18/09/2025
I think it's strange that dogs get called naughty, bad or blamed for their natural behaviour.
It's even odder to me that dogs are usually the last one in the household to be considered.
They are just expected to fit in and have no opinions.
Then when they cry out for their needs to be met in one way or another, a trainer is fetched in.
Then the dog becomes the sentient victim of the vast uneducated dog trainer lottery.
Then if they are unlucky the poor dog is exposed to one of those 'broken people dog trainers' who focus only on results so work through threats and force.
In barely no time at all, a desperate animal who has been asking for help in the only way he knows how, is put into the hands of a disconnected brute of a human with a prong collar and a big scary voice.
The dog learns that when they ask for help they are threatened.
They learn that pain is the response to them trying to stay safe.
That dog learns when they are scared, they just have to push it all back inside because of the brute standing over them, or the metal spikes around their neck.
This is not good enough!
We have the capacity to be so much better than this!
We have enough access to education to know that bullying isn't teaching!
We have known for decades that dogs are emotional and sentient animals.
We have intuition and instinct to know that it's wrong to push a vulnerable animal around.
WE know that it's wrong.
YOU know in your heart that it's wrong.
So why the hell are you still doing it?
(Note from the writer - well I escalated quickly 😅)
