[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Debarking

  • From: "Holly Woods" <hollywoods@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <daryllauffer@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:45:47 -0700

A squirt gun is my second most valuable training tool I think for some of my 
students. I mean for the students to use on their dog.... The dogs look so 
offended but after I use it a couple times I just have to point my finger at 
them and say pssssst.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daryl Lauffer" <daryllauffer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 8:16 PM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Debarking


> The only time I ever considered debarking one of my dogs was about three 
> or four years ago.  I was staying with a friend with a young sable bitch 
> who had NEVER slept in a kennel or outside!  She barked all night 
> long.....sat in that kennel looking at the house and cried.  My friend 
> never said a word but I'm sure she was thinking "house dogs....sheez"!!!! 
> I was mortified.  Of course now that I think about it, she bred the bitch 
> so maybe she was partially responsible?!!  Swore she was going to be 
> debarked.  Well, that never happened.  And she is still the most vocal of 
> any dog I have ever had.  She 'talks' about everything all the time!  Gets 
> the other dogs barking.....over nothing.  My husband says it's because 
> she's a bitch and has to have the last word, LOL.   She is also the dog 
> that creates the most chaos in the house, the one that ate 12 glass 
> christmas ornaments off the tree, the one that ate my favorite feather 
> pillow, takes the shoe laces out of my shoes, sprays water
>  from her bowl all over the kitchen, and is as sweet and loving as any dog 
> I've ever had.  She is the dog of my heart.  I have found a way to quiet 
> her down.  A squirt gun.  She hates being squirted and at this point I 
> don't even have to put water in it, just show her the gun and she shuts 
> up!  Of course, most important, she's quiet when we're not home and 
> doesn't disturb the neighbors.  Thank God!Dee Lauffer
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