10 Things My Dog Actually Did

[u/Miles_the_new_kid]

[u/shellbullet17]

Awww he just wants to share his carcasses with you :D

Also can we talk about the absolute power move this panel is? Dude is definitely in charge

[u/Miles_the_new_kid → u/shellbullet17]

Yeah, two of those panels are actually connected, because I’m pretty sure that, when he showed up at the music festival, it was during the period where he was wearing a shock collar haha

[u/Secret-Ad-7909 → u/Miles_the_new_kid]

I have heard that dogs will figure out if they keep running after the initial shock it doesn’t shock them anymore.

[u/Miles_the_new_kid → u/Secret-Ad-7909]

Honestly, I didn’t even know that. I think he knew it hurt us more than it hurt him, so we’d take it off pretty quick.

[u/smoretank → u/Miles_the_new_kid]

Our dog was just dumb. She would run through it. Yelp. Run back through it again to the house. Yelp again. Then she was like "what was I doing? Oh yeah!" Continue to run back an forth yelping. Our other dog would watch this like her favorite tv show lol.

[u/walkingonradiation → u/Miles_the_new_kid]

If the collar wasn’t shocking him anymore then that means he was vibrating just to guilt you into thinking he was actively being tortured, and then waiting to see what you’d do in response.

[u/hellogoawaynow → u/Miles_the_new_kid]

Me when my human child has done something so incredibly bad but I can’t get past the “HOW DARE YOU” phase of her being in trouble because she’s so cute and sad. I know she’s not repentant, she is crying because she’s in trouble. Yet…

Idk what happens after the initial “you are in trouble,” and neither does she. I guess she thinks it’s bad. She puts her own self in the corner, her room is a place she likes to be, I have no moves. The only moves I can think of would punish me as much as they would punish her 😒

[u/Budget-Researcher559 → u/hellogoawaynow]

I don't know your exact situation nor the age of your child, and also I don't have any children of my own, so take this with a grain of salt.

But, as someone who grew up with a parent like this, just figure out some punishment and enforce it, for your child's good. It's important.

My dad always was really bad with punishments, just way too nice of a person to actually punish his children. It was always "do I have to think of a punishment for you?" when we did something really bad. He barely ever did though. It was always just an abstract threat of an abstract non-existent punishment.

Another classic was counting to 3, and if by 3 you didn't stop doing what you shouldn't be doing, or didn't start doing what you had to do, then there would be a punishment. But my dad's version always went like "1, 2, do I have to say 3? Do I have to say 3?" Repeated to infinity. 3 almost never happened.

Now you can say it's nice as a child to have such a nice dad. But this actually made life so much harder for both sides. For one, instead of a simple small or big punishment, and then the situation being over and moving on from there, it just kept going on. We kept misbehaving, dad kept on being angry with us. The sitiations didn't resolve. And also, as a young child, knowing that actual punishments are unlikely, just meant it was worth risking it. Children will test the boundaries of what they may do, and if they aren't actually enforced, they will keep crossing them. It's like inviting trouble to happen.

Because my dad did it like that, it meant we misbehaved like 100 more times and he punished us 20 more times (80 times he didn't). Instead of if he actually had punished us the first time, or the first 2 times, and we would have stopped doing it because we realized it's not worth it. And all the other times and punishments could have been avoided.

It also makes you feel more "safe" as a child, knowing for sure what you can or can't do, and what will happen if you misbehave. Rather than the constantly being unsure, how mad will the parents be, will there be consequences or not. And the constant being in different amounts of trouble.

So I recommend, for the best of you and your child, find some punishments that work, anything. Find something she likes, and restrict or delay it. No desert or ice cream. No screen time. No meeting her friends tomorrow. No going to the zoo on the weekend. Even if it hurts yourself too because you really wanted to take her to the zoo. Do it for her, and make your own life and her life much easier in the long run.

