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Originally Posted by Annie&Badger 100% ^
I can't believe that anyone would advise smacking a dog, or a child for that matter (for what it's worth, my mother used to give me the odd disciplinary 'tap' which resulted in my being hospitalised on two separate occasions. So please don't even bother telling me that's an effective way to get any kind of result)
Dogs only live to do one thing: make you happy. If you understand that, you're all the way to getting them to do whatever you want. If Badger does something I don't want him to do, I just say "No" in a firm voice. As soon as he stops doing it (and it must be immediately), I go "Good boy! Mummy's Angel! Good Boy!". That way he knows immediately what is expected of him and he's only too delighted to carry on doing the 'right' thing. Sure he has the odd 'mistake' or 'accident' but don't we all
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I'm sorry to hear that your mom ended up putting you in the hospital...now that is whats called abuse, and was not a tap. What you have to undrstand though is that not everyone who "taps" their children and/or dogs are putting them in the hospital, leaving bruises or even redmarks, and not leaving emotional scars. I was spanked as a child, not abused and I'm not scarred from it. So from your case, it might not have been effective. I'm a firm believer that there are acceptions and each case is different, therefore I'm not going to say "well this works for me so it works for everyone, etc." because I know things aren't like that.
And your lucky your dog listens when you say "NO" in a firm voice. Mine on the other hand will completely ignore the command.
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Anyways, I'm done with all this. Alls I want to say is that, in a PM someone told me it sounded like I smack my dog for everything, which I don't. I don't need to sit here and say why I smack my dog, cuz frankly it's no ones business. I know I'm not a dog abuser, but you guys make it sound like it's soo wrong to hit a dog for ANY reason, but tell me, if a dog tried to attack another human being would you not hit it? Would you just say "NO?" and when it stops say "Good boy?" I highly doubt it, and if you would, you have issues. So like I said before Im not telling anyone how to raise their dog, so please give me that same respect. I have never seen people get so upset over something that they really don't know anything about (the situation with my dog) and be so harsh. So like I said before, can't we just agree to disagree?