What are the definitions of punishing pets?
▏Making animals feel pain
▏Making animals feel scared
▏Making animals feel scared
is relatively strict in my definition. As long as it meets one of the above three points, I will regard it as a punishment.
I am a child raised in different generations. When I was a child, I was served fried shredded pork with bamboo shoots.
(I am really naughty and have my own opinions, like a wild horse)
One day I asked the elders in my family, why did they beat me until my legs were bruised when I was a child?
Grandma responded to me very cutely:
"Because I was so angry with you that I went crazy and felt powerless."
"I really don’t know how to communicate with you properly! I had to use typing to hope you understand."
"But then you grew up When you get bigger and my wings get stronger, I won’t dare to hit you anymore."
"Punishment" is not the only way to solve the problem, it is more like another way of expressing helplessness.
I often overhear:
"After I punished you, the problem really improved and became less serious."
But! Is it true that the distance between you and him is getting farther and farther?
What if animals start to fear you, fear you, shrink back, or even lose their desire for certain things?
You improved a behavior that bothered you, but created more behavior that you didn't want to happen.
I believe this result will not be what you wanted at the beginning!
Please use rewards instead of punishments. Before we want to solve the behavior, we must first clarify "what is the cause of the behavior?"
Avoid triggering the behavior again, guide the animal to do the right thing, and then reward it!
For example:
I don’t like the cat biting my hand all the time.
First of all, we have to think about why the cat came to bite my hand?
The cat bites my hand, what do I indirectly gain from it?
"My attention? My interaction with it? Or do I think the cat bit my hand because it was hungry, so I gave it food?"
Why does it want these things?
Is there something unsatisfied about it?
If the reason is that the hunting needs are not satisfied and the cat wants to play games, then I have to teach the cat how to interact with humans correctly.
When it wants to play, it should interact with toys. When it plays with toys, I have to reward it!
Please think carefully, what was your original intention of raising a pet?
Is it because you want to love it, want to hurt it, or just want to punish it?
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[This article was published by "Culdise" on June 27, 2022]
