Is it ok to spank your dog?

hayley018

For those of you who gave nice advice thank you. I came on here to learn things and to become a better dog owner.

 For those of you who say things like 'Ugh' and 'Umph' and are rude and sarcastic, whats the point in replying? Really you make me so mad!!! Are you trying to scare people away? Geez.

 And whoever said they dont like the work 'spank' really was that post even needed? Who cares if you like the word or not.

For the record, I would use spanking with my children (if I ever have any), I was brought up in a strict english boarding school and in a strict swiss boarding school. I left school in 2004 and until then had always been punished physically. his is completely legal and certainly helped me to learn disciplin etc. I guess this is another reason I didn't think anything of it with the dogs. I do realise now however, that sometimes it does not really have a purpose with the dogs...

 Thanks to the patient kind people who really are trying to help others

Not a big deal.  I have two Jack Russel Terriers and they are constantly in need of reinforcement, have had plenty of training but their nature is to be high strung.  Talk is cheap, but when it comes down to it, about the only thing that will get my dogs to stop flipping out when someone comes over is to give them a little pat on the rump.  It doesn't phase them but they know they're behaving badly and this stops them and lets them know that they're bad.  I only do it when they in the middle of the act and then they know they're misbehaving.  I would not ever strike them though on the head.  That's something that could create hand-shy issues.  Otherwise, they receive plenty of love and attention and reinforced training.  Ce le ve.  Some people may disagree but I assure you most of them don't own two young JRT's.  What works for some may not work for others.

This is a four year old thread and I'm sure I responded four years ago, however......

Is it ok to beat your spouse?  To brutalize your child?  Spanking, or otherwise striking a dog is no less offensive to me.

For many years I lived with SIX German Shepherds.  On the rare occasions that they had a tussle, no amount of slapping would have mattered.  Once they are engaged they enter a totally different mind set.  Slapping or punching or any kind of physical aggression on the part of the human is simply an invitation for that dog to began to fight with the human.

At this moment, I feel like perhaps this thread was revived to bait some of us, and if that's the case, I've certainly taken the bait.  But I can not let pass that dogs know that they are behaving badly.  That's a human concept, not a dog one.