10/12/2024
New blog article: “Jolts & Jabs”
You turn your head to see a spider on your shoulder. You shriek! You jump! I smack you! Why? Because I don’t like the fact that you shrieked and jumped. You are naughty. You deliberately did that to annoy me. (If this sounds absolutely crazy . . . then I made my point.)
Furthermore, do you think that you will find spiders crawling on you to be joyful now because I smacked you? I have added sudden, outside pain and fear to your established frightened emotion. So probably not.
One day, you are walking your dog, a skateboarder rides towards you, the wheels loudly vibrating on the asphalt, wizzing fast, and without normal leg movement. Your dog barks and lunges. What is your dog thinking?: “What the heck is that?” or “AHHH that is terrifying.” You respond with; a shock of electricity to their delicate neck, or a sudden strangling of a metal chain, or spikes digging in. So why do people think this will make skateboards all better?
Dogs are not unreasonable, they are just trying to figure out how to cohabitate with us. What owners call a “naughty” dog, is actually a confused dog. There is miscommunication. Dog training is not intuitive. They are not little humans. They are an entirely different species trying to learn the rules of our homes, our live and us. The term “domestic” does not mean they come knowing how to do this.
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You turn your head to see a spider on your shoulder. You shriek! You jump! I smack you! Why? Because I don’t like the fact that you shrieked and jumped. You are naughty. You deliberately did that to annoy me. (If this sounds absolutely crazy . . . then I made my point.) Furthermore, do you think t...
