I'd like to thank you all for your input. I feel terribly bad because I think I explained myself incorrectly about spanking my dog. I did not mean the literal translation of "spanking" like you do a child of yours. There are sometimes he’ll get a little whip on the back, but never a true “spanking”. Trust me he gets treated like a KING. With that regard, past experience with dogs have shown me that form of punishment does not solve repeated bad behavior. You are absolutely right that by the time we get home he probably has no clue what he did wrong. But the times we do get home and he has torn something up we immediately know before we even walk through the door because he has his tail down. When he has not torn anything up he is as excited to see you as ever. So, he absolutely knows when he has done something wrong and that is the part we are having trouble with. Even though he knows it just doesn't stop him when were gone for awhile. Curiosity, Curiosity is the only thing that can explain it. After all, male dogs are very curious animals!!
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