do you believe in spanking your pet?  

No, you should never use negative discipline on your pet. Never spank or yell. They are very sensitive. They learn from kindness and rewards. If people don't know how to train a dog, they can learn from a trainer or even buy a book.

NO, I don't think that one should spank (aka hit) a pet! They learn in the wild from their parent who doesn't have the means to hit! They can easily equate hitting with being attacked and become mean and viscious. Besides, who wants an animal who only obeys out of fear rather than love and and a desire to please!

An animal would not understabd such discipline as spanking. Dogs would understand a raised voice and maybe a smack on the nose, but a spanking is really strange. I had dogs for a while and they were very good, they knew when they had been bad and would go sit in a corner till i told them it was ok.

Every pets should be given equal respect from people just like we give respects to every human kind around. To discipline our pets, we should discipline them in love but not by in any ways of violence or negative disciplines, like what you have mentioned above, like spanking them. It's not the right way at all to discipline our pets, not at all because pets they may be but they also have emotions like human beings do.

Okay so maybe i am a bad person but i hit my dogs. QUICK CALL THE POLICE! They are sensitive and they are family and we love them blah blah blah. But i swear satan has replicated himself in my two dogs. They are just over a year old and bull mastiff x great dane and getting huge! So i can consider them an exual member of the family. Lately barking is their favourite passtime and instead of getting an electroshock collar and being the worst pet owner in the world i do hit them. after 5 days of no sleep because your dog wont stop barking you get a little mad. Expecially when your neighbours just had a baby and it cant sleep. They have responded to it and now only bark when something is in the yard or someone is hanging around. They are good dogs and i love them but sometimes physical reinforcement is needed.

As a matter of habit, we do not spank our pets. There are times though, when spanking gets called for. Pets know how to abuse us, too. They know that we love them too much and that, they can get off with some mischief at times. When they overdo doing the mischiefs, it is only proper that they get their spanking. My pets still come to me and love me even after getting their spanking. What is important is, we do not spank them as a matter of habit but, as a matter of necessity. if we do it only once in a month or two, i don't think it will do them much harm. Just make sure that the spanking hurts but not wound nor disable them in any way at all.

I love my dog but sometimes whenever I'm losing control to him I admit that I spank him for him to learn a lesson. My dog grew up as a spoiled brat but after I gave him some punishment I make sure that I would pamper him with my love and full attention. As a result he learned something from his mistakes.

It looks as though I'm about to be the first person to go against the grain here, and I hope I don't get chastised too harshly. I do believe in spanking a dog, but not to the point of being abusive. One responder said a smack on the nose would work; I disagree. I favor a smack on the buttocks; not hard, but just hard enough so they can "identify" this action as a form of discipline.

And they respond to this. An old saying goes, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks." Well, one time, a roommate moved in his 15-year-old dog that his ex-wife had taken care of. This dog was apparently not housebroken, because she was constantly pooping indoors. One time, I called her into the den, pointed to her mess, and she started to "slink" away. I smacked her on the butt. She never did it again, but she wasn't traumatized of me. We were still affectionate, and she still begged whenever I ate (and I can't help but share).

Another method of obedience training is to use short, abrupt noises that the dog can easily remember. Smacking your hand with a rolled-up newspaper, or shaking an aluminum can full of pennies or dried beans works quite well. In fact, these are the only methods besides spanking that will work on our dog. She is a spoiled, lap and furniture dog, who doesn't even care when we yell at her. The other methods work everytime, yet she still loves us. She eats with us, she wrestles with me, she rides in the car, she steals Cousin Rob's chair, bed, and pillow... :)

With cats, it's another story. I'm afraid to hurt them, and they probably wouldn't listen, anyway. The only thing to do with them is to keep picking them up and removing them from wherever you don't want them to be, and hope they are obedient. This is how you housebreak them, and it mostly works with keeping them off certain furniture. Then, give them a scratching post/pad, and hope they don't shred your furniture! :P

I don't that it is good to spank ones pet for whatever reasons. There are pet trainers and you could not see them use spanking or shouting.

It's useless to spank a dog for pooping in the wrong place. They won't know what you mean. If you catch them in the act, you can just say NO firmly, and take them to their spot. When they go, praise them. They should get the idea then. No one should ever hit their dog, but a light swat every now and then to get their attention wouldn't hurt.