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Originally Posted by matese  OP's mother is a diabetic, the 13 month old pup is now a danger to the mom, action must be taken quickly or he will be rehomed. When Cody was in obedence training the trainer used the spray bottle on him,it made him worse, aggresive when he wasn't an aggressive dog. If it were my mother with this condition, I would have had a dog behaviourist in already and in training. |
There are ways to use the squirt bottle and ways not to. Like every training method it is about how you are doing it and it can become a negative tool if not used properly. I heard one women say a trainer would squirt her dog when it would not do what the trainer was wanting and in that case it was not the proper way to use it. I don't see the use for a spray bottle in obedience training. Everything was tried with Callie and she would bite every ones pants and shoes and even on the stairs so it became a very dangerous situation so we opted to try the squirt bottle and it worked great. It is only used at this point when the two little ones get to rough when rough housing but most of the times unless its really bad I redirect them into a sit and look and so on. All tools can be used wrong and be dangerous or cause problems but you can use a squirt bottle in a proper way. I personally would try that first before shelling out a lot of money for a behaviorist which cost even more then trainers but that's my opinion and I don't have a lot of extra money right now where I could do that kind of stuff unless it were a last ditch thing.