There is a wonderful article on page 17 about dog behaviour. It is bang up to date and based on scientific evidence :lol:
If you haven't read it then the gist of it is that all these TV dog trainers, telling dog owners that their dogs are trying to "dominate" them when they are misbehaving, have been talking a load of old squit. It goes on to say that scientific evidence shows that "rank reducing" a dog does nothing to improve the dog's behaviour and may cause the dog to become aggressive 8O . Reward based training, it tells us, is the most effective way to train a dog :lol: .
In this country we have people like Prof Peter Neville, Sarah Whitehead, David Appleby and Robert Falconer-Taylor all experts in the field of dog behaviour. They all refuse to make TV programmes until they are given editorial control. This is because all the hard work that goes into turning a problem dog around ends up on the cutting room floor :evil: . All the viewer sees is a naughty dog turned into a paragon of virtue in the space of a half hour programme. The small print telling them how long it actually took is lost in the excitement of the moment.
If you haven't read it then the gist of it is that all these TV dog trainers, telling dog owners that their dogs are trying to "dominate" them when they are misbehaving, have been talking a load of old squit. It goes on to say that scientific evidence shows that "rank reducing" a dog does nothing to improve the dog's behaviour and may cause the dog to become aggressive 8O . Reward based training, it tells us, is the most effective way to train a dog :lol: .
In this country we have people like Prof Peter Neville, Sarah Whitehead, David Appleby and Robert Falconer-Taylor all experts in the field of dog behaviour. They all refuse to make TV programmes until they are given editorial control. This is because all the hard work that goes into turning a problem dog around ends up on the cutting room floor :evil: . All the viewer sees is a naughty dog turned into a paragon of virtue in the space of a half hour programme. The small print telling them how long it actually took is lost in the excitement of the moment.