I can honestly imagine how frustrated this OP is.....trying to please the pup and the fiance too. His frustration is boiling over with little Mia, because Mia is the one making all the noise and keeping the house awake all night. I used the word "beat" because that is what it was in Mias mind....not a pat or a tap or a little sweet smack....Mia is taking offense at the way she is being treated....Poor OP is really trying to acclimate poor Mia to a new family situation and I am certain he is frustrated....and just wait until "fiance" starts chewing on his ear about his little Mia....he is REALLY going to be frustrated.....and I do want to point out one little thing, some of us down here in the South refer to "beat" as a spanking...like when OUR mother used to say, "I am going to beat your butt", you knew that meant spanking and not drawn and quartered or publically given 40 lashes with a wet leather whip! When she was going to do THAT, she would tell us, "I am going to tear your a$$ up!" And it really is easy to swat, swipe, tap, pat, smack, spank, ...whatever the politically correct term is.....a little Yorkie butt and cause damage to little hips and hind legs, UNINTENTIONALLY. So I want to make it absolutely clear to the OP, before any well intentioned people start disecting out words and building a fire under OP's butt with them, I was not accusing him of animal abuse by imprisoning Mia, or beating Mia, etc. I just want to ask him to please dont repremand the little dog with "laying his hands in a threatening manner" on her little butt. Is THAT politically acceptable? |