Gary -Gaz- Jackson Dog Trainer, Author, Speaker

26/11/2025

Dog Training’s Loudest “Experts” Are Nothing But Fragile Ideologues Hiding Behind Fake Morality

The dog-training world has been hijacked by a bunch of self-appointed saints who preach “force-free fixes everything” like it’s a religion. Not a method. Not a philosophy. A religion — complete with blind followers, censorship, and a high priest who can’t handle a single inconvenient fact.

These people aren’t trainers.
They’re cult leaders with treat bags.

I’ve watched them get hit with wave after wave of real results — balanced training transforming dogs they’d throw their hands up at. Dogs with aggression, reactivity, anxiety… you name it. Do they engage? Do they learn? Do they even look?

Nope.
They hide it like guilty children caught lying.

If you present anything — literally anything — that proves their “one-size-fits-all miracle method” doesn’t work, they go into full meltdown:

• Delete the comment
• Block the person
• Lie to their followers
• Pretend no other method exists
• Attack the messenger instead of the message

It’s cowardly.
It’s manipulative.
And it screams insecurity.

Because if your method is as perfect as you claim…
why are you scared of the truth?
Why do you need to erase evidence?
Why does disagreement feel like a threat?

Answer:
Because the entire persona collapses without the illusion of moral superiority.

And the way they lash out at anyone who challenges them?
Embarrassing.

Show them a humane, balanced technique that actually works and they start shrieking:

“You’re cruel!”
“You’re abusive!”
“You’re ignorant!”

No logic. No discussion. No curiosity.
Just knee-jerk insults to keep their followers indoctrinated.

Here’s the reality:

Trainers who attack people instead of addressing results aren’t defending dogs — they’re defending an ideology.

They want obedience, not from dogs, but from dog owners.
Absolute loyalty. Absolute agreement.
If you dare think for yourself, you’re the enemy.

And that’s why I’m done with these frauds-in-spirit.

Dog training shouldn’t be ruled by egos, dogma, and censorship.
Dog owners deserve the full truth — not whatever pieces fit into some influencer’s fragile worldview.
The moment a “trainer” starts silencing evidence to protect their brand, they’ve told you exactly what they are:

A salesman in a savior costume. A marketer posing as a moral authority. A cult leader who can’t handle reality.

25/11/2025

I can wait for this gem.

25/11/2025

𝕎𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝔻𝕚𝕕 𝕊𝕥𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝔹𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕒 𝔻𝕚𝕣𝕥𝕪 𝕎𝕠𝕣𝕕 𝕚𝕟 𝔻𝕠𝕘 𝕋𝕣𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘?

I am honestly sickened with this fantasy world where trainers that push the positive-only and force-free agenda to the extreme, brag about offering your dog “stress free training” while working with dogs who are already mentally overwhelmed. If it wasn't such a serious issue, it would be laughable. It is an emotive based slogan, not a solution. And worse, it keeps dogs stuck in the very problems we’re trying to help them escape.

This propaganda is even being pushed by some vets now. “We provide stress free care and medical assistance for your pet.” Really? Try saying that to a dog getting a thermometer shoved up its backside, a syringe punched into its muscle, or going through medical procedures or surgery that leaves them in pain or serious discomfort for days or even weeks!

There is nothing “stress free” about necessary medical intervention. It is just another emotive slogan designed to tug at pet owners hearts while pretending reality doesn’t exist.

Here’s the truth that nobody in the “all positive, no pressure” bubble wants to say out loud:
‼️Nothing changes without stress.
‼️Nothing heals without stress.
‼️Nothing meaningful is learned without stress.

We know this from science, not opinion. Managed stress has shown to strengthen the immune system, sharpen cognition, and build emotional resilience in both dogs and humans. It is the same biological mechanism that helps athletes get stronger, helps people recover from trauma, helps us work through fears, and helps kids grow into confident adults. Stress (the right kind) is what creates competence and builds self confidence.

