Would you allow this?

[Southpaw]

So at work this morning a woman comes in with her 7 month old lab/pit mix (presumably) and wants him fitted with a prong. One of my coworkers helps her, all is fine and dandy. Manager comes up and is chatting with this woman and I don't even know WHY but all of a sudden I see her standing on the leash, giving him maybe 1ft of slack, and then I hear YELP YELP YELP. Dog keeps yelping, manager keeps saying he needs to learn to respect the prong and the pain will end when he learns to back off. Owner just stands there watching.

Okay. This has nothing to do with whether you like or dislike prong collars. Would you EVER allow an employee at a pet store to do that?!

 

[darkchild16]

Nope because thats misuse of the tool AND abuse.

 

[Kaydee]

If there is a purgatory, that manager will be wearing that collar there...

 

[yoko]

No because I know if I walked into a store and saw that I'd turn right around and leave

 

[Shai]

Strangers are not permitted to inflict pain upon my dogs. Ever.

 

[Aescleah]

There are certainly better ways of dealing with it in my opinion

Ashley

 

[Linds]

Not a chance. No one but me is allowed to interact with my dogs other than petting and talking to without my direct permission or if they are close friends. That includes any type of "training" or discipline.

 

[JessLough]

Strangers are not permitted to inflict pain upon my dogs. Ever.

Not a chance. No one but me is allowed to interact with my dogs other than petting and talking to without my direct permission or if they are close friends. That includes any type of "training" or discipline.

These.

 

[Emily]

OMG there would a short pause and then I would eviscerate the guy.

 

[stardogs]

People will let those in a position of authority get away with a lot I've found. I don't ever hand my leash to someone else unless I totally trust them not to do anything inappropriate (like this sort of thing most def *is*).

 

[AllieMackie]

That's... vile. If any of us ever attempted something like that we'd be fired on the spot. We give training suggestions sometimes if a customer asks, but that is WAY WAY beyond the line.

 

[JoLeigh]

Oh nononoNO! that man would have gotten an ear full and that's IF I'm having a REALLY good day.

 

[meepitsmeagan]

That man would not be able to make children or see out of his left eye if he did that to my dog... And I would make sure the entire town heard about it. I may even go to corporate. That would royally peeve me off.

I CANNOT believe that. It is so wrong on so many levels. I cannot believe that owner just stood there and let him do that.

 

[Laurelin]

I hate it enough when random people try to make my dog sit for them. If someone tried to do that kind of 'training' to my dog... well that wouldn't go over too well.

 

[Beanie]

Oh HELL no. I would never let somebody put a prong on my dogs anyway but that would have gotten the guy tackled, football style. Not even just football style, "trying to hurt you so you have to leave the game" style.

 

[Paige]

People will let those in a position of authority get away with a lot I've found. I don't ever hand my leash to someone else unless I totally trust them not to do anything inappropriate (like this sort of thing most def *is*).

Amen to this. My mom and I agreed to take away my sister's riding crop because she was being spank happy with it and it was total abuse of the crop. I'd flip if someone handled my animal like that. There is a huge difference between use of a prong and abuse of one.

 

[Moth]

That would totally not be happening because beatings would ensue...

 

[Southpaw]

It totally baffled me because not a single other person at this store would have ever done that. We'll help a person fit one. We'll explain how to use it (although I generally avoid "helping" people with prongs since I've never used one, so don't really know what to do with them). We'll tell the customer to walk their dog around the store with it to see what they think. But, we are not trainers so no way in hell am I going to take the leash and attempt to train someone's dog there, especially not using corrections.

If you want to do that to your own dog, that's one thing... although I still don't think it's the appropriate thing.... but sooooo out of line to do to someone else's dog.

 

[Cthulhu7]

I would think the dog would be less likely to respect the prong and more likely to fear people because of this.
And I'm not even an experienced dog owner!

 

[lizzybeth727]

Yeah no. Nobody is allowed to hold my dog's leashes unless I really trust them and even then it's a very short period.