On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 23:50:20 -0500, Don Foreman
wrote:

On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:57:02 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

Or you can buy/rent/borrow a good STRONG shock collar and watch him
coming..the moment he hits the yard..push the button and hold it down
while he goes into spasms and apparent convulsions. Hold that button
down for more than 30 seconds!! Have his owner shout NO!!! repeatedly
while doing it..then let up and let the owner continue to shout NO!!
until the dog recovers and runs home.

It may..may take 3-4 such treatments before its burned into his brain
that coming over to your place hurts and is a Bad Thing (tm)

Agreed, but only for a couple seconds, until the dog starts doing a
skidding reversal.


I strongly doubt that the owner would go along with this. I sure as
hell wouldn't.

Dog owners -aren't- very bright, as we all know. gd&r


Dogs respond much better to the carrot than to the stick though some
stick is sometimes necessary. Some breeds are nearly oblivious to
pain, labs being a notable example, but if shown stick and reward in
quick succession they figure that out quickly enough.

Example: say "come" softly, pull on leash. Praise upon arrival.
Repeat. After some of that, take off leash. Say "come" softly. If
dog responds, praise lavishly. The first time he does not respond,
replace leash, say "come" softly and damned near yank his head off --
then praise lavishly upon arrival.

And by the time the dog is trained, the rest of the kittens are dead.


Training a dog by shouting is foolish. Dogs hear just fine, and
quickly learn to ignore all but shouted commands when shouting is the
demonstrated form of emphasis.

They're like humans. They can understand that the shouting means that
you're unhappy with them and respond accordingly, but only if it's
evenly and regularly used.


Some dogs just aren't worth a **** from the gitgo. If they're just
stupid and basically untrainable but someone loves them then they get
kept, but a pet that harms or kills someone else's livestock or pets
is not acceptable. The options are to restrain it, retrain it, or
destroy it.

Ayup.

The neighbors need to put up a dog-proof fence tomorrow, period.

--
Know how to listen, and you will
profit even from those who talk badly.
-- Plutarch