Whether it be raising a hand or flicking water at another person or animal, the outcome will remain the same.
If the situation is between two humans, the best thing to do is to speak to the other person and let that person know what's up.
Because animals cannot understand us, the best thing we can do is to simply remove them from the situation. Picking them up and placing them somewhere else.
The thing with the water flicking is, although it may work in the beginning, later on that pet will start to get angry over it.
The noise thing is just not a good idea at all (if it is a loud noise) (if it's an irritating noise, rather than a loud noise, it might work well). Animals have extremely delicate scalas in their ears and it hurts and/or scares them. For example, Guy Fawkes fireworks.
I'm not trying to dismiss your methods, if they work for you then it's great.. I wouldn't use the aforementioned methods on my pets though. One of my dogs is extremely scared of that tssss sound that spray cans make.
My current cat doesn't get sprayed with water because he's good. He also doesn't get the coin-can shaken at him because he's lazy and never gets into anything (forgot to mention they're crappy plastic coins from one of those dollar-store play registers and it gets shaken from across the room, my bad). Of course I'd prefer to just remove cats from the situation, that's always my go-to. I can't speak too much about dogs, since I've only lived with two and they've never been mine. I only mentioned the spray bottle and can because some people feel a need to punish pets (then they shouldn't have pets) and I'd prefer they do things that aren't overly harmful than things that are. As I said, the spray bottle and can is my last resort, the spray bottle for if a behaviour is causing problems (ex. scratching the couch so much that the stuffing is coming out because obviously I'm not going to declaw them) and the can if the fluffy dumbdumb is about to hurt themselves.
IIN to spank a cat or dog?
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Whether it be raising a hand or flicking water at another person or animal, the outcome will remain the same.
If the situation is between two humans, the best thing to do is to speak to the other person and let that person know what's up.
Because animals cannot understand us, the best thing we can do is to simply remove them from the situation. Picking them up and placing them somewhere else.
The thing with the water flicking is, although it may work in the beginning, later on that pet will start to get angry over it.
The noise thing is just not a good idea at all (if it is a loud noise) (if it's an irritating noise, rather than a loud noise, it might work well). Animals have extremely delicate scalas in their ears and it hurts and/or scares them. For example, Guy Fawkes fireworks.
I'm not trying to dismiss your methods, if they work for you then it's great.. I wouldn't use the aforementioned methods on my pets though. One of my dogs is extremely scared of that tssss sound that spray cans make.
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My current cat doesn't get sprayed with water because he's good. He also doesn't get the coin-can shaken at him because he's lazy and never gets into anything (forgot to mention they're crappy plastic coins from one of those dollar-store play registers and it gets shaken from across the room, my bad). Of course I'd prefer to just remove cats from the situation, that's always my go-to. I can't speak too much about dogs, since I've only lived with two and they've never been mine. I only mentioned the spray bottle and can because some people feel a need to punish pets (then they shouldn't have pets) and I'd prefer they do things that aren't overly harmful than things that are. As I said, the spray bottle and can is my last resort, the spray bottle for if a behaviour is causing problems (ex. scratching the couch so much that the stuffing is coming out because obviously I'm not going to declaw them) and the can if the fluffy dumbdumb is about to hurt themselves.