My name is Robert, and I am so tired of watching the entire dog training industry blatantly lie to dog owners to make money. It’s nothing more than a system of extortion – to make you afraid of your dog and for your dog.
I’ve been watching this show for a long time. I watched helplessly over the last 15 plus years as IGP/Schutzhund dog training took over everything dog. They dragged all the tools of IGP into the behavior arena.
15 plus years ago – treat training was a last resort, use the treats, train the dog then lose the treats. But here we are 15 plus years on – now it’s always have a treat bag on your side? If treats were training tools – you wouldn’t need the insurance policy. They are not training tools – they are not Positive Reinforcements. They are Primary Inducements – bribes. You are trying to use an inducement to bribe your dog to do something for you. When the bribes don’t work on the dogs behavior?
15 plus years ago, prongs and e-collars were a tool of last resort. Use the tool, train the dog, then get rid of the tool. But here we are – 15 years later – these tools are now an insurance policy. Always leave it on – why bother taking it off?
But these trainers dare to call these things “training tools”? If they were actually training tools – you wouldn’t need them for the life of the dog right? Someone is lying – and it’s not me.
How do I define dog training? Man fears that which he does not understand – if he can’t control and manage it – he destroys it. And as a result of all this training nonsense, millions of dogs are dead – killed for bad behaviors by a group of people that can’t even define the word behavior. How can you claim to be an “expert” in something that you cannot define? Welcome to the fraud called dog training.
The number one thing I hear from dog owners as a result of all this garbage dog training? “I don’t trust my dog”. Well, hate to break it to you – if you don’t trust your dog, then there is no relationship to be had – and there never was. If you can’t trust your spouse, then there is no relationship – period. It’s toxic, it’s trauma bonding, tends to end up narcissistic.
Dog training isn’t concerned about you building a healthy relationship based on mutual trust and respect – they want you in a toxic relationship of reward and punishment. They want you in that transactional relationship and that begins from the time the dog is a puppy.
Most of these dogs have no clue as to what a solid relationship with a human is – all they know is toxic. And we wonder why they have behavioral issues?