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Originally Posted by Judi W Humm, if the training "took" then one should not be needing to be in a position of giving corrections all the time. The whole purpose of training is to have the dog respond to commands and/or instructions because it has learned to do so without being dependent on corrections. |
Then why have leashes and collars? Isn't the purpose of them "just in case". If the training "tooK", then the dog should never chase a person, chase a car, chase an animal, chase a bicycle, should never engage anyone who ever came up to it, etc.... and would have a perfect recall 100% of the time, but of course, you would never have to use a recall, becasue the dog would never break in the first place. We are just as dependant on leashes and collars. Same thing with an ecollar. The real problem is that you can never, ever, proof for every situation that you and the dog will encounter. You may have proofed with small children running around, but did you proof with a small child riding a big wheel backwards while singing "You lost that loving feeling" in Chinese through a megaphone? Probably not. So, it is safe to say that the dog may freak out a little and require a correction. I don't know about you, but I cannot recall ever, a single time, walking my dog without giving him a single leash correction.