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Never Punish Your Dog by Giving Him Commands
I have seen it happen a number of times when someone would punish their dog for some transgression by snapping commands at the animal with an angry, I'll show you whose boss kind of attitude.
A continuous series of commands, delivered in a punitive fashion, is really much more of an ongoing act of humiliation and intimidation than it is a proper act of punishment, in which you deliver the upsetting stimulus and, then, let it go instantly, before immediately, once again, presenting yourself to your dog as his warmest friend.
You need for your dog to associate obedience work with pleasurable events. Indeed, receiving and responding to commands should be among his favorite two or three things to do on all of God's blue and green globe.
When you cause your dog to associate command training with aversives, you are causing him to hate that which he must learn to love.
For all the reasons just stated, you should never command your dog in a mean-spirited, punitive fashion, and certainly never in a manner that smacks of vindictiveness.
If your dog's behavior forces you to dispense aversives, then, find another way to do it. But whatever you do, never punish your dog by forcing him to obey commands snapped out in an angry, mean spirited fashion.