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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  I personally haven't seen that many overtrained dogs. A lot of what I see are dogs with a couple of months of obedience when they were puppies and people too busy to work with their dogs much at all consistently. The dogs are bored silly and maybe get a walk 3 times a week and then my friends wonder why their dog is neurotic with a touch of OCD, peeing everywhere, doesn't come when called and chewing, barking too much. Those dogs don't seem very happy either. And the owners really aren't. I wish those people would spend some more time working with and nurturing their dog's needs to work and have mental challenges. |
Oh, I agree. Most dogs have little or no training and are bored half to death. People take them to a puppy class or two and then give up on the training.
Part of my family was very into obedience trials and some agility. While my family were not the neurotic trainers there were some people I met that were just way overboard about having the best trained dog. There were some things that they would train their dogs to do that had no obvious purpose and to me it bordered on abuse just as the idea of dominating a dog seems quite abusive to me at times.