Okay, Kevin and I and others have our issues. But I've noticed that we agree on this...........don't do this shit. Who tapes a dog's mouth closed in a hot car?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-man-left-puppy-scorching-125757973.html
Okay, Kevin and I and others have our issues. But I've noticed that we agree on this...........don't do this shit. Who tapes a dog's mouth closed in a hot car?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-man-left-puppy-scorching-125757973.html
People do this sort of thing all the time. Unfortunately, the number of people who have pets greatly exceeds the number who know enough and care enough to properly care for them.
Obviously, criminal behavior. But many years ago I did tape a dog's mouth shut. Twice.
My dog started pulling back the wall-to-wall carpeting and chewing up the padding. Since as a boy I had been a kennel boy and a wannabe assistant to a great dog trainer, I referenced his favorite dog training book, The Koehler Method of Dog Training, now out of print. And Koehler didn't play. For example, to train a dog not to pull on a leash, the trainer waits until the dog is not paying attention and then runs like a fullback in the opposite direction, of course using a choke chain. I have known people who were dragged down by their big dogs and were about to give them up, but I was able to stop that behavior in one fifteen-minute session.
Anyway, Koehler's method to stop destructive chewing was to put the object in the dog's mouth and tape their mouth closed. Then do it the next day even if the dog was not destructive. And it worked.
As a result of the Koehler method training, I had very big dogs that could be trusted with infants, at parties with food on the coffee table, and being left alone in my ungated front yard. They had so much more freedom than most dogs. Used copies of the book are still out there.
