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TPW troll posts.
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:37:31 +0100, "Jonathan"
wrote: I was just wondering, In some of the posts from Jerry, you get:- "the trainer said that I had to intimidate my dog" or ".. my dog had to fear me more than he desired to chase a rabbit" etc. Has anyone ever actually heard an approved trainer talk like that in the States? I may be naive, but anyone talking like that would be kicked out of the training group I have visited. There is a certain amount of 'control' going on- I.e. when in the class, and instruction should be obeyed, but the trainers seemed to always manage that by perseverence and some clever body language stuff (that I wish I could emulate better!). Just wondering if things are different over there! Cheers, J. I am the owner of a 2-1/2 year old female dog who came from fighting/protection stock and was quite aggressive and snarly as a puppy. A number of people pointed me toward training resources that emphasized force and intimidation as the best tools for controlling such an animal. Jerry advised the opposite approach -- one based on praise and distraction This is what I did. I followed some of the exercises in Jerry's manual, and found they actually worked. Before long, my dog was so slavishly loyal to me that my commands easily overcame her instinctive tendency to charge people in my driveway and scare the **** out of them. Now my dog is a model citizen, extremely well-socialized, instinctively tuned to appropriate behavior and highly OBEDIENT in all situations, especially the ones where it matters. So, I'd say Jerry is a mixed bag -- a Catskills comic with some real knowledge. Charlie |
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