Dr. Ian Dunbar, author and pioneer in the area of puppy training, is coming to Dallas this weekend. I am attending the “Science-Based Dog Training (with Feeling)” seminar so if you’re in the area or also attending the seminar, let me know.
I believe we should teach a dog to cooperate with us. I believe that we achieve a lot more if we give a dog a good life experience. I prefer knowing a dog follows me around because it wants to, not because it fears what’s going to happen if it doesn’t. I want my dog to behave well because it wants to behave well. I think that it’s a great human weakness to believe in punitive training methods, and I believe it does great psychological damage to the dog. We’re the ones with the bigger brain, so instead of punishing the dog into behaving, can we not come up with something that gives the dog confidence? I think it’s cowardly as well. Anyone can train a dog by yanking a dog’s collar and putting it over on its side.
– Victoria Stilwell
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