As for pinning down, it is recommended, whether rightly or wrongly, on the Purina Website
http://www.Purina.co.uk/Home/About+Purina/Multimedia+Library/Video/Preventing+play+biting.htm.
It may well be but is a dog food manufacturer really the best source of info on puppy training and behaviour Vets also have very little experience of dog training (unless they have undertaken further study into dog behaviour) so their advice is also not necessarily to be relied on. I can understand how confusing it is for new puppy owners to be bombarded with all this different advice but find it sad and quite worrying that so many new owners resort to these kind of heavy handed and totally unnecessary tactics. It also seems by the number of posts on the same subject lately that many breeders are failing their new owners by not warning them of the realities of what living with a puppy is like (especially when there are young children) and not providing any kind of advice on training
excellent advise jane s
i could'nt have put it better myself. yes totally agree with are pet food manufactures really the best source to advise on puppy training/ behaviour.
why could'nt you ask your breeder for advise, on kind puppy methods.
as a breeder myself, i would hate to think of any of my puppies being treated this way, i would personally report them.
i vet my new persective puppy owners, with a fine tooth comb, and have refused people, i give huge amounts of information, covering all aspects of puppy owning, training ect, and am there for the life of my puppies, which i hope people will go away and read, and give this out before a puppy leaves me, along the 8 weeks, i talk in depth to people, and tell people to look past cute puppy.
it angers
me so much, that people don't do their homework, take a puppy home, and expect miracles, as i have said no puppy is born perfect, puppies due bite/ mouth, this is normal puppy behaviour, its down to a level headed, kind owner to enforce kind positive reward based training. i have always told persective puppy owners to ignore bad behaviour and reward good behaviour.
you are going to have rough phases with all puppies of all breeds, not just cockers, and all puppies start good, its the " owners", that turn them bad.
a puppy is a joy, through naughty phases,and any phases, it does get better, puppies test their bounderies, but you must only ever use kind reward based methods, not holding/ pinning and scarring a puppy for life
, which can inforce a puppy to bite more.
i'm totally speechless, and horrified
, and totally saddened by what i have read on here :'(in this day and age, some new puppy owners, and even vets can advise on such harsh methods.
as i say i own 8 fantastic cocker spaniels, who have only ever been shown love, care, and positive training, we have all beeen there and had a puppy, and it does and will get better, with time, paitence, and love.
and i own 8 fantastically laid back cockers who show no aggression, its all about the way we raise our puppies, mine are a real joy to own, yes they have been naughty, chewed through telephone wires, dug holes, taken socks,gone through the puppy biting phase ( 8 times) ect, that is a typical puppy.
you could also take a look at some children in todays society, bad parenting.....
imo although no puppy is born perfect, some owners have alot to answer too
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