11/30/2024
Understanding the ethology of dogs offers a glimpse into the world through their eyes. Knowing this, there is no need or place for aversive tools such as prong collars, choke chains or shock collars.
Science has proven over and over again there is no need for these obsolete tools that are designed to cause pain. If it wasn’t painful, it wouldn’t work, period.
Not only is it immoral to hurt your dog while training, it’s extremely unethical and dangerous to your relationship.
Think deeply before you decide to go the route of using aversive tools and techniques to train your dog.
We have come a long way from using shock treatment in humans and dogs. Shock therapy was used for hyper children 50 years ago. Today, a hyper child is labeled with ADHD. Imagine all these children being treated with shock today. It would never happen. However, shocking dogs is still being used in dog training, despite all the science debunking it.
When we know better we can do better.
This page is about positive reinforcement and there is no debate on the use of shock collars so refrain from debating it.
