| I'll say this one more time....and that's it forever on this forum.... POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT in the conditioning phase (teaching phase) certainly is more adventagous to the dog (and the relationship between dog and owner) than compulsion based methods.
The dogs appearance while doing obedience is enough to show who was heavy handed and who wasn't during the imprinting phase....
Corrections (compulsion. Negative stimuli) in the proofing phase AFTER THE DOG HAS BEEN CONDITIONED to know what is expected yet the DOG OPTS to be DISOBEDIENT is where the long term consequenses for a disobedience are imprinted......and serve as a valuable reminder to the dog that OBEDIENCE IS EXPECTED. Corrections are not inhumane. They are consequenses for incorrectness. Don't be mislead by people who tell you that you're evil if you correct your dog! Chances are; they are the same ones who give the Principle a lot of lip and say "not MY child" when they get a call from the Police Department to come pick their kid up for shoplifting!
Dogs are not blithering idiots.....they only ACT THAT WAY when they know they can get away with the garbage behavior!
It is NOT UP TO THE DOG to decide who "they want" to visit you!
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