Reddit reviews Pet Corrector Spray for Dogs, Dog Training Spray to Stop Barking and Unwanted Behaviors, Pet Deterrent and Training Spray, 6.35OZ

If I ever felt like my family (which includes my pets) were in real danger then it's on like Donkey Kong. For now thankfully it's just an annoyance. I carry pet corrector spray in case I need to scare away another dog or cat. I haven't had to use it yet, but I saw someone use it at the dog park and it worked.

It's so effective that people sell appallingly expensive "pet corrector" sprays with extra plastic bits to amplify the noise:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Company-of-Animals-COA-AP-CORRECTOR/dp/B0051GO5WM

But if you find a cheap "air duster" you can scrunch some gaffer tape around the nozzle to have the same effect.

Found some for you.
Stop that! is the pheromone spray. Boar pheromones trigger an immediate "WTF was that" response and has saved me multiple times.


Pet corrector. This one is like a silent air horn. Definitely has worked to deter dogs from coming near me.

This is the citronella repellent.

I have also heard that some people have used a diluted pepper spray. Personally, if I was being attacked by an unknown dog or it attacked my own dog, I have no qualms with pepper spraying them. There is a brand called SABRE that is marketed for protection against dogs, but it is essentially just normal MACE. I'm not sure if pepper spray is legal for civilians to carry in the UK as even some states here restrict the use, so I looked up another type of defensive spray for you.

Defense spray.

A low powered tazer designed for women is another thing I carry around. More for my own safety, but would consider using it on a large dog as well if the circumstances warranted. Mind, the more extreme sprays and tazers are precautions I can legally take, because an attack against my service animal is a felony due to classification as necessary medical equipment. Assault on my dog is essentially assault on my life, and in my state I have a lot of freedom for self protection in these cases. Always check your local laws before picking up defensive sprays.

Oh yes! I still consider that positive training if it is clear when it happens. Improper technique can just make them scared and confused, but I feel if you are consistent, it's kind of hard to screw that up.

I would give my girl timeouts in the bathroom anytime she was mouthing and biting us when she was a puppy. Just a quick 15-30secs each time she did it and was OK with the bathroom being the timeout zone (since her crate was her safe place, and our laundry closet had too many chemicals). She learned quick after a few days to stop biting.

I've actually seen the Pet Corrector pop up recently as a way for some shiba owners to get their shibas to stop barking at things, and for some, to break their predatory drift focus if they are aggressive towards small dogs (or other animals) and get them to focus back on you.

So it works by emitting, “... a hiss of compressed gas (which is completely safe for animals) to interrupt a dog’s unwanted behavior. The noise is similar to the hiss warning sound made by a cat or snake, alerting him to the danger.”

Here’s an [Amazon link] (https://www.amazon.com/Pet-Corrector-Behavior-Training-Harmless/dp/B0051GO5WM).

Nine weeks- wow! I got my little psycho (he’s almost three and has mellowed out considerably, thankfully) at 12 weeks. Isn’t it amazing how these precious, cuddly little babies are actually cold blooded monsters? I seriously spent my whole life fixated on wanting a dog, and it took maybe two hours before I realized I was in way over my head.

The bitter apple spray, like you mentioned, is supposedly a deterrent for things you don’t want the pup to chew. Given his propensity to chew everything- clip boards, floor moldings, area rugs, the fig tree, ME- I definitely tried it on whatever I could think of, and went through a couple of bottles. I found that initially it was effective, but you need to respray it frequently, and eventually the pup’s will to chew was greater than his aversion to the taste.

I’m also a believer in positive reinforcement training, and it’s really hard for me to subject my dog to anything unpleasant. From what I read about the product that ultimately worked for me, it’s not supposed to be detrimental to the dog. But to be perfectly honest, and this is probably not a super popular perspective, after trying literally everything else and really being at the end of my rope, I think whatever temporary trauma it may have caused the dog was worth it.

Again though, your pup is still a few weeks younger than mine was when I rescued him, and I had a good six months at least of trying more conventional methods to curb the biting.

Sorry for the novel, just wanted to give you as much information as I could. Puppies are hard.

You could try using a Pet Corrector when the dog barks at you. It makes a loud, startling noise. Most dogs dislike it and are startled out of their incessant barking when they hear it.