Yahoo Lifestyle Parents Create Hilarious 'Penalty Box' for Mischievous Husky and Golden Retriever Duo
Two human siblings will always find a way to get in trouble, and so will two pet siblings. Fighting is natural, just like pulling off elaborate schemes is. A good pair of siblings, no matter their species, will do both.
On Friday, September 12th, a pair of parents learned this the hard way, and they decided to try and curb the behavior. They constructed an adorable penalty box for their Golden Retriever and Husky duo... though whether it worked is up to you to decide:
Blue the Siberian and his matching Husky brother, Titan, are usually the perpetrators, though they love to blame it on Maverick. He's been doing it ever since he was a puppy!
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Blue and Titan (the Huskies) are the older siblings here; Maverick (the Golden Retriever) is still just a puppy. Arguably, that makes his crimes excusable: he's still learning to navigate the world and his own body! He's finally big enough to do things like drink out of the toilet, and he's always been known to play a little rough with the cat. Interesting, the cat spends no time in the penalty box!
The penalty box is absolutely not a punishment for any of the boys: they have no idea what's happening, and if you watch, you can see their tails wagging. They love the penalty box just as much as their parents do!
Should You Punish Dogs With Confinement?
Blue, Titan, Maverick, and the cat are not actually confined in their penalty box (or anywhere else) when they commit crimes. It's just a funny photo op! However, when dogs do something people don't like, "time-out" is a very real thing.
If your dog does something "bad," time-out can be a perfectly effective tool to squash the behavior. You can literally remove them from the situation and put them somewhere else, like your bedroom, or you can give them an "attention" time out and ignore them for a few minutes.
When giving your pup a time-out, make sure you don't:
Use their crate, as that could build a negative association.
Confine them to a small or uncomfortable space.
Hit them or kick them.
Drag it out for longer than about two minutes.
The goal of a time-out is partially to get them to calm down, and partially to realize that their behavior was not what you wanted. If they're feeling hurt or scared when you're "disciplining" them, they won't even recognize what the discipline is for. Luckily for these three boys, that discipline is mostly just some mild internet shaming!
