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Originally Posted by sylvan Children are children and dogs are dogs. You certainly cannot use the same training methods on canines as you use on humans and I would not compare the two.. Dogs trained using intimidation tactics are not dogs I would ever trust in the long run. It may have 'worked' for you, but a fearful dog can become an aggressive dog given an unforseen trigger. Ask anyone that has tried to retrain any of the many dogs that end up in rescue due to the use of these types of 'training' techniques. |
So would you spank a child but not spank a dog? I'd rather spank a dog than a child. I mean a child is a human for crying out loud.
Yes you can compare the two to a degree. Example: Potty training. When potty training a dog or teaching a kid to use a toilet instead of diapers, are you going to beat them if they dont do it? No. Its better to use positive reinforcement. Another Example: If a dog tries to bite you are you going to do nothing about it? Sometimes putting him in a cage or timeout isn't going to solve it. Now if a child does something that they know is wrong, is it OK to spank them, but not a dog when they do something that they know is wrong?
There is no need to put the words work and train in quotes because it has worked as a discipline method, NOT training like I said. And as for training, please tell me when and where I said I train my dogs by spanking them. I remember clearly stating I do NOT train them by stating them, so if you somehow misinterpretted that, I hope you understand now. Also I would like to add that smacking (not hard enough to hurt, but hard enough to startle) is OK to do in cases when the dog is ignoring it's commands, disobeying the owner when it knows better, or is trying to act like it is the master. My mom was taught this from a licensed dog trainer. Once again, I am talking about bigger dogs, as for smaller dogs I won't speak for.
As for the fearfulness, a smack to show the dog who is the master will not make your dog fearfull. Beating your dog? Of course that will, but that is not what I'm talking about.