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Good post! And people this is a PUPPY, not a red zone dog FFS.

Originally Posted by theporkieyorkie

Caesar Milan is very controversial in the dog training world. When I was growing up and enrolled in obedience with my dogs, we used choke chains, we forced our dogs butts down to get them to sit and applied pressure at their shoulder blades to teach them to lay down.

Since then, that style of training has totally went out of favor for a more humane style...I would say way more along the lines of Victoria Stillwell, than Ceasar Milan...and it works too. Both of my dogs have learned how to sit and lay down without me touching them or forcing them to do it. I've never used corporal punishment, despite people telling me I need to get after my dogs more to get them to behave.


I have a red zone yorkie. He's a fear biter, he's possessive aggressive and he also is gets aggressive from excited energy. Frankly, in my case, I don't think hitting my dog or turning it on it's side like Caesar does would do squat for my dog except for make it scared of me when i am probably the only one he fully trusts.

If it were me and my puppy and it were biting at my legs or getting rough, I would simply ignore it or put it away in it's pen until it calmed down. If you put him on your lap and he starts biting at your hands, squeal "ouch" really loud in a high pitched voice and put him down on the ground and ignore him....If he's biting at your legs, say "ouch" and pick him up and put him in his crate until he settles down. He is used to playing roughly with his siblings the way he is playing with you....and if he gets too rough with his brothers or sisters, they squeal in a similar manner so he should understand what a high pitched "ouch" means. Ultimately, the pup wants your attention and affection and if he learns that biting gets him none, the hope is that he will stop doing it.

I've watched a lot of Ceasars shows and I've never seen him spank a dog. Keep in mind, she is also dealing with a 10 week old yorkie puppy. I can't imagine how little that is....but I am guessing it pretty much would be like the equivalent of spanking a newborn baby.