Winterspring
Well-Known Member
I didn't like Cesar Milan's approach to dog training, because even though I watched his show and he seemed to have great success, it never seemed like the people would get to have any FUN with their dogs. (Wrestling, mooshing, flopping around like doofuses together...whatever floats your boat...)
So I thought Victoria Stilwell's Positive Only method would work when we got Taurus. Well, in the Fila forums, I posted a thread called "Furious" because the @#$%^&* that came to our home for the bargain price of a hundred and fifty clams sat there for an hour and a half telling us that, in paraphrased terms, that our dog was a fearful, aggressive, dangerous mess of a dog, and that this stupid clicker would fix all our problems, because she read three paragraphs on the breed after I'd called her, and decided that my dog was a menace to society. Sure, he's been sitting and lying down better, but he also has started trying to anticipate my commands when there's food involved. ("Food driven" is not an extreme enough descriptor. If anyone has any suggestions on how to stop this monster from shoving his fat head under our arms at the dinner table, to say nothing of the fact that we have to put him in another room if we want to watch something while we eat in the living room, feel free to send suggestions our way. He's horrible.)
We've been trying to do PO. It just doesn't work with him! And evidently, according to that article, will never work, and now it makes sense!
AB, ruth, dogman and several others have suggested a prong collar, and I used to be staunchly against it. But after what they told me, I've considered it. Yeah, I saw the horror photos on Google Image, but from what I saw regarding the links that were posted for my benefit (THANK YOU, whoever that was...I'm sorry I can't remember which of you did that for me) and compared them to the horror pics, I realized that the prong collars were NOT fitted correctly, and had sharp edges, which they are NOT supposed to have, and were used in TOTALLY the wrong way!
So much more makes sense now. Thank you!
So I thought Victoria Stilwell's Positive Only method would work when we got Taurus. Well, in the Fila forums, I posted a thread called "Furious" because the @#$%^&* that came to our home for the bargain price of a hundred and fifty clams sat there for an hour and a half telling us that, in paraphrased terms, that our dog was a fearful, aggressive, dangerous mess of a dog, and that this stupid clicker would fix all our problems, because she read three paragraphs on the breed after I'd called her, and decided that my dog was a menace to society. Sure, he's been sitting and lying down better, but he also has started trying to anticipate my commands when there's food involved. ("Food driven" is not an extreme enough descriptor. If anyone has any suggestions on how to stop this monster from shoving his fat head under our arms at the dinner table, to say nothing of the fact that we have to put him in another room if we want to watch something while we eat in the living room, feel free to send suggestions our way. He's horrible.)
We've been trying to do PO. It just doesn't work with him! And evidently, according to that article, will never work, and now it makes sense!
AB, ruth, dogman and several others have suggested a prong collar, and I used to be staunchly against it. But after what they told me, I've considered it. Yeah, I saw the horror photos on Google Image, but from what I saw regarding the links that were posted for my benefit (THANK YOU, whoever that was...I'm sorry I can't remember which of you did that for me) and compared them to the horror pics, I realized that the prong collars were NOT fitted correctly, and had sharp edges, which they are NOT supposed to have, and were used in TOTALLY the wrong way!
So much more makes sense now. Thank you!