The Puppy Wizard

"Handsome Jack Morrison"
<handsomemorrison@thedetonatorearthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 02:27:44 GMT, Handsome Jack Morrison
> <handsomemorrison@thedetonatorearthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >No ocean, stream, creek, lake, pond, pool, puddle?
>
> Okay, how 'bout a bathtub?
>
> http://tinyurl.com/loax
>
> You can't get any safer than that, right?

RIGHT!

Unless the dog bites you for HURTIN him:

Koehler's usefulness: Critique--Digging (4)

">>>If you come home and find your dog has dug a hole,
fill the hole brimful of water. With the training collar
and leash, bring the dog to the hole and shove his
nose into the water; hold him there until he is sure
he's drowning.

If your dog is of any size, you may get all of the action of
a cowboy bull-dogging a steer. Stay with it. I've had elderly
ladies who'd had their fill of ruined flower beds dunk some
mighty big dogs.

A great many dogs will associate this horrible experience
with the hole they dug. It is not necessary to *catch the dog
in the act* in any of the above instances of correction.

Be consistent in your corrections and your dog will come
to find the smell of freshly dug earth quite repugnant.
p. 200).<<<"

The Koehler Method of Dog Training (1962). New York: Howell Book
House.

Critique 4: Aversives used are excessive.

The method described by Koehler for curbing digging
behavior involves the use of excessive discomfort that
may not be necessary to obtain aversion.

Koehler offers no alternatives to dunking the dogs nose
under water (other than staking the dog next to the hole
on a two foot chain--a procedure that will more likely
than not stimulate additional digging, certainly while the
dog is thus restrained).

The necessity of dunking the dog for 6 days (as
recommended), allowing the dog to watch the
preparation, etc., would seem overbearing and
extremely inefficient.

--RDK

"Who is cruel to a dog, is more cruel thereby to his own soul."

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