Around the early 20th century, the Germans wrote the world’s first dog training
manual, which had a very simple central idea: without some form of coercion, even the most obedient dog would not obey The Master’s Command
The manual emphasizes many times that ‘humans should use force to make dogs understand their status and use force to control dogs’ actions’
Although these concepts are now viewed are very inhumane and useless, but this book still influences many industries to this day, such as when training guard dogs, trainers will use sticks to stimulate the dogs, etc.
To this day, there are still Many people advocate the use of violence to train dogs.
Let’s not talk about whether it is humane or not, but whether the dog will be accidentally injured during violent dog training, I am afraid no one can guarantee that the dog will be safe and sound, right?
Until 1940, American Blanche Sanders proposed the world’s first ‘training dogs through rewards’
Many dog trainers have found that the feasibility of this program is much stronger than that of the Germans. The most important thing is that the dogs trained through this training have more stable obedience
What are the disadvantages of violent dog training?
Beating dogs can make dogs more withdrawn and more prone to aggressive behavior
At first, I thought this was the biggest drawback of violent dog training, but many studies tell us that violent training The dog’s way not only makes the dog more aggressive, but also makes the dog more alienated from the owner and less trusting of the owner
Internationally, there is a test to test children’s dependence on their parents. In a room with only a few chairs, parents play with their children in it.
At this time, a stranger will come in, and the stranger will Try to communicate and play with the child, after a period of time when the parent leaves, the stranger will try to communicate and play with the child again
The tester will record ‘how the child gets along with the stranger in the presence of the parent’ and ‘How children get along with strangers without parents’
The results are very interesting. Those children who have not experienced domestic violence since childhood obviously prefer to be with their parents, regardless of whether they have parents or not. Will communicate with strangers;
And those children who have experienced domestic violence will be very timid, they are more inclined to communicate with strangers, especially when their parents are not around, they communicate with strangers to a much higher degree For children who have not experienced domestic violence
Why is this? Because children who have not experienced domestic violence are more confident and prefer to be with their parents, children who have experienced domestic violence would rather trust strangers than communicate with their parents
Because domestic violence makes children feel When parents were estranged
When swapping children for dogs, researchers found that dogs trained in violence were very indifferent to strangers and their owners; dogs that received reward training were very indifferent to strangers Friendly, and very dependent on the owner
It is clear that those dogs that receive reward training will develop a stronger attachment to the owner during the training, because the owner can give it a reward, and the owner is around = reward;
And those dogs trained with violence will only produce conditioned reflexes under special circumstances such as sticks, growls, etc., and complete a series of commands
Like humans, violence will also make dogs and their owners estrangement, and the dog’s execution will become lower and lower, and the dog will become less and less trusting of the owner