Don’t whackem with the newspaper either..
Sharp name call followed with a loud noise.
That SHOULD get their attention.
I follow up a good reaction with praise.
I follow a bad reaction with “temporary” banishment, but not physical abuse.
Response is met with reward.
Dogs are funny critters.
I disagree, because I could be calling them sharply for any number of reasons including imminent danger and why make them try and interpret the subtleties of my tone?
The newspaper is visual and a whack on my own thigh adds the audio if necessary .This is as easy as it to make the dogs understand exactly what the situation is.
Violence only begets violence.
-Especially- with Dobes.
Wanna know the real reason ghetto trash haven’t managed to keep them or turn them into ‘fighters’?
It’s because the necessary physical abuse to “train them” to be fighters is NOT tolerated by Dobes like it is by Pits.
You beat a Pit, he’ll forgive you and lick your whip hand.
You beat a Dobe and he’ll see it as unforgivable betrayal of his loyalty and eat your face.
Truth.