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"Sorry, let me elaborate, 120 lb. 10 month old pup, growling and snapping at my other dog, had to be corrected...i grabbed his choke chain, yanked it up to give a quick correction, then told him to down and put him on his side....i am 100% sure that if he hadn't been corrected in this manner, he wouldve eventually thought it ok to bute/attack my other dog, which is unnaccetable in my house
a dog's correction should, in my opinion, match the intesity of his unwanted behavior...if he begins snarling at my other dog because he doesn't want her near us, he needs to be shown that he doesn't choose where she goes, but i do...
happened twice within a week, 2 years later never happened again...my 60 lb. dog has never been hurt by him, and he does not need corrections anymore...success in my eyes..."
OK I understand now what you are saying. Using the choke as a correction is OK. I just had it in my head the puppy was younger and the phrase "choke out" gets to me because I have seen dog show handlers "choke out" dogs they were showing to straighten them out. Mind you it was not to unconsciousness but it was severe. They literally had the dogs front feet off the ground choking them, I was totally disgusted. Was not done to corsos BTW.
Sorry I kind of hijacked the thread.
