| To: kidl who wrote (8495) | 7/11/2024 2:17:40 PM | | From: Sun Tzu | | | | She is putting the dogs through undue hardship and is factually wrong on much of her perspective. However dogs are very adaptable creatures and have evolve to work with humans. So they pull through
Here are the problems with her methods and pov:
Firstly, dogs are not carnivores. So she raising them a diet of raw elk meat on the bone and what not shows her ignorance.
Secondly, there was nothing there about the owner training. By and large, most people will get better behaving dogs if they receive some training rather than putting on the onus on the dog and its trainer.
Finally, the US is not Nairobi or South Sudan. People do not need and cannot provide for a military grade dog. Those who spend this kind of money do it because they have the money and want a status symbol and something to talk about.
And I say this as someone who is not into cutting and pampering dogs. And that is the 3rd problem with the article. The author draws an extreme and shortsighted black and white line between those who believe in aversiveness and those who pamper the dogs and don't train them. Many of us believe there in a proper balance.
Punishment should be for things a dog does that are wrong. Rewards are for what they do right. It seems obvious, but most people don't get this. If you call a puppy and it does not come, punishment is not the right answer because "not coming" is not an action. On the other hand, dog jumping up on strangers or leaping out of the door when you open is an action and punishment is the right action then. |
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