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Originally Posted by kalina82 I agree with Stacy. Your dog is not going to know why your hitting him and its just going to make him scared. Rubbing a puppy's nose in his pee or poop isn't going to make the puppy not go in the house anymore. Once the puppy has peed or pooped in the house he forgets he did it within seconds so if you punish him after he did it he is not going to know why you are punishing him and sticking his nose in poop. People think that dogs know when they did something bad, like pee in the house. Your dog is not reacting to you being mad about poop. Your dog is reacting to your body language and tone of voice. he doesn't know what your mad about or why your yelling at him. Using a loud angry voice and leaning into/over your dog is a sign of aggression and you are going to get a cowering scared reaction from the puppy. dogs are not people. They react differently then people and their mental capabilities are different. They can not associate you punishing and hitting them with newspaper with them pooping on the floor minutes or even seconds beforehand. they just know that mommy or daddy is mad and is hitting. This makes a scared and intimidated dog, who i wouldn't trust in the long run. There are many good books about dog behavior that you can pick up in barnes and noble that will teach you alot about training, a dogs learning ability, and dogs mental capabilities. If anyone would like the names of some that i've read please pm me if interested. |
Once again, when did I ever say to hit a dog as a training method? I did NOT mean it this way. I mean after the dog already knows right from wrong.
And when a dog goes potty in the house, they need to be showed what they did wrong, therefore you put it's nose up to what they did, dont put it IN the pee or poo though, that's just sick, but show them what they did. Then you can tell them "NO". From what your saying kinda makes sense, your on the right track, but from what we have learned from the dog training classes, you need to show them what is wrong. If I show my dog his potty in the house and then tell him NO or put him in the cage, (remember this is a dog that is potty trained) then he will know why I am upset with him.
I probably am younger than most of you on this board, but I have owned dogs my whole life, the only time I didnt have a dog was the 2month period from when we had to put one dog to sleep and were waiting for our new puppy to be ready to come home. For all of our dogs, if they dis-obey and we spank them, they have never became fearful. It shows them who their owner is. Also, like I said, we have taken our dogs to training classes, so it's not like we DONT know how to raise dogs.