For housetraining purposes spanking is a BAD idea. The dogs can't relate them peeing on your carpet to you spanking them. It just makes them have negative feels towards you.
For behavioral reasons, my vet said it's ok to give them a little tap under their chin that suprises them if they are biting. Another yt-er posted on here on another thread that for barking purposes she'll kind of pick up her dog by the harness and give him a little shake like his mother might have done.
That being said, my dog doesn't respond to any of this. It just makes him angry.. not sad or cowering, straight up MAD. So we don't do it. We will raise our voices at him though or walk away from him and that seems to do the trick. |