that popo should get the chamber for that!

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Gonna grow pounds in my barn someday....

Disgusting human being

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currently growing: TGA/subcool jacks cleaner 2 aka
"The deuce", PI, KQf2

Grown:
Black domina, killa queen f2, purple Indica, Jacks cleaner 2, afrighani,

haha, what a happy dog

Ok that was some horrible shit.

I'd like to know what you guys consider abuse. Some people believe it is alright to physically discipline(not hang and kick) dogs in order to train them. Is it ok to hit them to teach them, or is it never alright to lay your hands on a dog if you're not petting them?

Just curious.

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Hey Mr. Carter, tell me, where have you been?

I've given my dog a light open handed slap on the snout. He's a knucklehead with selective hearing so on occasion he gets the snout tap with a firm "NO". It doesn't hurt him and he certainly doesn't yelp in pain.... in fact I think the verbal scolding hurts his feelings way more then the snout slap. For the most part he's a very well behaved dog and rarely requires any discipline at all.

There was only one time he got a heavy handed smack... and that was when he was still a puppy (about 1 & 1/2 years old) and he had a bone.... a friends kid was playing near him and bent down near the bone... Jack got territorial and growled at the child. I FLEW OUT OF MY CHAIR and gave him a HARD KNOCK to his head.. .he DID yelp.... I know it hurt him... and I verbally scolded him too. I will not tolerate that behavior from my dog. Let it go and dogs think it's ok and eventually .... a child will be bitten and possibly badly injured or killed.

My whole body was shaking when it happened and my b/f at the time was like "damn... I've never seen you snap like that"... and I did too. I did not feel bad about it later either. Needless to say.... my friend was happy to see I took her child's safety seriously. After that day... Jack has NEVER EVER growled when someone tries to take something away from him. I had my niece take stuff away from him as a test..... he does try to wrap his paws around his bones protectively... or pick it up and run away...... but he's never ever growled or acted aggressively since.

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Dogs are naturally physical animals, they fight for rank and you need to show a certain amount of aggressiveness for the bigger breeds or they'll think they're in charge (Alpha Dog). If you've got some teacup breed, then no, there's no reason to ever lay hands on your animal.

But nothing more than what you'd give to your children (a swat on the ass), maybe less the way some people treat their children.. Reserved for only the worst offenses; biting, IMO. Never for pooping/peeing/chewing shit up in the house, that's your fault.

yea man alil hit to train them but kicking the poor dog like that, and i'm a cat person but i felt so sorry for that dog, i hope that fat pig get his fucking ass kicked

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all dogs should be happy like the one above, happy lil fellow

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My dog is very smart, and I trained her with no hitting. Only thing I would do is tap her nose when she did something wrong. I could scream at my dog and it would scare her enough.

She is very nice, and I believe it is because I wouldn't allow anyone to tease her at all, and I did not hit her.

I can go on a walk with her and she doesn't need a leash or anything. She will just walk right with me. I think the tone of your voice has the most impact on training. Demand the dog to do it, don't ask it to do what you want. She knows I'm the boss, and will follow me around.

Here are things that she will do.

She wont touch my food EVER. If I leave food out somewhere low where she can get it she will not touch it.

She doesn't growl, or bite EVER not around food or anything like that.

I don't have to tie her up she just stays in the yard, or follows me around.

She knows everyones name in my house (even the cats), and will go find them if I tell her to.

Biggest thing is to think what the dog would understand. I hear people trying to talk to her like shes a person or some shit, and she can't understand 10 word sentence commands... I try to keep my commands short 1-2 words, and a hand signal.

That's what popped into my mind. Well said!