Dogs Going SOFT! | Who's to Blame: the DOG or the TRAINER?

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You may hear a lot that today's dogs are too soft! Are they? What exactly is a SOFT dog anyway? Are we sure its not the people involved? We get to the bottom of these questions and MORE!
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[@topperisthedog]

I remember hearing a number of retriever trainers remarking that the more ubiquitous and sophisticated use of the e-collar allowed softer dogs to be trained up to a proper standard. The general consensus was that with the hard physical training methods the soft dogs either shut down or were so worried about the correction they couldn't work. As I understood it, the dogs lacked both the physical and mental resiliency to deal with the methods. The e-collar allowed a softer and quicker correction that didn't overpower the soft dogs personality.
Maybe that's why people think dogs are softer because they're seeing more soft dogs working than there would have been in the past.
One of the trainers did worry that dogs were losing the ability to independently work out a problem with overuse of the e-collar.

[@Lionheartk9]

Dogs haven't changed. People have. Training has.