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Originally Posted by QuickSilver  I feel like we are going really far afield here, and methods for training dogs are getting compared to entire value systems and commentary about modern life, which I don't know how to address. The only reason I brought up the meds thing was as an example of VS continuing to use new discoveries to help dogs. It at most tangentially related to whether Ritalin is over-prescribed.
I feel like there's this undercurrent of "progress is bad" or "people are too soft" which somehow means that all research done in the past 50 years on animal behavior is meaningless, and there's no point in trying to learn anything more than we already know. |
Well I can tell you I do not believe progress is bad, and the good old days were much better, but I can also tell you that life experience has taught me that the experts often change their minds, not just expert opinion, but the individual experts. I don't think people are against new methods, as much as they are against someone saying that a method they have personally found successful is worthless and barbaric. I never see any posts criticizing other famous trainers, or methods, but I see plenty of posts where people criticize Cesar and his methods. I would never tell anyone, you have to believe in Cesar or you don't know anything, yet the reverse is often said here. It's not that we are pushing for Cesar; we are defending him.