to save your own ass.
We are saving my dog! If my stepmom gets the ultimadem of having to move out, or getting rid of Leather, either way she won't be able to keep her. So you are telling me that you would rather see my dog dead. She has nowhere else to go. My stepmom takes really good care of her. If Leather goes to the Spca, no one would want her, and she would be put down. So the minute you tell me that killing a dog is a good thing, I will believe that the only method that keeps her from barking is a bad one.
We didn't constantly use that method, it only need to be reinforced a few times before she understood what the water bottle meant.
My other dog is afraid of vacuums, would you like me to stop vacuuming? My point is, as long as it's not hurting her or causing severe psychological trauma, she is perfectly fine. She's alive. She's happy. It's better being alive and happy and having to look at a water bottle once in a while than to suddenly have to change environments and get killed.

I agree with Byakko's mom, that different dogs need different training, and we should all be open to others opinions and methods, and there will always be some that we are opposed to.