{"id":2363,"date":"2012-02-04T04:23:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T04:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testmaria.satemporary.online\/2012\/02\/04\/2012-02-04-corrections-are-not-punishment\/"},"modified":"2024-04-27T13:43:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T13:43:55","slug":"corrections-are-not-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testmaria.satemporary.online\/2012\/02\/04\/corrections-are-not-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrections are not Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of the things that make me such an effective trainer is that I understnad what consequencial training is and I practice it on a daily basis. Now the media and most dog trainers will villify you if they even see you reading this.<\/p>\n
Keep in mind that the folks that write the books, the articles and teach in classrooms around the country, don’t actually train dogs in the Real World and possibly don’t even train any dogs, some Animal Behaviorists actually never work with dogs they just spew out information that they learned in college.<\/p>\n
There is no education other than actually taking the leash and working the dog through the issue that the client actually presented to you. Most Behaviorists actually never get that far with the client since they don’t get out of the classroom or their office.<\/p>\n
Our society has told us that if it can’t be fixed with a treat than it cannot be fixed. I suggest you go to the thousands of websites that just rehash all from the same textbooks that say you should always reward with either food or a toy and if that does not work you can remove the dog from the area, remove the area from the dog or ignore the issue. I am not quite sure how this is training or behavior modification if anything this just reinforces the bad behavior in the dog.<\/p>\n
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I love the folks that like to tell me how mean it is using a prong collar or an electric collar. Ironically using a flat collar, can choke a dog and kill it, a head harness has been proven to cause significant damage to the neck and spine and dogs have actually broken their necks and died from a head halter. Yep something called a Gentle Leader actually killed a dog.<\/p>\n
Considering the 72% of our countries dogs are overweight, we may want to re-think the treat thing as well. Dog are getting diabeties at an alaming rate in this country and that has been unheard of 10 years ago.<\/p>\n
So, a properly timed correction is a highly effective way to eliminate bad behavior and to keep a dog alive and if you don’t think this is an important point, lets think about the 5 million dogs a year that are killed every year, lets think about the dogs in shelters that are killed daily for something as simple as food guarding. I get at least one email a day about a dog that someone wants to me to take since it will be killed in 24 hours.<\/p>\n
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