Quote:
Originally Posted by jimthefiend
You're missing an important point. In nature, "gentle" violence is an integral part of the pack social structure.
Whatever though.
|
I know what you're saying, it's an old school training method and of course it works.
Are you familiar at all with Schutzhund training? It's the working dog training and competitions you see Rottweilers, Shepards etc doing. It requires the arguably the greatest measure of obedience control because dogs must not only be aggressive looking and react fast, but must also "out" when they're told, as well as back off the helper and escort walking "prisoners" etc. It's not attack training because the dogs behave in pray and not fight drive. If the helper takes the bite mit off, the dog will go for the bite mit and ignore the helper. In any case, dogs that are trained with positive methods that do not include hitting or forcing the dog to do anything are proving to be much better dogs than dogs trained with the old school stick method.
Food for thought.