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Originally Posted by Debbie
You will see plenty more things Alan - the tail thing I see all the time - I too have tapped<<<<<TAPPED the tail and said tail at the same time in the past to get the dog to stop flagging its tail....
I agree with your concerns - I too feel the same way - the shouting - being too harsh on dogs etc etc.....
Some dogs need the owner to be stern - I know plenty of dogs that are good as gold until they get to a show and then they play up something cronic - but there are limits!!!!
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Jayjay played up to start with but he calmed down by lunch time and not because I was shouting at or hitting him because I left him to it and rewarded him when he was good, start as you mean to go on I say and if he knows he gets rewarded for being good he's going to be good next time.
What I saw certainly wasn't tapping, one dog even yelped and it wasn't even in the ring. I'd rather Jayjay flew his tail they slap him the way some people were.
I think the shouting got to me most because of the dogs reaction, they obviously got more than just shouting when they weren't in public.
