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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  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. |
I have seen people here say, "if you aren't pack leader, you cannot train." I've read many books that say if you take a dog's abused background into account, you are continuing its abuse. People make all kinds of statements, basically. I personally don't understand how everyone and their mother is shocked when someone comes on and says they rub their dog's nose in their waste (again, not something I would ever do), but they don't say boo about a trainer who has been filmed lifting dogs' feet off the ground with a prong collar. Honestly, I think a dog would rather smell poop - a lot of us try to get our dogs to stop eating it!
I get that people can present their ideas in a very rigid way, and that makes other people respond rigidly.