Think about it in human terms.
A child doesn’t learn to swim by sitting on the edge of the pool wrapped in towels. A student doesn’t build mastery without struggling through hard lessons. An athlete doesn’t grow by avoiding resistance. Fear doesn't simply disappear without confronting it. Growth demands effort, discomfort, challenge , the exact things these “stress free” trainers insist we must avoid with dogs.

It makes no sense.

Real behavioural change requires a dog to work through pressure, not be sheltered from it. Fear doesn’t disappear because we choose not to confront it. Insecurity doesn’t resolve because we keep everything “comfortable.” Confidence is built by confronting difficulty, navigating stress, and coming out the other side stronger.

✅This is how character forms.
✅This is how resilience develops.
✅This is how dogs, humans, and ALL living creatures learn, that by working through stress they can overcome anything they put their minds to.

So when a socalled professional warns you that “stress will damage your dog and your relationship,” and that's why we offer "stress-free" training, understand that they’re lying to you and pushing a feel good narrative that protects human emotions, not canine wellbeing. That mindset is exactly why so many dogs today are anxious, fragile, and unable to cope with real life. Wrapping them in cotton wool doesn’t keep them safe. It keeps them weak.

Used properly, stress does not break a dog.
✅It builds them.
✅It strengthens them.
✅It frees them to become the best version of themselves.

24/11/2025

The woke left ideological frauds.

THE SNARLING PURE POSITIVE TRAINERS

How come “force free” and “pure positive” dog trainers do not know a better way to train *people*?

And why all this division anyway?

After all, the debate is not whether well-timed rewards work, but whether they are the *only* thing that works on *all* things, *all* the time.

And the answer there, of course, is NO. Well-timed aversives also have their place, which is why most dog trainers remain “balanced” trainers, and why police still lock people up.

But, to bring it back to the irony, how funny is it that the “pure positive” people think whining, barking, lunging, and chain-jerking is the best way to make their point with *people*?

Fascinating!

And ironic!

21/11/2025

IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP❗️
The Force-Free Lobby Is Moving Fast.

Dog training is under attack, not by science, not by welfare concerns, but by ideology disguised as ethics!

A new “Joint Standards of Practice” was just released by APDT, IAABC, KPA and others.
If this becomes the accepted “standard of care,” here’s what follows:
Tool bans
Licensing controlled only by force-free organizations
Elimination of R- and P+ from professional training
Criminalization or disqualification of balanced trainers
Courts and legislators using THEIR paperwork as the only definition of “humane”

This is not accidental.
It is a coordinated move to take over the entire profession and silence everyone who isn’t “science based”!
And once this framework is adopted, reversing it will be impossible.

We need to step up now.
Not next year.
Not when a ban hits your city. Now❗️

If you haven’t joined IACP you need to do it.

I also believe there has to be a Balanced Training Coalition!!!
A unified front of trainers, working-dog professionals, behaviorists, and organizations who refuse to let ideology rewrite the laws of learning or erase the methods that keep people and dogs safe.

13/11/2025

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13/11/2025

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11/11/2025

The insanity of the woke left force free ideologists.
A painful death for sheep when attacked and the dog is euthanized so it’s Death before discomfort for the dog.
Plus council imposed fines, lawsuits etc.
it seems the big end of town makes a tidy profit from compliance.

From a piece in Farmers Weekly in 2023 when the Westminster Parliament was considering a ban of e-collars.

National Sheep Association chief executive saying a ban of e-collars is not necessary. Where we might choose to slightly differ with him is that if it is OK to use an e-collar for dogs that have caused a problem, why does he not say it is OK to use an e-collar for Livestock Avoidance Training to PREVENT a problem and save animals from suffering. Practically every untrained dog is a potential sheep worrier.

10/11/2025

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10/11/2025

Today, I remember my Uncle Bob — a D-Day veteran who served with Bomber Command as a rear gunner aboard Lancasters during World War II.
He lived to be over 100, and I will always treasure the moments he stood to read the Ode.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.
Lest we forget.

10/11/2025

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