Below is an article I picked up from a Chicago newspaper. Once again it concerns the use of cruel training gadgets on dogs. Every dog owner should read this as a cautionary tale. It’s horrific not only for what this woman has done but the justification she uses. In essence what she says is that it’s alright to attach an electric shock collar to a dogs genitals and if anyone complains then they’re only doing so because she’s black or a woman (or maybe both). No thought that it is wrong to torture a dog then? It’s much easier to blame someone else. Wrong! If you either treat a dog this way or allow anyone else to do so then it matters not what gender, race, colour or religion you are this is still cruel and unacceptable. If it’s not illegal in your part of the world then it should be.
I know that I talk about this subject a lot and annoy the hell out a lot of ‘traditional trainers’ or sellers of cruel training gadgets (often one and the same people) but it really is important. Whichever method that you choose to train your dog, please ensure that you are involved at every stage. Please don’t let someone charge you a lot of money, take your best friend away and then return them days or weeks later ‘trained’. You don’t know what’s happened to your dog or what equipment has been used. Even if you’ve found the best trainer in the world how can you carry on the training if you’ve not been party to it? If the dog has bonded with anyone it will be with the trainer not you. You are the one after all, who handed total control of your dog to a stranger. How can he trust you not to do the same again sometime in the future?
Your dog, your best friend and certainly your responsibility.
Click on and read the following link, you will, I hope, be angry. But at the same time see the positive side in that people are no longer sitting back and accepting this behaviour just because someone on TV says it’s ok. I’ve left some of the comments to the paper attached as well. They make interesting reading, particularly if you have an interest in following the links to the bigger story.