HOW TO DISCIPLINE YOUR DOG...

Dogs are very skilled at interpreting our gestures, learning keywords and preventing our reactions, but they are usually incapable to understand our scale of values and our conduct.

The effect of physical punishment…

The physical punishment is almost always negative. Sometimes it is necessary to physically stop a dog from doing a determined thing, but you should never use only toughness or violence. The smacks and the hits can bring bad consequences of many types: a dog can associate this punishment with the person who is performing it and deny obeying his calls in the future or won't let him touch it.

AVOIDING VIOLENCE

It is not strange for mistreated dogs to show themselves as aggressive and the violent dogs attack their masters a lot more than people they have never seen in their life; their aggressive conduct almost always comes from mistreatments performed by their masters.

Dogs simply don't understand our language. Instead of that they get the idea mainly from our voice pitch. Many dogs interpret the shouting as an invitation to bark. It is also possible for some dogs to behave in an unacceptable way precisely because they want to get their masters really mad; hitting these dogs is a lot worst as a punishment than just ignoring them.