time outs

Question
I have been reading some of your answer to people questions and you mention "time out" to help train or teach correct behaviors.What type of thing do you use for time outs?  I have a 1 year old Sheltie that at least once a day growl at our older sheltie, who is the alpha. Would time out be good to control this kind of behavior? There is never any teeth shown or other aggression displayed. I don't want this to get any worse.
Charlotte

Answer
Hi Charlotte;
Time out is like sitting a child in the corner.
I did have a German Shepherd, years ago, that when she was naughty, I would tell her to sit in the corner, and she would sit in the conner, facing it until I told her she could get out.LOL
Snapping and growling at each other is about the only offense that is bad enough, to me, for time out. I don't allow fussing and fighting.
Wheh they do it, I chew their little butts up one side and down the other, and tell them if they can't behave nicely, they have to go to time out for punishment. Then I take then to the small bathroom, and put them in there and close the door.
I am nagging and chewing them out all the way.
I leave them for about a half hour for the first 2 or 3 times they do that, then I leave them for about an hour.
After that, if I have to take them that many times, I just have to say "(dog's name)!!! Do you want to go to time out?????"
and they straighten up and act like they are supposed to.
I don't allow anybody to be alpha but me.
They can have a pecking order, like big sisters and brothers, but nne of them can be bossy to the others.
When my Sheltie saw rhe others, ( isualu my little Lhasa) get time out a few times, when he did something and I said "LADDIE!!!!! Do you want to go to time out??" He would give smooches to the one he growled at to opologize. He covers his butt pretty good.LOL
Charlotte