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Poshi I find your questions interesting, reasonable, and quite logical. Yes it is accurate to say that a TRUE correction is defined as a stimuli (aversive /punisher either physical or mental) ) that modifies a behavior so as not to repeat. Yes it would then also be correct to say that continual repe...

Lets a take a GL for example. 1. I was suggest that a person first simply research the mechanics of the GL in how it is designed to function by reading the manufacturers description on various web sites. To sum it up the GL acts as a force training tool to deliver a discomforting and often painful p...

All I would dare say at this point without further sounding critical or negative is that it is evident that Victoria does not appreciate,condone, or recommend the use of what could be considered threatening body gestures/language ,threating facial expressions, and threatening verbals in teaching,con...

[/quote] This sounds like there are no bad trainers or behaviourists in the USA, I am assuming you are from there, which I do know is not true. That is not what is being said and I am not sure how you would gather that from what I said? You may know the right trainers to go to, they don't, our vets ...

I did take the time to express those views in my last post?

cheers

I am not sure exactly what you are referring to but seldem have I experience a dog needing to be PTS when rehabbed by the various experts that I have dealt with unless one had a chemical or confirmed imbalance by several specialists which was a rare occurance. There was always a exceptable outcome a...

sorry about the repeats as I thought I was in the edit mode...

Been there done that and do that every day in my profession. It was not untill I was put into the position of determining which dog lives and which dog dies as a profession and had to learned to ask the question just who is the best skilled at asking such opinions concerning rehab. I concur there is...

Mattie in attempts to be most focused like a lazer on my curiousity let me try and elaborate further. As a trainer who has been around many years using everything out there I have experience thousands of times people saying things like "we tried that method" or "we tried that tool&quo...

I think this currently is what the american tv commercial of DON SULLIVAN is now doing and marketing today. Many dogs over the years were and are still trained this way and achieve top recognition across all venues of dog performance and pet ownership. OK, as an American with a TV and satellite dis...

" "We cannot control our dogs with strength, they will always win, it is the people who try to control them with strength that put all the gadgets on them instead of teaching the dogs what they want them to do. I am always seeing owners of very small dogs pick them up to control them becau...

Boardhost having not watched that particular episode my question and curiousty still stands in inquiring if (everything was tried" if a leading expert using alternative conditioning methods was utlized and was unsuccesful? Working in rescue for 2 decades has taught me that sometimes a second op...

Having been to 2 taping events,watching his shows, and having a friend who took his dog to Ceaser for training there is without a doubt that ceaser has used and will use about any aversive method he deems fit at the time. I have personnaly witnessed Ceaser flooding,kicking,hanging,jabbing,poking,jer...

Many many years ago choke chains were the common tool that you would be required to use for training your dog. The idea is to create a discomforting or painful consequence to a unwanted behavior hoping that this action of the tool whatever it might end up being will act as a correction. problem is o...

Hopefully I can keep this from being too long when commenting on my issues with chokes,prongs,shock collars and/or e-collars,and head halters like the GL for example. I should prefice that I have observed in my 20+years of working with many dogs and the use of all 4 quads in operant condtioning that...