Does “Dog Punishment” Work?

Dog Punishment has been used by many people as a tactic to train a dog. Dog Punishment comes in many forms. It can be verbal punishment, physical punishment or even postural punishment. A dog will see any form of Dog Punishment as an undesirable activity it receives and may or may not associate the Dog Punishment with the dog behavior that the human is displeased with especially if the Dog Punishment is not carried out immediately as the behavior is being done.

If for instance, an owner returns home to find that the dog has upset the garbage can and spilled out all the contents all over the house and yells at the dog and perhaps hits the dog. The dog does not understand that the behavior of getting into the garbage can has anything at all to do with the owner yelling or hitting him. The dog will simply connect the return of “the master” with the fact that the master was displeased with the dog and the physical and verbal Dog Punishment will make the dog fearful of the owner returning home.

Dog Punishment that is verbal, physical or postural towards a dog will have an eroding effect on the trust that a dog has in being treated fairly by “the master”. The dog will start to fear the hand if physical Dog Punishment is used and will start to shrink anytime the hand comes near the dog even if the owner’s hand is coming towards the dog to pet the dog.

If Dog Punishment is the method you choose to use in correcting misbehavior in a dog it is best that the “perceived punishment” not come from you, but comes from the dog’s environment. This is why noise works well as a punishment. When the dog is “caught in the act”, doing a behavior that is undesirable and the human can grab a shake can, an air horn, or some other loud noise-maker and have the noise sound as soon as the dog is doing the behavior BUT do so in a manner that the dog will not see the owner making the noise than the dog will not associate the owner with the Dog Punishment. This way the dog will avoid the behavior (so as to avoid the noise) even when the owner is not around.

Often times when we catch a bad behavior after some time has passed and the dog is around at the time we notice the act having been done, (a book chewed, a garbage can rummaged through hours after the damage has been done) and the dog is crawling or slinking around as if “guilty”, we humans think, aha! the dog knows he has done something bad and deserves Dog Punishment. We would of course be wrong! A dog is not capable of moral judgments. They have no sense of right and wrong. A dog is not acting “guilty”, but is doing a submissive posture in response to a harsh tone of voice or a threatening posture from us.

If the above situations sound too familiar and Dog Punishment has not been effective to correct the undesired dog behavior, maybe it is time to look into other dog obedience training methods for improving your dog’s behavior.

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