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Originally Posted by goodvic2
Sorry, have to disagree with this. A respectful dog will not pull but will follow you. The same way they should not charge through door ways first. My dogs have never been taught to "heel" in the training sense, the same way I have never taught them not to run down the stairs first. They just do all this because it is what I expect.
I think people talk about training far to much, which is human psychology on a dog, rather than work with what the dog understands. I think the sooner people cotton on to this, the happier our dogs will be and the better behaved.  |
Hi,
The suggestions I gave were relevant and helpful, so to just dismiss them is not very constructive. By dismissing them you are also dismissing renowned dog trainers like Ian Dunbar, Turid Rugaas, Karen Pryor, Jean Donaldson, Patricia McConnell and many more.
I am aware your approach is based on dominance/pack theory, so I can understand why you disagree with my suggestions, but it is very blinkered to think that a dog will
only follow you or not go through doorways first if they respect you. This is just not correct, it helps of course, but if a dog has been trained not to pull and not to charge through doorways first, then they won't, regardless of whether they respect you or not. And in a sense using the word respect is also applying human psychology to dogs. But hey we're humans so we have to use words
Not quite sure what you mean when you write
rather than work with what the dog understands???
If this means the dominant and corrective approach, then I don't agree with this way.
I am a positive trainer and my approach is based on scientifically proven learning theory. The same learning theory that is used to train killer whales at marine shows!