Dog owners!

No personal attacks from me. I'm done.

This is my first semi-annual dog bark debate so I'm not sure on the timing. Seems this debate has turned to personal attacks pretty quickly, not even to ten pages yet.

Dog Folks wrote:
I am glad you are so confident.

Oh ya? It sounds to me like you are jealous. Not glad.

You may not trust your yappy chihuahua, but I have complete faith in my obedient English Setters. Like I said; there's no need for me to post a note on my door.

Please keep your name-calling to yourself because, if you don't, I may have to pull real hard on your leash to tighten that collar around your neck.

Bruce

Raften wrote:
What's the point eric, to cause pain and abuse an animal? Training my A**, it is abuse.

I said I don't own a dog, not that I never owned a dog.

When I had my "Tramp", we went to doggie training school. The first thing they had us get was a choke collar. At the time, I thought that was cruel, but after yanking on his leash one or twice when he got out of line, he behaved and he didn't have to wear the collar ever again. A voice command and the threat of pain from the collar, which he never wore again, was sufficient. I would think a bark collar would work much the same way. After getting zapped once or twice, I would think you could put the collar on Fifi without batteries and she wouldn't bark.

Eric

GordonThree wrote:
then it's your responsibility to go somewhere else so you're not annoyed. Get a different site in the CG

Spoken like a thoughtless dog owner:(

nomad297 wrote:
You train your dogs your way and I'll train my dogs my way. Either way, they're trained to our best ability. My dogs don't bark unless I let them -- that's what I trained them to do. I don't need to leave a note on my door because I am confident in my training and in my dogs.

Bruce

Train however you prefer. That is your freedom.

I am glad you are so confident. The courts are full of dog owners that say, "my dog never did that before."


If you think your training is fool proof then you sir, are the fool.

Raften wrote:
What's the point eric, to cause pain and abuse an animal? Training my A**, it is abuse.

It is not pain and it is not abuse if used properly. If it was pain and abuse, it would be illegal, right? It's not illegal.

Bruce

What's the point eric, to cause pain and abuse an animal? Training my A**, it is abuse.

Immediate fix? Don't leave the dogs alone on that trip and then train for the next trip.

I hope that answers the OP's question no matter how the question is interpreted to mean. GEEZ I was wrong thinking that part was obvious.

There are also many resources that the owners could utilize to start training immediately. That very trip. Actually, there would be no better time or place to start.

I have posted the basics of said training here many times.

Any professional dog trainer will tell you that in all reality, dog training is really the art of training the human owners. Most dogs are fairly easy to train, but the human owner....well that is another story.