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Originally Posted by QuickSilver  I feel like we are splitting hairs here. Of course the CONCEPT of drugs isn't new, that doesn't mean anti-depressants and studies on their success in dogs isn't new. I'm befuddled here.
And of course some things can't be scientifically tested, but that area shrinks year by year.
I guess I just disagree with you on Cesar know what dogs "really need". To me, he says they are fulfilled by not behaving in ways that bother their owners. Just for the record, I don't think VS is a ground breaking trainer either - however, she has obviously stayed current on modern techniques. Again, I think if Cesar were truly innovative, scientists would be motivated to study what he was doing, because scientists want to understand things, even if they do not appear to analyzable with current methods. Animal researchers love watching horse whisperers and all kinds of people who have special bonds with animals. |
How do you know they aren 't studying it? But it is rather difficult to test because each dog is an individual and depending on how they were raised and what their issues are they require different things. no two dogs problems are exactly the same. So you are not comparing apples to apples.
But the real issue here is whether or not he abuses dogs. that is what the original accusations were.
Whether or not his methods are new or out dated or old methods revised is not the issue. My guess is that his methods were used a few hundred years ago when people knew their dogs and dogs had a purpose and were not beaten and abused and were not penned up in apartments alone for 12 hours a day, and their owners were not on Prozac and were not taken from their mothers at 6 weeks old and sold at flea markets to idiots that have no bsiness owning a pet rat let alone a dog.
but none of that is the issue. Yorkiemother accused him of abusing dogs and claimed to have top secret insider information on the matter from people who had signed silence contracts and therefore cannot report to the authorities that they saw Cesar abuse dogs.