Yesterday I was in a friend's house with my male 8 month old GSD. He has a GSD as well, and they get along great. So we leave them in his back yard while we go to the kitchen to look for a couple of beers (must have been 8-10 mins) and when we get back I notice my dog wasn't with his dog playing. So I check it out and he had been the whole time eating out of the big kibble bag. Man was I pissed!

I mean, I take the extra effort and spend the extra buck to feed him raw food and he goes crazy for a bag of kibble (Pedigree to make things worse)? I beat the living crap out of him. First time I hit him with my hand. He didn't have the prong collar on, so I couldn't correct him properly. After about 10 mins I put kibble in front of him again and at first he hesitated, but then put some in his mouth. I repeated the treatment while making sure he understood he was getting hit because of the kibble.

Anyway, I'm not here for you to judge me for hitting my dog. I just wanted to share with you the after effects a single kibble meal had on my dog. He's been raw fed since day 1. He hardly drinks water. I mean, after a walk he has a couple of sips from the bowl, or after he eats... but last night when we got home the dog chugged the bowl of water, and then asked for more. He drank the whole bowl again! Of course, that translated in him waking me up at midnight to go pee, and after we got back, he drank from the bowl again!

This morning he drank some more water (usually never drinks in the morning) even before going outside to pee. When we got outside, I was paying attention to his stools. So he goes and his stool looks pretty good, with texture and nice color, and I'm saying "hey, it wasn't so bad". Yeah right, that was the rabbit he had at 3PM. Further ahead he went again and this time is was kibble shit. That light brown stool with no texture at all. Oh, and it was a lot too.

So, I had to let that out. He's not eating today. Oh, and a short message for those of you that feed kibble. STOP NOW!

You are the one who deserved the beating. You are at fault for not supervising the dog, and the dog did not do anything wrong - just acted in accordance with nature. Don't try to avoid taking responsibility by saying "I'm not here to have you judge me for beating my dog." I think a lot of people here will judge you for that, and the verdict will not be kind.

Your dog deserves better. Please try to understand your dog cannot have understood why what it did was "wrong", and why it was getting beaten. You have probably ruined any relationship of trust you may have had with your dog. Sorry, but you need to grow up or give the dog to someone who is more mature than you.

Anita
Well said, A complete Bully, and theres a lot of them about

Edited by Steve Patrick (09/03/2007 10:35 AM)
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You are one miserable POS, Joe Buhdee.

This isn't the first post you've made about hitting dogs. I would rather see a well-treated kibble fed dog than a raw fed abused one.

 Quote: Joe Buhdee

I beat the living crap out of him.

 Quote: Joe Buhdee

Anyway, I'm not here for you to judge me for hitting my dog.

Too late.

Joe, you don't deserve to have a dog! If this a a demonstration of how well you understand and treat your dog on a regular basis, you should have your dog taken away from you. Your dog was just being a dog when he got into the kibble and, horrors, he didn't stop to think about how much you were spending on his raw diet. Wake up!!!!! Either find this poor dog a new and better home, or you need to get yourself to a dog trainer to learn how to treat your dog better.

Elaine and the herd

I agree with every post after the first one; I'm locking the thread and Ed Frawley can do as he sees fit.

You were 100% at fault. 100%.

You beat your 8-month-old dog because you weren't supervising him. He did what dogs do, which is to eat food that's there to eat.

I REALLY hope (but I probably expect too much) that you read every response to your post, because every single one is correct.

Mr Buhdee will not be posting with us for some time to come. There are plenty of web boards where people can discuss dumb ass methods of training dogs - which describes exactly what he did.