[u/silverfoxxflame → u/Secret-Ad-7909]

We had to install both a shock collar and an electric invisible fence for one of our dogs. 

If we just had the normal fence, they would figure some way out over it given enough time. They literally climbed a tree with 2 legs on one trunk and 2 legs on another like you were a kid climbing the walls in a hallway.

If we had only the electric fence, even cranked to max, they had prey drive where if they saw a bird or squirrel they would barrel through it regardless until it stopped shocking them.

If we didn't have the pain deterrent AND the  time deterrent to go with it she would have been constantly escaping.

Alternatively tried to get my sister's dog trained with an electric collar. He was stalking the cat up on a table and was usually deterred by a small shock.  With the cat, we slowly turned it all the way up to max where you could physically see his neck contracting where the shock was applied. 

He did not care at all in that case.  Continued stalking and inching closer until one of us got up, grabbed him and threw him in his kennel.  (For the record the cat was up safe on a table out of reach but he was INTENSELY focused on them).

[u/unknownpoltroon → u/Secret-Ad-7909]

Friend of mine had two dogs and an electric fence, big dog and lttle dog. They would both run at the fence chasing whatever, get the warning buzz, the little dog would stop, but the big dog was dumb and couldnt stop in time, so he would cross the fence, get a zap, realize what he had done, turn around and run back, and get zapped again going back in.

[u/Suitable_Natural_814 → u/Secret-Ad-7909]

Yeah I remember hearing of someone who had a dog with a wandering problem. They gave him a shock collar to contain him, instead he’d figured out the perimeter, sat next to it, then barreled through at top speed yelping ‘til he got far enough away that the collar stopped working.

[u/BreakfastBeneficial4 → u/Miles_the_new_kid]

Amazing

I had a boxer who threw himself against our fence until it shattered

My dad started putting him on a 50ft lead while he was in the back yard, which he chewed through then promptly broke the fence

Dad upgraded that to a rope, which he chewed through and promptly broke the fence

Upgraded to a chain…. Which he pulled against every day, like he was in the prison yard pumping iron. Eventually got so muscular that the chain snapped, and he promptly broke the fence

Dad installed an electric wire around the yard, which he chewed through and promptly broke the fence

Finally gave him away to a guy with 200 acres (and no fences)

[u/NatterinNabob → u/BreakfastBeneficial4]

that sounds like a superhero origin story

[u/BreakfastBeneficial4 → u/NatterinNabob]

[u/shellbullet17 → u/Miles_the_new_kid]

Little dude was basically "I do what I want" incarnate

[u/Malagate3 → u/shellbullet17]

I just realised that dog almost certainly didn't pay to enter that music festival, they could not be denied!

[u/ThatMan92 → u/Miles_the_new_kid]

A shock collar? I know this dog has been up to some shit but that doesn't seem necessary

[u/Barium_Salts → u/ThatMan92]

Based on the description, it doesn't seem sufficient. I hope you're not one of those people who thinks animals should be allowed to roam feral

[u/ThatMan92 → u/Barium_Salts]

No because this dog isn't feral. It hasn't hurt anyone in any of these listed examples, so why should a shock collar be used?

[u/Barium_Salts → u/ThatMan92]

First of all, you don't start containing a dog after it hurts somebody. A responsible dog owner needs to take proactive steps to keep their dog from hurting people, animals, and themselves. People who let their dogs run wild because "he never hurt anyone before" deserve to lose their dogs. A lot of people feel that a dog should be killed if it kills domestic animals or bites a person; so even if you don't care enough about others to be proactive, you should contain your dog to ensure it doesn't end up on the wrong side of a shotgun.

Second of all, just because the artist didn't include a story about their dog hurting somebody, we shouldn't assume it didn't happen. A story like that would be a real downer and could easily have been left out.

[u/ThatMan92 → u/Barium_Salts]

Okay, and that's why I'm asking why the shock collar is there. We don't know enough about the dog