![]() ![]() This allows the dogs to be controlled with a lot less overt force it’s too painful and choking to pull or “act like a fool” (as one owner describes his dog’s problematic behavior) with a narrow cord on your throat. When Leverette begins work with them, they are wearing very thin cord-like slip collars. Instead, the dogs simply learn to give up and give in to the force being used.īy the way, it’s never called out or shown explicitly, but when you first see each “problem dog,” they are generally wearing wide collars. It’s just that his methods call for making the dog do what he wants, when he wants – even if the dog is “flooded” and completely “over threshold,” physiologically aroused past a state of being able to learn. Leverette is not shown flagrantly inflicting pain on the dogs he’s a much more skilled trainer than that. And in cases of aggression, it’s well-established that the use of pain, force, and fear in training often worsens aggression.ĭon’t get me wrong. If an owner is motivated, there are always more ways to train a dog in order to “save” them, without having to resort to pain-inducing tools and methods. This sort of language triggers educated dog trainers. “This is life or death, pretty much, for her.” She won’t have a second chance….” The owner agrees. Leverette says, “If we don’t fix this, this dog is not gonna have a long future…. In the first episode, a guy described as a tech-business owner has adopted a pit bull-mix who displays aggression with strangers and visitors to the tech-guy’s home.
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