You scold your dog. How does he/she react?

I was just thinking about this.

I would not describe Leo as a soft dog at all. He bounces back from things extremely quickly, and does not shut down while training practically ever. "Ah ah" or "No" just tell him to stop doing something, and don't bother him at all.
Yet he is very attune to the sound of my voice and very quick to say sorry/act submissive if I scold him.

Just now, I came out of the shower and Leo was lying on the couch (he is only allowed up when invited).
I veeeery lightly scolded him. My voice was not raised at all, and with an almost normal voice (with slight annoyance in my voice) I said "Leo, off! You know you are not supposed to go on the couch unless invited. Uh uh, only when I say it's ok, not just because you feel like it."

Leo's response was to immediately jump off the couch and slink up to me, lip licking the whole way, alternating between intentionally looking away from me and gazing sadly into my eyes. He kind of hunched into a down in front of me. If I would have taken a step toward him, I am 100% positive he would have rolled onto his back. This was just from a very light scolding. He absolutely knew that I was a bit upset, from just the slightest inflection of my voice.

Then I stepped back, and soon after spoke to him in an intentionally happy voice, and he immediately jumped up and grabbed a toy, tail wagging.

So, how does your dog react when you scold him/her?

Roxie usually just throws a ton of appeasement signals at me and I forgive her quickly when I say in an exasperated voice, "ROCK-seeeee". And then she rolls over and I give her belly rubs while asking her, "grrr, why do you do these things, dog?"

Sometimes though, I'll say, "HEY!" for worse offenses and she stops doing what she was doing immediately and heels by my side (didn't teach her to do that, either).

And then there's time times when I tell her to go lay down (usually when she's being annoying) and she acts like I just beat her. Which is weird, because I usually just say to her, "go lay down, you nutter".

In training, I say "nope" or similar, and she stops and I can ask her what I wanted again, a little more clearly- she gets it right away and isn't bothered by that at all.

If I even raise my voice a little or sound the slightest bit angry or annoyed with Fable, she will slink up to me and roll on her back. Sometimes she will run and hide in her crate. I think she was abused in the past, and that as made her very sensitive to punishment and submissive. If I say something like "ah ah" or "no" in a reasonable voice, then she is very receptive to it and doesn't shut down at all.

She has certainly improved from rolling on her back whenever I used to look at her, but I still have to be careful with how I scold her.

It depends. If she sniffs something on the coffee table and we give her a "ah-ah, stop" she will simply obey and act normal. If she was doing something really bad (like, idk, chewing on the couch, which she has never done by the way lol) then she will act very slouchy, lip-licky, tail between the legs and appeasing, even if we haven't found out what she has done wrong yet. She tends to react to the tone of our voice and the urgency that we say it. We get a very different reaction by saying "ah-ah" vs "HEY! STOP THAT!"

I'd say she is on the softer side when scolding. She's a bit sensitive lol.

Liz throws all sorts of appeasement signals and completely shuts down for the most minor of scolding - she is super soft, and can be challenging because of it.

Rage thinks she can do no wrong and I can't possibly be talking to her... if I yell at her for going into the kitchen or something when she thinks no ones watching, she'll just come trotting back out wagging her tail. She listens good, and really doesn't seem to mind being scolded.

Keena does the appeasement thing, too, but will try offering other behaviors to please you/not shut down.

Bruce... barks back at me. Which I find both infuriating and adorable. If you lean over/towards him and scold him, sometimes he will roll over. But he also rolls over when he knows you are going to pick him up to take him for bedtime.

Daisy is so old and senile she has no idea you are talking to her, and if she does she gives no f***s.

This, but with Chomper.

If I scold Watson, he laughs at me. He couldn't care less about being scolded.

Watson is weirdly soft. He does not care at all if I yell and scream at him, and physical corrections usually don't mean anything to him. But if he's in a mood and thinks you're being unfair, he will shut down so fast. He's like split personality hard/soft.

Dekka thinks eeeh or bad dog are one of her names :rofl1: If you yell at her she flings her self at you all wiggly and happy.

This is the dog who when she was young would get upset if I was talking on the phone for ages if she wanted something. So she would stand on the kitchen table (which she knew was not ok) and kinda wiggle there till I yelled at her. Then she would come running and fling herself at me.

I have tried for a little suppression at times on the agility but she doesn't care at all. She just barks back (yay yelling buddies!)

Dekka's mom was hard like her but Kaiden is super soft. If he even thought you might be annoyed or disappointed he would shut down.

It really all depends with Abrams. We can yell no at him all day long and he just doesn't care. Same with physical corrections (pushing him out of the way, bonking him on the head, etc.) However, if he is doing something inappropriate and we are actually MAD at him...that is when it sinks in. He immediately stops what he's doing, grovels, and offers appeasement behaviors. Then when he's been forgiven he tends to get really excited and butt tuck all over the place and bark, which is really annoying. Haha

Cynder wilts. She melts into the floor and doesn't exisit again until she's been forgiven.

