dad was an old school trainer too...papers, slippers, hand...one thing all his dogs had in common was random aggression. They were super well trained but every once in a while...they got aggressive when someone other than my dad tried to train them. Aggression breeds aggression.
I am looking forward to your postings a year from now (Vet bills for damages caused, aggression issues, shyness and anxiety in little Sparta)
Instead of lashing out saying what you're doing is right...maybe take some advice from those who have dogs that are not defiant and don't use your old school training routines.
If you insist on using physical punishment you need to know the "right" way to do it...although I disagree with it completely! However, there seems to be no changing your mind.
Here are some tips and some advice:
Using Physical Punishments in Training Your Dog
Again, I am totally against it but if you're insistent on it you may as well know what to do and what not to do.
I apologize to other YT members for posting this. And for those of you looking at this thread after getting a new puppy...do not use physical punishment for your dog...there are a million better ways to train an animal.