Janice, was it the water or was it the nasty kids (I would have thought they were shouting as kids do when doing things like this) that the dog was scared off???

To be fair to dogpositive,,, I think you have misinterpreted what she has actually written into something that was really nasty, which was not the case, a SMALL water spray, makes NO noise, Bailey quite enjoys it hence him stopping the destructive thing he doing and what he's doing isn't nice for my fingers, my daughers fingers, toes etc... and if I say no in a sturn voice surely he will think well your a missery guts and I dont like your tone, pushing him away from me.... Unless I'm wrong but surely shouting no to a dog is more harmful to you and your dogs relationship that a tiny harmful bit of water, which he doesn't relate to you at all and isn't even unpleasant, unless you have one of those huge double barrelled water pistols, then I think that is a little un-called for.

I do think anyone trying these methods needs to see a profesional and get trained though. I dont have a clue so ignoring the bad praising the good is what Im going for at the moment. Well see how it goes.