‘Veterinary behaviorists’ are trained as medical veterinarians who receive additional teaching and influence in animal behavior.
The only way for Veterinary Behavior schools and organizations to arrive at ‘statistics’ concerning the effects of electronic collars, or other training tools is to set up scenarios where dogs are being intentionally abused, to produce a pre-determined outcome.
Aside from that, they resort to ‘surveys’ polling those who share their ideology.
That so they can stay with the required narrative about the ‘science’ that is regurgitated over and over through colleges teaching these academics, many of whom have no real-world experience training dogs.
That’s what we hear about concerning ‘consensus’ among these organizations and schools. ‘Consensus’ under these conditions simply means they all agree.
On something that is fundamentally false.
This applies to the ‘American College of Veterinary Behaviorists’, the ‘American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior’ and all similar schools, groups, societies, organizations.
None teach or train directly in practical, hands-on, real world dog training.
What they are taught through books, and on paper, does not translate to real-world experience, competently using anything they are taught to disparage.
They are all engaged in a war on modern tools used to produce the happiest, healthiest, best trained dogs in the U.S. and around the world.
What they call ‘outdated’ methods are methods that have been used for generations to train dogs.
Methods that are still effective. Meaning they are factually not ‘outdated’. They still work.
Add to that, the modern tools, methods of using those tools, and what people see in every township, city, state, country, around the world.
Happy, healthy, well-adjusted dogs trained to their owners’ expectations by trainers using those generations-old techniques combined with the modern tools and methods.
That’s the real ‘science’.
What people are seeing millions of times all over the world.
Not the blathering of academics vomiting vitriol at the very training methods and tools that actually produce superior results.
This applies to the ‘American College of Veterinary Behaviorists’, the ‘American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior’ and all similar schools, groups, societies, organizations.
~Mark Rogers