Toby is sensitive. It takes nothing more than a 'No' or a quick/stern "Toby!" for him to know we're upset. He makes himself very small and slinks off.

We don't hit him or anything, but if you step towards him he acts like he thinks you might and will run away. You have to be very neutral with him and if he was with a handler who used negative techniques I could see him breaking down quickly.

Unless Toby is doing something really wrong we don't tend to scold him at all just because he is so sensitive. I try to use meal times or my daughters milk bottles that she often drops on the floor as a way to re-enforce 'leave it' rather than scolding him for licking the nip or taking food from her.
He's allowed on the couch so that's never an issue... Probably the only time he gets scolded is if he's caught chewing something he shouldn't be. Normally he's good about sticking to his bones and toys but he goes on random "everything needs to be chewed" spurts and gets into EVERYTHING and then goes back to chewing his stuff.

If Sam even thinks I'm mad at him he gets so so sad and will slink towards me licking his lips or go hide in his kennel. He's a really sensitive dog and shuts down easily when he senses any negativity. He's actually a good indicator of my mood because if he senses I'm anxious or upset about something he WILL NOT work with me.

Oddly enough Wilson, despite being fearful of a bunch of stuff, doesn't give a flying **** if I'm upset with him. I could scream bloody murder at him and he would come back all butt wiggles and bouncy and happy, which I think is a really nice quality about him. Usually if I just say "nahhh" at him when he's being bad he stops what he's doing.

Muffin is super soft. I usually just have to say his name in an upset tone and he stops whatever he's doing.

That said my dogs generally never get terribly upset when I yell. Which is probably because I yell and stomp like a crazy person, but then get all happy and give them treats when they come up to me. Which is usually bc they are doing something they shouldn't be and I want them to stop.

What gets them really upset is when I give off frustrated signals which is different than me scolding them. When I start getting frustrated they know they aren't "doing it right," I'm upset, and the game is going to stop soon. When I yell, they stop, I get happy.

Scolded=fixable, Frustrated=not fixable.

Greyhounds are very soft. If Kili hears yelling, even of not directed at her, she goes whale eyed and puts her ears back. If you scold her she immediately looks like she's been beaten and tries to run away. Hence we don't use much scolding in this household.

Pepper would run away crying.

The boys think it's an invitation to play. Payton will probably even go get a toy and throw it at me.

If he does something small that only annoys me a bit (like picking up something he shouldn't) and I just say "No" he usually just drops it and doesn't care that I told him to. But if he's actually made really irritated (he's tagged me getting too excited about tugging, jumped on my lap when I had my laptop on, etc.) and I say "HUUGGGGOOO" he knows I'm actually upset and will slink up all sad and submissive. He's not happy again until I say "okay, let's make up!" in a happy voice and he runs into my arms all wiggly, lol.

Lo just stares boldly at me for a few seconds and then goes back to doing whatever she was doing.

Lucy goes ears back and tries to crawl into my skin if I even sound slightly dissaproving. If I scold Lola and Lucy's 3 rooms away, she'll come running over to apologize.

My dogs growing up were like this. The one who never did anything wrong always apologized when we scolded her brother, and he didn't care one bit.

Mia looks at your for like 2 seconds then goes back to her business.

Hank gets a bit sad but is mostly confused.

Summer is so soft. She will come see me when another dog gets told no. Wants to make sure we are still friends.

Well, my definition of scolding is for behaviours I'd just prefer they didn't do, not something, say, that could kill them (running in traffic as an extreme example). In other words, any time I'd use their full names (except Holly because I just couldn't say "Hotsy" with a straight face).

But Holly is a thief and needs to be stopped in her tracks sometimes. She'll just walk over and swipe something that's sitting on a table (even tried a figurine one time!). When we chastise her she'll gently put it down with a "Oh, so sorry, was this yours?" look and walk off. Btw, she never destroys anything she steals, she just likes collecting stuff. She's really taught the kids to put stuff away well.

Jesse's a spook so we're a little more careful with him. He usually looks all sad and hurt and will come over and try to hide his head in your lap.

Rigg's a bit of an dork. Seriously. I've got an old leather couch in the office that is theirs, he thinks it's a cow that needs to be groomed. Drives me nuts because the reason they have it is so I don't have to get on the floor to cuddle with them (bad knees). I am SO not sitting on a slimy spot on the couch! If I chastise him for it he'll stop in mid-slurp, then keep licking, slower, while keeping his eyes on me. Second time's a charm (using his full name), he'll flop over and groan and moan at me. Funny thing is that for actual training, he's the one who listens the best and picks stuff up the fastest.

Chloe the nearly 12 year old shih tzu looks at me boldy and then goes back to what she was doing.

Louis the 7 month old Bouvier just immediately stops whatever he was doing, and goes back to life as normal.