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Tantruming Procedure
A tantruming procedure is a technique you can use to punish your dog when he engages in behavior that is potentially catastrophic, like biting, fighting, menacing, or running into the street long after he has come to understand that such things are forbidden.
Essentially, the tantrum is an extreme punishment procedure in which you pretend to be all but deranged by emotional upset, in order to create a similar degree of distress in your dog.
Indeed, a properly staged tantrum should flood your dog with anxiety, in order to ensure that he experiences a physiologically mediated degree of emotional upset so overwhelming as to ensure that he will never want to experience it - or the potentially catastrophic behavior that brought it about - ever again.