HITTING DOES NOT WORK

Yesterday was a busy day Lisa and I are involved in alot of different projects at the moment one of them being a safety awareness campaign for children and we are visiting the local schools to talk to the children about dogs and how to treat them . We are working on various articles and spent alot of time talking to our numerous clients. We met a new client who is picking up her new puppy on the tenth of April and pleasantly surprised her as to how effective behavioural work is. During our time talking to her about the successful ways to introduce a new puppy to the house and how to avoid problems arising. While talking I was observing her 12 year old German wire haired pointer who is a yodeler lol. During our time there I sent silent messages and before we left he just stopped yodeling even with all the people moving about and visitors to the house. I love to see someones jaw hit the floor in amazement lol.

however our day ended on a sad note Lisa received a call from a lady asking that I go meet her dog ......................nothing unusual there but then she asked if it was possible to get their dog to bond with her husband ..................still nothing unusual there then came the kicker she explained the reason for the bonding work their dog was weeing in the house ever since her husband had hit the dog....................................................................... I am a professional but I am also human . As nice as the lady was on the phone I could taste blood in my mouth from biting my tongue so hard.

FACT HITTING DOES NOT SOLVE A PROBLEM IT CREATES THEM A LESSON SOME PEOPLE I AM AFRAID TO SAY DO NOT LEARN UNTIL SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS.

What ever behaviour you are trying to deal with will either become worse or that behaviour will disappear and you will be presented with a number of others and when you have got to the stage where you have made your dog fearful of you one fear inducing event can cause your dog to lash out in an aggressive way because of fear. However it is not always the cruel people (the hitters ) who the dogs lash out at it can be some innocent guest who raises their hand in the wrong way or picks up the paper.

Well I will soon be meeting the little guy and working with him so that he can stop being afraid of the world and enjoy his life and EDUCATE! his owner that bullying and VIOLENCE are not the answer.

People if you do nothing else right do not communicate to your dogs that people are vicious and violent and that they need to fear us. Anyone with any thoughts of what we could do to cruel owners please contact me as Sadie and I are about to write a paper on the the law could be changed to safe guard people and work towards eliminating cruelty.