Re: [PyrNet-L] Re: pinch and electric collars

[Bluebonnet <bluebonnet_72@yahoo.com>]

 Dogs in
> particular bend over backwards to understand us, and
> read us.  We make
> very little effort to do the same for them.  

    I would hardly think that thinking like a dog
think  would lead to a more gentle method of
correction.  If we look at dog society, we do not find
them offering food to each other in order to cajole
other pack members into obedience. 

Some
> people feel that we
> should use other, less abusive ways of working with
> them toward a common
> goal.  The extent that we try, may be the extent
> that we care.
> Why is your dog pulling, what might be done to stop
> that behavior? 

    Because he wants to be in charge and choose the
direction we go.  In the end though, I do believe my
dogs are happier with me in charge.  Dogs naturally
want someone to be in charge, since we do live in a
human ordered society it makes sense for it to be the
human.  If it is the dog, then, chasing deer in public
parks, or running and jumping on the neighbors will be
the norm.

 Maybe
> for some of us a shock collar or a pinch collar (
> with those large prongs
> sticking in to a dogs neck ) is an indication that
> we don't seem to be
> able to do better by animals.  

    The minute a prong collar sticks INTO my dogs neck
it comes off.  It presses against the skin, not
through or into it.  In fact, they shouldn't even be
pressing against the skin the vast majority of the
time.  
  
                Brandy

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