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Originally Posted by race29
Our trainers explained it to us this way... how does inflicting pain on anything...dog or human help correct their behavior...it might stop it for a time being but you are trying to stop the behavior by associating the behavior with pain.... that is more likely to cause the animal to become more aggressive.... what do you when something causes you pain... by rewarding the dog for good behavior you are enforcing that good behavior....in the early stages if we didn't like a behavior or he didn't stop he was put in his crate with the command of time out...he will now put himself in his crate when told time out...gives him a break...and by the way...they also told us that dogs don't remember for more than a few minutes what they've done so ifyou dont catch them in the act it's too late to address.... so in return time out is only for a few minutes...it's the repetion of the action that teaches them.... sometimes he'll come right back out adn do it again and back in time out he goes....it doesn't take many time to realize the result of his action...he loves stealing socks....so that always resulted in a time out...he will do it occasionally now but just if he really wants my attention because he knows i'll go after it but he ends up in time out...he wanted my attention so by putting him in time out he didn't get my attention he got solitary..lol...anyway not a professional but I've learned alot with this dog.....
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I can definately see what your saying, but I guess its just different types of parenting in my opinion... kind of like parents that spank their kids vs parents that send to time out. Both effective(I know thats arguable) but different styles. Im not saying beat/shock them for everything they do because usually a stern tone will do the trick, but thats what Ive seen to be effective for immidiate corrections. Im willing to take the time and train them correctly or seek help, but the collar is in place for immidiate corrections.