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OT - "Liberal Lies" - Forged Post
By now you have posted the quote so many times it is
impossible to find the original in google. Let's get to the bottom of this. The context of the discussion - which was two or three years ago- was that we were talking about spontaneous, odd, one-time things that you wouldn't normally use or recommend, but which turn out to be effective with individual dogs. Someone- not a regular poster, and I can't even remember his name or what kind of dog he had, although IIRC it was a terrier- posted something about growling into his puppy's throat when all other methods of trying to teach the dog not to play-bite had failed. I replied briefly about a one-time situation I got into some years back- one NOT of my making- wherein a large Labrador who was attached to me (she weighed 85 lbs at the time; I weighed under 100) suddenly went berserk because some other dogs had been released to run. She was endangering both herself and me, and after a few seconds of trying to get her attention verbally, I instinctively reverted to martial arts training and used a judo technique to contain her momentarily - all I needed to do was get her under control long enough to release her. I did, indeed, also take hold of her ear for a split second and make a loud growling noise. It was the general equivalent of grabbing a hysterical person in a bear hug and yelling "HEY!" in their ear loud enough to startle them back into their senses. With that ONE dog, in that ONE situation, it was the right thing to do. It wasn't anything I'd ever done before or since, was NOT at all what I'd call a training technique, nor would I ever recommend that anyone do anything like it- pure and simple, it was an instinctive response to a dangerous situation. My only intent was to contain the dog long enough to release her, and it was management, not training. In any case, our resident loon took part of my post - snips from two different sentences, I believe, with context and some joining words removed- and part of the terrier owner's post (the bit about growling into the throat), reworded them, cobbled them together into one sentence, and added several words of his own as well as his own punctuation and capitalization. |
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