Comments on: Dog Discipline – Hit, Spank, Slap!

By: Lyle Gorch

Lyle Gorch — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:38:29 +0000

My friend used to strike his dog when it fouled the kitchen floor. It never learnt not to, and when I suggested he should use voice commands my friend told me I was wrong. When I showed him, and his wife (after he hit the dog again)their dog training book said not to’even raise your hand’ they said I was wrong and the book meant new born puppies. I showed it didn’t but they were quite rude and said the book MEANT puppied but forgot to print it!! I think they had more issues than their dog! Sadly, their dog was left behind a barrier and, poorly trained, it tried to jump the barrier and injured itself. It died the next day.

By: shibashake

shibashake — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:51:39 +0000

i really hate when he growls over food

That sounds like a food aggression issue. This often happens when a dog makes the wrong association between people and resources. What works best with my dogs is to teach them that people are the source of resources, rather than the source of negative things. My Shiba Inu is a stubborn, dominant, and difficult dog to train. I started with aversive techniques, mostly collar corrections, but that only made him more aggressive. There are many studies that show that hitting and other pain based techniques are risky and can worsen a dog's behavior especially in the long-term. Here is one. After I stopped using pain based aversive techniques and switched to controlling my dog's resources, things improved significantly with my Shiba Inu.

By: Jefferson Faudan

Jefferson Faudan — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:54:37 +0000

it really depends on the dog i should say… the rest of my dogs can understand a “STOP IT!” except for this one single dog that feels he is alpha which i really hate when he growls over food, over being near his space etc that often can cause fights and the sad thing is, the four other dogs don’t fight back to give him his own dose of medicine… so i feel that i have to interfere when it gets really worse… i have 5 dogs and the 4 other dogs get together well… but the fifth, hardly… sometimes hitting a dog is necessary but doesn’t mean you have to do it always… they’re like people in some ways, some says scolding your kid should be in a conversational manner and some understands and do not repeat it, but some kids needs to be slapped to learn their lesson…

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:08:22 +0000

I read your article with great interest and I would like to quote it in my term paper on animal abuse. I’d like to bring in the negative effects of the aversive obedience training as an example of how poor education on dog training may lead to unconscious active cruelty toward dogs.
The only problem with that quote is, I’d need a name for the Blog’s owner, and it has to be a real name. Could you tell me by email so I can put your quote into the paper?
Thanks,
Stefan

By: shibashake

shibashake — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:55:19 +0000

Dear Michelle, In terms of fear aggression, what has worked best with my dogs is to help them re-associate the fearful stimulus to something positive. For example, my Husky Shania, was fearful of the garbage truck. It is big and makes a lot of noise. Therefore, I slowly desensitized her to it. Here is a bit more on dealing with fearful dogs. This section deals with people desensitization. Based on what I have read, we can also appear less intimidating to our dogs by bending down so that we are not looming over them. Also no eye-contact, especially stares, which can also be intimidating. As described in the article above, using physical force has a high risk of making a dog even more fearful, causing submissive urination, and possibly worsening the fear aggression. Here is a bit more on dog obedience training.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:00:38 +0000

My 4 year old Yorkie is new to us 6 months ago. Over this time we have discovered she must have been previously beaten by a male. She has a bad habit at biting my husband and only him when she has done something bad and sometimes even if she hasn’t. It seems like she does this out of fear or aggression. He has tried to approach her more carefully but he is a big guy and I think that really intimidates her. His approach to discipline is to hit her when she has been bad and then he sends her to her bed. I grab her muzzle tightly and say bad girl. I have had absolutely no issues with myself or anyone else but him getting bitten by her. Recently she has even started to yelp or poop and pee when he scares her or makes her nervous. My husband says if it doesn’t stop then he will be getting rid of her because he won’t put up with it. I on the other hand want to find what the problem is and fix it, because other than this problem she is the perfect dog for us. Please help I don’t know what else to do. Michelle

By: shibashake

shibashake — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:41:34 +0000

Hello Samantha,
Some things that helped with my Shiba Inu-
1. Establish a very fixed schedule. In this way, Shiba Sephy knew exactly what to expect and when.
2. Plenty of exercise and activities. Sephy is more relaxed after he is well exercised.
http://shibashake.com/dog/hyperactive-dogs-how-to-calm-a-hyper-dog-or-hyper-puppy
http://shibashake.com/dog/dog-play-fun-games-to-play-with-your-dog-or-puppy
3. Get everybody in the house involved with feeding and training. In this way, Sephy bonded with everyone in the family and is calm as long as someone is around.
4. Desensitize Sephy to my leaving ritual.
http://shibashake.com/dog/separation-anxiety-dog-why-how-reduce-dog-stress#desensitize

By: Samantha

Samantha — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:02:04 +0000

Our new dog buster is a three year old mastiff cross ridgeback and has bad anxiety when i leave.whenever i leave my partner and son can still be here but my parnter said he goes into a panic when i leave but watches my partner leave every morning and when we are home and all out back he has to keep finding me to stay calm if i’m not out there and walk out he’s sttaight to my side which is not a bad thing but need to stop him jumping fence or partner said he has to go for his own safety and we are trying by making fence bigger between front and back yard but it’s already 6 foot high. PLZ HELP I DON’T WANNA LOSE HIM OR HAVE TO GIVE HIM UP. any advice welcome.

By: shibashake

shibashake — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:11:45 +0000

Here are some of my experiences with Shiba Sephy in terms of taking stuff out of his mouth-
http://shibashake.com/dog/resource-guarding-shiba-inu

In terms of biting, this was what I did-
http://shibashake.com/dog/puppy-biting-how-to-stop-puppy-biting#timeout

Here are more of my experiences with Sephy-
http://shibashake.com/shiba-inu-tips-information-care

By: Filip

Filip — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:12:16 +0000

Hey guys,

i just wanted to ask you what to do with my Shiba inu( 6 months old), i am new at this. He can be good sometimes, and obey, but sometimes he does some really bad things, like, biting us when we try to take some trash out of his mouth. And yea, when he sees us when we get home from work, he jusmps on us, all happy and stuff, but he always opens his mouth like he wants to bite us. TNX in advance.