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Training that is taking place is being done with an electric collar which the dog is wearing and the trainer has a remote
to control the shocks. The exercise being taught is called a forced retrieve, where the dog is shocked when he does not accept
the object into his mouth or when he drops the object and he soon learns that the only way to avoid the shock it to keep hold
of the item until he is asked to drop it.
Comment 1:
Anyone who has seen
videos of people being tortured, or read accounts of the cruelty inflicted on women, children or people from different ethnic
background will immediately recognise the scenario. The poor unfortunate victim is given no alternatives, and is kept in a
state of stress, lack of control, fear and helplessness. The pressure is maintained for a long period of time to further reduce
the body's ability to recover and cope.
The dog's extreme resistance to anything that man attempted was tragic and
an indictment of all thinking behind using this form of device for training.
The dog could have been trained to retrieve
anything willingly, freely, actively and reliably using positive behavioural shaping methods in a week. It is not rocket science.
Nervous dogs can be reshaped to be more calm, confident and self-controlled, so that they don't need muzzles.
The
trainer's arrogant and overbearing manner is the same posture we see in torturers, and is entirely based on the piece of electric
shock equipment he has in his hand - not on any skill, understanding, emphathy or talent.
Humans do not have the right
to do this to animals, just because they can get away with it. It is a travesty to call this training, and a tragedy that
it is on the net for people to see and possibly accept as normal or reasonable.
Nina Bondarenko 24.07.06
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