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Possibly we should use shock collars to re-condition you out of this attention seeking behaviour!

But nah your brain is still rewiring itself and will be for a while. Not sure about all the hormonal aspects of being a youth are done by 19? Hopefully it is just those things and it’ll pass eventually.

Otherwise, well, figure out what it is and fix it :p

Uh huh. I could be trusted not to wander off if I was abused to that point too.

Of course not every dog is going to “get the message”. The point of any negative reinforcement is to create anxiety over performing certain actions, so they eventually don’t get performed. If the dog doesn’t understand that the physical pain is connected to the performance of said action, it’s just going to become a fearful and anxious dog because it randomly gets shocked for no apparent reason.

Even in expert hands in controlled conditions, shock collars perform no better than other methods, so yeah. Between remembering to close a door and abusing the dog, probably choose the former so you don’t accidentally introduce worse behaviour by making a fearful and anxious animal.

Closing the door manually is also an option in this instance, unless the dog can phase through objects.

I just don’t understand some people’s jump to “oh just abuse the dog” as the next logical step from “a dog in my house behaves differently from how I want it to”.

That is quite funny.

We think your wine is really great, but nobody thinks much of our award so it doesn’t actually mean anything.

Free games are free.

When did scriver become a Buddhist master?

People certainly won’t be fighting each other if they’re all dead. It checks out!