LETS DO A DISRUPTIVE THINKING DD. WE GAVE A DOG TO A WOMAN AND AFTER THE USUAL TRAIING INTRODUCTION, I DID EXPLAIN IT WOUD LTAKE 6 MONTHS TO REALLY GET IN STEP... SHE THOUGHT ABOUT THaT ( BRIGHT LADY) and decided she would take a daily walk in the quietest place she could think of... a lovely cemetary nearby-- she had an awful time-- dog was terribley distracting-- not even walking a straight line. i suggested she go to the. local mall to practice... and bingo... dog was perfect---
so perfect tht she went back to work at mass general. which involved subways and traffic.. dog was fine...
hands up for those who've figured the reason....in teh human's mind-- the cemetry is literally dead quiet... .however to a dog... it is squirrel heaven... with thqt perception in mind... the mall or subway. is very dull for a dog...
ok... so let's take some training concepts-- and think--- dog type thought.
some places put puppies with families-- good socialization and bacsic training.... all well and good.... pup graduates to the formal trqining facility. and finally another family.
now... i am sure.... only because i have een this sooooo. many heartbreaking time-- the poor pup is left wondering what happened to my real family. as the would be trainer slaps on a gentle leader-- and the poor dog is left to serve someone to whom he has never bonded.--
i did that just once. the spotted dog that took jade across her graduation stage... with no basic training.... she had been raised by a family in lynnfield and i just happenee to witness the moment when they finally met after a year-- it was so catastrophic that i gave teh dog back to the puppy raising family... you couol d not humanely peql that dog away from the family that she had loved,jade got anotehr dog.
this is why at serv dog... we don't allow any one person to handle teh same dog too often..
i do not want the dog to bond with the person then take it away... i do think thqt is cruel..
plus i bet it is why so many are having to use gentel leaders -- which dog hate...
"oh he does not mind?????" he mav have resolved himself to having to wear the thing arcross shis nose.. but i hav not seen on e that like ti.
i have seen so many trainiers sticking dogs in crates--- it is easy--- and keeps your numbers up... but makes for a miserqable dog....
so i am a bout to get on a bandwagon to have people stop and think about the misery for dogs caused by the puppy raising concept--- the y loved thier origional family and someone took them away...
it takes more time, planning and money to raise them as we do.. but out dogs are happy workers !!
