1) Dogs need work to do. **All beginning owners of our species or owners that never learned to communicate with us with previous relatives,should need to go into a remedial obedience program to learn how to communicate with us.** We require our human partners to teach us the language that let's us know what skills you WANT us to perform, otherwise we may get busy doing the ones you DON'T want us to learn.
2) We need your attention and exercise everyday!! Think about how bored you become sometimes being left in front of the tv. But If I came over and said, hey let's go to the fair, you would probably bounce up with excitement. So would I, but read Platform 1 first before bringing me. Otherwise, I am apt to infringe on others rights and enjoyment. Not because I am bad, but because I have no idea what you want. No hablo ingles (or something like that).
3) Legislating the industry is not the answer for certifying trainers. However, training organizations that hand out certifications should need to conform (and are starting to) to the tests already out there by long standing organizations involved with our species, training, and the promotion of health and standards in our breeds. Encouragement of organizations shown to promote the well being and advanced comprehension of language taught, should be the organizations leading the way to trainer certification. Also, we are living breathing beings, a multiple choice questionnaire is not the way to go. Experience demonstrated both in action and writing needs to be examined before a certification can be done. (This should also be over viewed by trainers or behaviorists that have trained dogs to a skill level that is measured, who have been in the business with all it's changes in the last 20-30 years, and still enjoy their accomplishments in the profession as an ongoing process)
4) Those attacking other methods belonging to a professional organization such as the APDT, and breaking the Code of Conduct therefore, should be brought to task for their conduct. If violating the COC more than once (so we are assuming they are not therefor knowledgeable about it), they should be banned from the organization of the COC that they just violated. However, we need to make it necessary for professional dog training organizations to enforce their COC, therefore, as their protocols are designed and without prejudice towards "personal friends". These are not businesses but non-profit organizations that should be either going by the beliefs of their members or changing their promotion, marketing, and COC to those members that are driving the organization. An organization, in other words, can't claim to be open to all methods when they are promoting the opposite and allowing their membership to use inflammatory language about other methods or tools.
2) We need your attention and exercise everyday!! Think about how bored you become sometimes being left in front of the tv. But If I came over and said, hey let's go to the fair, you would probably bounce up with excitement. So would I, but read Platform 1 first before bringing me. Otherwise, I am apt to infringe on others rights and enjoyment. Not because I am bad, but because I have no idea what you want. No hablo ingles (or something like that).
3) Legislating the industry is not the answer for certifying trainers. However, training organizations that hand out certifications should need to conform (and are starting to) to the tests already out there by long standing organizations involved with our species, training, and the promotion of health and standards in our breeds. Encouragement of organizations shown to promote the well being and advanced comprehension of language taught, should be the organizations leading the way to trainer certification. Also, we are living breathing beings, a multiple choice questionnaire is not the way to go. Experience demonstrated both in action and writing needs to be examined before a certification can be done. (This should also be over viewed by trainers or behaviorists that have trained dogs to a skill level that is measured, who have been in the business with all it's changes in the last 20-30 years, and still enjoy their accomplishments in the profession as an ongoing process)
4) Those attacking other methods belonging to a professional organization such as the APDT, and breaking the Code of Conduct therefore, should be brought to task for their conduct. If violating the COC more than once (so we are assuming they are not therefor knowledgeable about it), they should be banned from the organization of the COC that they just violated. However, we need to make it necessary for professional dog training organizations to enforce their COC, therefore, as their protocols are designed and without prejudice towards "personal friends". These are not businesses but non-profit organizations that should be either going by the beliefs of their members or changing their promotion, marketing, and COC to those members that are driving the organization. An organization, in other words, can't claim to be open to all methods when they are promoting the opposite and allowing their membership to use inflammatory language about other methods or tools.
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