Today, I was talking to my brother about how careless people are. Minutes later, I shocked myself with my dog's shock-collar. FML
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Today, my brother thought it would be hilarious to put his dog shock collar on me to wake me in lieu of my alarm. You know how those cartoon characters look when they're electrocuted? That's exactly how I woke up. FML
Today, at my surprise birthday party, my neighbor gave me a new dog collar. My dog was run over by him a week ago. FML
Today, my dogs broke through our electric fence, one of whom managed to get his collar off. I picked it up and, without thinking, went across the fence line. I screamed like a chihuahua being run over by a bulldozer. FML
Today, my neighbor's dog came to visit and I tried to bring him back home like I usually do. Only this time, when I grabbed the dog's collar, they zapped him! And it zapped me! My teeth still hurt! FML
Today, I let my dogs out, and then realized they didn't have their electric fence collars on. I ran inside to get the collars, then dashed out to put them on my dogs. I ran through the electric fence. The collars were on. FML
Today, I was walking my dog when another dog barked at him. My dog ran, pulling me with him. I fell to the ground in pain, with my hand still holding the leash. FML
Today, our electric horse fence broke. I turned it off so I could fix it. As I was grabbing the fence, my brother thought it would be hilarious to turn the fence back on. FML
Today, it's been a week since my brother asked me to watch his dog while he's on a business trip. I let his dog out to do his business, and he ran right in front of a pickup. The driver didn't stop in time, and crushed the dog's head. I went to check on him. He's dead, and I will be too when my brother gets back. FML
Today, as I was walking my dog, some self-righteous animal activist berated me on how it was animal abuse to put my dog on a leash. Despite warning her, she crouched down to undo it, my dog charged at her, giving her a gash on the cheek. She kicked my dog for it, and is now threatening to sue me. FML
Today, I was having a playful fight with my brother. I made the point that our dog likes me better than him. To this, my dog jumped onto the sofa, turned to me and vomited on my face. FML
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Enslaved 38
Good! Now you'll know how your dog feels if you chose to use such a cruel device. There are much better ways to train your pet than shocking them to obey.
itwontvalidate 18
that's just stupid
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Comments (141)
dawood_k 27
Glad you felt the pain your dog feels... I'm not even a dog lover but feel that's just down right cruel!!!
energizerbunny23 18
And that is why you leave the collar in your dog.. Unless you're into that kind of thing.
mchmelev1993 10
You deserve that lolz
Ziggy122 15
There's this thing called positive reinforcement, which is much more effective than shocking your dog to get them to obey.
orbit 22
Even with positive reinforcement you need something to tell them they are doing something wrong. Weather it be noises, corrective collars, flicking their nose, etc. With shock collars the dog sees it as an outside force stopping him from doing what he is doing, and not the owner. So in my eyes it is a reasonable form of training.
Razi_tail 25
110 instead of teaching what not to do, positive reinforcement teaches them what to do. Basically instead of always saying "no don't do that" or "no that's wrong" without any instruction (as shock collars give ZERO instruction on what the right thing to do is) PR tells the animal "yes that's correct!" What do you think would be more effective? You go to a new job and every time you try to use a machine you get shocked. The boss wants to to get your work done but doesn't give you feedback on what to do. After a while you will eventually give up and walk away because you continually got shocked. Your boss is furious and you don't know why or what you did wrong. That is how the dog feels with "training" with shock collars. PR gives you rewards for doing something right where shock collars only "reward" you without getting a painful shock.
Jenniesaurus 14
There is absolutely NO need for you to use a shock collar. Only people I knew that ever used them were lazy owners who couldn't be bothered to train their dogs properly with repeated praise/scolding. Your dog deserves better, and you deserve what happened. I hope it hurt.
vikky538 29
every dog has a day..karma shocked you today... I hope you will stop using that on that poor dog...
catanita 18
Kinky.
PoisonOrchid 21
This was my first thought too after I laughed. I know several people that have shock collars made for pets, but used for very different reasons...
itsjusttofunny 8
ydi for using a shock collar! asshole.
LavenderCrow 12
Stop judging OP. Just because some people don't agree with using a shock collar doesn't mean it's not a viable method of training. Every dog is different and responds differently to training techniques. If I'd used a shock collar on my previous dog, he would have been devastated. I use one now on my current dog because he's the most hard-headed bastard I've ever owned. I would trust that his owner (hopefully) knows what they're doing and uses it accordingly, not excessively.
Zizek 2
I hope you got a massage how it is and stop using it! Use brains with training your dog, not force!!!