When Nova does something bad and she knows she did something bad, you take one step towards her and her eyes close and she ducks a little.


Watching that makes me wonder what her past was like I'm sure she wasn't abused cause I can do almost anything to her and she don't care, but I do, however, beleave that hitting was a punishment to her. Now, all I do is correct her and use postive renforcemnt and WOW it works wonders!


Now with Breeze, she's a little slow but she is just 5 months when she does something bad, if you don't give her a punishment, she doesn't think it was bad, I can say no and clap my hands as much as I want and she will wag her tail and ask me to play so, what I do, is say "Breeze No" and grab her coller (gently!) and lead her outside, because being alone is the WORST possible punishment you could EVER do to her. It's like a time-out. I works great for us. 5 mins later, I let her back in and she is good.


These methods have worked for us.

Ash