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Vocal 5 month EM

season

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You can laugh all you want or try to be funny all you want. If Solo does something I don't want him doing I say No. He listens and he stops. Same with every other dog I've had over the last 20 yrs. I simply do what works for me.


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Bob Felts

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But if it makes you feel better to think that I must beat my dog to get him to listen then whatever makes happy. It can't be that easy can it? Well, yes it can.

Perhaps I wasn't straight-up enough in my last reply.

Do you really think it never came to my mind to tell my dog "No?" Yeah, I have done so. However, that on its own is not getting the job done. You may have a lock on - if you say something, your dog instantly obeys. Not so for me. It is your insulting attitude that rankles me. I do NOT want you to go mouthing-off on "well I just say no, and all is solved." I don't really care how easy this is for you. Perhaps you truly are a "dog whisperer," or perhaps you are delusional. It doesn't matter if you only come back with, "it isn't that hard to do folks." Not helpful. If someone has good, useful advice on what I can employ to get a job done, I'm all ears. If someone just wants to tell the world, hey, you shouldn't be having difficulty here, just say no... that is just someone being a pain-in-the-butt know it all. I find you to repeatedly come off with a smug, superior bad attitude. You may hide behind the "I don't cuss" at people crap, but your attitude is right at the bottom of the pile. You also hide behind the "I don't care what you think of me." News flash, most people probably don't think about you, but you find they will react to you. Perhaps mommy never gave you much attention. Who knows? You treat other people with a superior condescending attitude, and this in itself makes you a low quality, low caliber person. It is said that you can judge the quality of someone by how they treat those that can do them no benefit. As far as I am concerned, you are a low quality human being.
 

season

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Perhaps I wasn't straight-up enough in my last reply.

Do you really think it never came to my mind to tell my dog "No?" Yeah, I have done so. However, that on its own is not getting the job done. You may have a lock on - if you say something, your dog instantly obeys. Not so for me. It is your insulting attitude that rankles me. I do NOT want you to go mouthing-off on "well I just say no, and all is solved." I don't really care how easy this is for you. Perhaps you truly are a "dog whisperer," or perhaps you are delusional. It doesn't matter if you only come back with, "it isn't that hard to do folks." Not helpful. If someone has good, useful advice on what I can employ to get a job done, I'm all ears. If someone just wants to tell the world, hey, you shouldn't be having difficulty here, just say no... that is just someone being a pain-in-the-butt know it all. I find you to repeatedly come off with a smug, superior bad attitude. You may hide behind the "I don't cuss" at people crap, but your attitude is right at the bottom of the pile. You also hide behind the "I don't care what you think of me." News flash, most people probably don't think about you, but you find they will react to you. Perhaps mommy never gave you much attention. Who knows? You treat other people with a superior condescending attitude, and this in itself makes you a low quality, low caliber person. It is said that you can judge the quality of someone by how they treat those that can do them no benefit. As far as I am concerned, you are a low quality human being.

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Boxergirl

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Hey Bob, how is this issue going? What have you tried and what is working. Or not working? I just wondered how things were going as the original topic got a bit derailed.
 

season

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My mom is dead so the hug thing isn't the issue. You don't know me but feel free to try and figure me out or judge me just because I don't say what you want to hear. I'm not sitting here passing judgement on you because you can't get your dog to listen to you or because someone calls me names or tries to make jokes about me. All stuff, which in comparison to me offering advice you don't like, reflects bad on you and the others that can't just ignore what I offer if it's so annoying.
My advice, as I've said to others, is to ignore my input and advice if it does you no good. No reason you should be allowing me, or anyone else, to get under your skin.


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season

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So please ppl...offer advice that can help instead of giving me one second of your time. I'd appreciate it and I'm sure others would too.


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season

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I actually don't disagree with this. I've raised two really amazing young women and I've helped to raise many others. I seldom used the word no with them, just as I seldom use it for my dogs. I prefer to teach them what I *do* want done rather than what I don't want. "No" doesn't teach an alternate acceptable behavior. My children and my dogs listen to me and respect me because I'm fair and I've taught them good life skills. Not because they're afraid I'll punish them if they make a mistake. Consequences, yes. Punishment, seldom. Physical punishment, never. It's worked for me.

Salute!


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Bob Felts

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...maybe your little guy is hoping his bark will animate his toy Pinocchio style lol ...

I think you hit the nail on the head there. He is playing with the toy. His front down play posture is my major reason for suspecting this. The alert barking seems to be handled.
 

Bob Felts

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Hey Bob, how is this issue going? What have you tried and what is working. Or not working? I just wondered how things were going as the original topic got a bit derailed.

Just a bit derailed... The alert barking has subsided, simply to our shifting his focus from the people in the background to some obedience reinforcement. Such as making him go through known commands, sit, down, come, find it, leave it, take it... That kind of thing. Once we get him unfocused on strangers, he forgets about them or ignores them. The play barking is more an issue. He has two toys he barks at. One is an empty upside down food bowl. He sees his reflection and gets all barky and growly with it, and plays with it as if it were a hockey puck. The other is a ring toy, that has treats inside of it, that he has to work to remove. If he barks (and bark he will at those toys) we correct him verbally. If he doesn't obey, we remove the toy from play. Perhaps not a real solution to the barking, but it does stop the behavior for now. We are working on building up the silent play time.
 

Boxergirl

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See, now I don't correct for vocal play as long as it's appropriate play. Is there a reason you want silent play? I mean, if you say, "Because it's what I want," then I get it. I just have never thought to correct play barking.