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Great discussion! Many domestic animal trainers should listen to this video. Other words that come to mind and that I have been subject to is blacklisting when I reported abuse. Tribalism, being the outsider is never easy as we all want to feel worthy or valued. In dog training, the 'tribe' of (inappropriately) labeling dog training as purely positive or positive only causes huge rifts in the industry. I am suspicious of a Ph.D. instructing dog trainers to use positive-only techniques or selling programs to train dog trainers when they have never spent long years training dog owners to train their dogs, lack of experiential knowledge is detrimental to the pet industry. Yes, education is important and so is being in the trenches. Combining the two is the foundation for a professional.
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Great discussion! Many domestic animal trainers should listen to this video. Other words that come to mind and that I have been subject to is blacklisting when I reported abuse. Tribalism, being the outsider is never easy as we all want to feel worthy or valued. In dog training, the 'tribe' of (inappropriately) labeling dog training as purely positive or positive only causes huge rifts in the industry. I am suspicious of a Ph.D. instructing dog trainers to use positive-only techniques or selling programs to train dog trainers when they have never spent long years training dog owners to train their dogs, lack of experiential knowledge is detrimental to the pet industry. Yes, education is important and so is being in the trenches. Combining the two is the foundation for a professional.