Poll: Is hitting your pet the right way to punish it?
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i mean, sure, it's a viable method of conditioning but there doesn't seem to be any faster way to make them hate/turn on you, other than withholding food for days... unless you feel like waking up in the middle of the night with your once-puppy-now-attack-dog chewing on you, find some other, more psychological way of conditioning them...
My nan raises Dalmations for a living (and has done for 30 years) and she told me that the best way is to tap the dog firmly on the nose, enough for them to recoil in shock but no harm done. Beating is wrong.
That's what I did. If that failed, then I'd give a slightly harder tap. I always did it on their side towards the back. Never near the face. I'd also tell them no in a loud voice, but not shouting loud, just normal loud. The few times those methods did not work, I would put them in their travel cage/dog house, and only let them out to eat/poop.Marter said:
It worked for the most part(my chihuahua/Pomeranian had a problem with peeing. could never get her to understand that the kitchen floor was not a toilet).
But to beat them until they're scared of you or anyone else? I could never do that.
That's just mentally scarring and ruining your pet.
If you want your pet to grow up as mean as you treated it go ahead.
If you want your pet to grow up as mean as you treated it go ahead.
The question remains, how effective is hitting in general as in applied to all situations, your kids, random strangers, and what not.
Fear is quite the motivator, it leads to the dark side and all.
The thing is, you can still get the same effect without striking with pets. A bottle of water to spray at a cat or dog, a high pitched electronic device triggered by you, or even in extreme cases shock collars.
Now, I am not frr any of these methods. However, when you are dealing with pets, the English language tends to fall on deaf ears. Sure, they might understand their name when you call it enough times. Sure, they might learn the word Good when things are going well, and they learn NO and BAD and associate it with the negative reinforcement. But short of that, you can not explain to the animal "Mister Fluffers, would you kindly stop pissing behind the TV please?"
So there in is the problem, if you can not communicate, only physical interactions become the speech. But would you rather you pet not piss on the carpet because he respects you or because he is afraid you will beat the shit out of him?
Fear is quite the motivator, it leads to the dark side and all.
The thing is, you can still get the same effect without striking with pets. A bottle of water to spray at a cat or dog, a high pitched electronic device triggered by you, or even in extreme cases shock collars.
Now, I am not frr any of these methods. However, when you are dealing with pets, the English language tends to fall on deaf ears. Sure, they might understand their name when you call it enough times. Sure, they might learn the word Good when things are going well, and they learn NO and BAD and associate it with the negative reinforcement. But short of that, you can not explain to the animal "Mister Fluffers, would you kindly stop pissing behind the TV please?"
So there in is the problem, if you can not communicate, only physical interactions become the speech. But would you rather you pet not piss on the carpet because he respects you or because he is afraid you will beat the shit out of him?
My dog is one of those dogs that jumps on peoples laps, despite that fact that it's a medium sized dog. But we let it. And we love it.
And anyone who even thinks of hurting animals should be tortured and shot.
And anyone who even thinks of hurting animals should be tortured and shot.
hitting the dog, no. That just creates a scared animal.
what you should do is be assertive with your voice, make it low and forceful, much like how a dog barks at a pup, you can puncuate it with a tap on the nose or a click of your fingers. You need to think or how dogs behave, if a Alpha sees a member of the pack misbehaving they don't beat the crap out of him/her they'll bark and nip them, the nip doesn't hurt but it lets them know they've done wrong.
People who don't understand this shouldn't be allowed to own animals. Dogs work as dogs and they react as dogs do. you don't punish a dog like that. One day the dog will bite back and be completly in the right to tear the cunts throat out.
what you should do is be assertive with your voice, make it low and forceful, much like how a dog barks at a pup, you can puncuate it with a tap on the nose or a click of your fingers. You need to think or how dogs behave, if a Alpha sees a member of the pack misbehaving they don't beat the crap out of him/her they'll bark and nip them, the nip doesn't hurt but it lets them know they've done wrong.
People who don't understand this shouldn't be allowed to own animals. Dogs work as dogs and they react as dogs do. you don't punish a dog like that. One day the dog will bite back and be completly in the right to tear the cunts throat out.
I might whack me dog on its back legs if its being naughty or mischevious but I wouldn't beat it down and make it whimper and cry every time it sees me.
Hitting and animal is not only cruel is is also pointless. It is the owners fault when a dog misbehaves. They see you as the pack leader. You set the rules. For people who think that it's the only way to get them to learn you would be very wrong. Make a sharp pitch quick noise when they are about to do something wrong. Usually after the 3rd time they get it. This is the noise an alpha in the pack would use to convey anger to the dog but not a hostile anger a telling off anger. You have to get the balance right though, you a cannot make the sound weak but you cannot make it sound angry. It must be authoritative but not hostile.
When you get a dog you should go and learn how to take care of it. Those who can't look after a dog don't deserve one. Even more so when they beat them.
Report this guy to the authority's please.
When you get a dog you should go and learn how to take care of it. Those who can't look after a dog don't deserve one. Even more so when they beat them.
Report this guy to the authority's please.
No, you should never beat your dog, that's insanely cruel. Tap them on the nose if they crap on the carpet or chase after people or something, some slight negative reinforcement is all that's needed. Any more is animal cruelty.
Anyone that hits an animal for either punishment or out of anger is a very, very small person. Animals don't have the reasoning power to associate physical punishment with bad behavior. All you get by hitting an animal is a shy, timid and skiddish animal.
And you're worse for thinking that animals have no ability to reason and associate.Jimmyjames said:
...and I've never in my life hit an animal, so that rationale makes be a bad person how?twasdfzxcv said:
Yes it is ok to hit a dog or animal. Not to damage it or to hurt it usually(I say usually as it might attack someone unprovoked then it is time to take Rover out to the back yard with the old boomstick) and you should pet your animal too. So aslong as you don't hurt the animal I see no problem with it as punishment that and rubbing its nose in it and then cleaning the place with vinegar. So to reiterate very light tap that DOES NOT make the dog squeal yes complete beating that leaves the dog whimpering no.
So hitting animals makes one a bad person, but belittling animals' obvious abilities to reason and think is totally fine eh.Jimmyjames said: