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Originally Posted by Calin  Yeah, me too. But obviously, we don't know our own dogs. |
You may not, I don't know. What you have made abundantly clear is that you don't "get" how or why to use all of what your dog *is* to help her learn. Rather, you choose to just shut that part of her down and you will defend it to the death, for some reason.
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Originally Posted by Calin What I did was put squirt bottles in various places throughout the house. Then, if my pup nipped me, MY HUSBAND would squirt the pup in the butt from across the room. She would stop, look around all confused like, and then look over at my husband who would be looking in another direction like he wasn't even paying attention to us. She'd turn her attention back to me and I'd give her some commands real quick to redirect her.
When she nipped my husband, I did the same thing. Squirted her across the room and let her look around for the source of the water. She'd turn back to my Husband who would give her commands. |
While no better in my mind (if you're going to go to all that trouble, why not just call her to you and give a command?), this is quite a renovation of your previous description, given just last December, of how you use a spray bottle on your dog:
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Originally Posted by Calin I got a squirt bottle, set it on 'stream,' and every time my pup nipped me, I shot her in the butt with water. She'd give me this, "What the hell?" look and turned around to see where that water came from. If she turned back towards me with intent to nip again, I'd give her another squirt in the butt. She'd forget to nip me and spun back around to see where the water was coming from. |
This is just confusion for the dog, and a great way to teach "disengage, disenagage, disengage" from you.