April 20, 2011
My dog wouldn't listen to my commands and started growling at me, so I hit him with a stick. What are your thoughts on this situation?
Full Question:
Hello,I am contacting you asking for your opinions on this situation. If you could I would appreciate it.
Baseball has been on around here where I work with my dog at. So I decided to pick another area. Went to it with a friend of mine, got out, let my dog off leash to smell, pee... Cause he is nosey. After a couple of minutes, put him on leash and started the heel... I noticed he wasn't giving it his all. Came to a stop, he didn't sit by my side, so I told him to (he knows this). After a couple minutes, I told him to down (again, something he knows) and he didn't. I leaned over and pointed to the ground and said it again, and he come at me...snarling, growling, and snapping. So I popped him, which did nothing but fuel the fire, so there happened to be a nice size stick by me. I told him to down, he growled, I got him with the stick, he came back for more. It lasted about 5 minutes of popping, snapping... it finally ended with him laying on the ground on his side still growling, but cringing, sporting a cut nose and swollen eye....
It hurt me to do this... But the bigger problem is that after all of this, it is like he didn't understand what the ass busting was over.... he was nervous, and didn't want to be anywhere around me for the rest of the day... What do you think?
Thanks,
Laney
Ed's Answer:
You ask what I think? I think you’re stupid.
These days I seldom tell people they are stupid, but what you did was dumb!
Your dog is clueless about what you expected. The only thing you said in this email that had a lick of sense to it was, you're right – the dog did not understand why you beat him. The dog came after you out of “fight or flight.” Look it up because I doubt you know what it means.
Find another home for this poor dog because what you did should have got you beat with a stick and not the dog.
Regards,
Ed Frawley
These days I seldom tell people they are stupid, but what you did was dumb!
Your dog is clueless about what you expected. The only thing you said in this email that had a lick of sense to it was, you're right – the dog did not understand why you beat him. The dog came after you out of “fight or flight.” Look it up because I doubt you know what it means.
Find another home for this poor dog because what you did should have got you beat with a stick and not the dog.
Regards,
Ed Frawley
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