Any one who tells you positive training is the ONLY method of dog training has obviously never been around any dog with any sort of serious problem. I have read and talk to many positive only trainers who will admit that their method doesn't work. But that applies everywhere is any trainer ever tells you their method is the only humane safe or correct method you need to run the other way. Its one of the reasons I dislike Victoria Stilwell in the great Cesar Millan Vs. Victoria Stilwell debate. Victoria will tell you her way is the only correct way and Cesar admits to there being other methods and to do right by your dog. Just like every child is different every dog is different there is no incorrect way as long as the dog understands.
So again someone told me today I should get Doodles a harness and I told them no, he needs to learn to walk properly on a collar and leash alone. And they told me it was mean and wrong and could hurt him, I said look my boxer figured it out at 1 1/2 years old I think my jack russell can too. They they ranted about positive training and how it was the ONLY way to train a dog.... So here is where I sit, lots of so called positive trainers make exceptions for dogs... so your dog cant walk on a collar they should just get a harness and forget it... Somehow I think that is wrong. Most of my dogs get harnesses later in life after they learn to use a collar. There have been many times I have forgotten their harness and was thankful they were polite on a collar. My favorite was when I was told that touching a dog was wrong. If you dog cant be lured into a sit then showing them by putting their butt on the ground and rewarding it was wrong. If your dog couldn't get sit without being touched forget it your dog just cant learn it... Maybe its me but I think lots of positive trainers need to reevaluate their methods.
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