Beat like a dog?

Yes, the puppy was playing by biting the mother's pants. But scruffing would have been more than enough for a two months puppy! I keep wondering why people buy animals before knowing how to raise them properly? Me too, I don't think beating is a solution. When Binne misbehaves, I scruff and shake her seriously. This happend four times until now, and every time the motiv were the same: she was eating some piece of scrap in the woods. She usually don't need this kind of treatment, because words are enough for her to stop misbehaving. But, as I told you before, eating scrap from outside is dangerous and I want her to stop doing it forever.

I was cautious about mentioning the "scruff" treatment, some people here are totally against any kind of physical usage when dealing with dogs. As for the scraps your puppy is eating, is there anyway to remove them from where she can get to them? Or supply her with a lot of chew toys? Because puppies chew, they have to, and if she had something else to chew on and the scraps were eliminated from where she can reach them, then you won't have to keep trying to get her to stop.

I don't think scruffing is un-natural. The mother dog would scruff her puppies if they misbehaved (in canine's terms, of course). So why would I be to blame if I did the same? As for Binne's bad habit, my mistake, I meant to say "she was eating some piece of crap". See what a wrong letter can do? LOL Be sure that in our house there are no scraps Binne could reach. This have happened since her first week here, because she is like a vacuum cleaner, nothing (even slightly) comestible escapes her jaws.

I'm affraid that's what that boy wants from his little puppy: to become aggresive. I forgot to tell you that they were talking about a pitbul puppy. Unfortunatelly there are so many teenagers who want to walk a fierce dog by the leash! That's why he poured water on the puppy, because he heard that this is the way to separate two dogs who are fighting. So I guess he was preparing his pup for dog fighting. But the 2 months puppy was just playing! Scruffing would have been enough!

I don't beat my dogs either. Yet it happened to me once to hit a dog. It happened last year, in november. My previous dog, Nera, was already ill and she didn't feel good at all. We were at our morning walk when a huge black stray dog attacked Nera. I yelled at him to let her go, but he had bitten her back and he shook her like a rag. She was very weak at that time, so she couldnt figt back. I grabbed the stray of his scruff with my both hands and I lifted him up, but he was still holding Nera in his jaws. All I had to do then was to hit him. Only then he released his bite and ran away. I felt terrible because I had to hit an animal, but that was my only chance to save Nera.