Basic Obedience Programs: More Shortcomings Than Strengths?
Posted on April 30, 2008
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These programs vary so much in training methods, instructor competence, and class size that the best advice is to personally investigate the instructors and techniques before enrolling. Basic obedience programs may have some of the following strengths and shortcomings:
Strengths:
? Lessons may help control the dog on leash in distracting situations.
? Owners can meet other owners with similar breeds, problems or other common interests.
? "Graduating" dogs may progress to more advanced obedience training.
Shortcomings:
? Many classes are large, usually over 20 owner-dog pairs, affording little or no time for personal assistance.
? Courses often require 10 weeks, at 1 class per week, which some owners complain is too long.
? Some instructors are impatient and unsympathetic with individuals working with difficult dogs.
? Some instructors use harsh and inhumane measures, such as hanging an aggressive dog by its choke collar or kneeing a jumping dog in the chest, to correct difficult dogs.
? The training methods may be rigid and mechanical, lacking variety, which may benefit some owners and dogs.
? Disappointed owners say they wish they had met the instructors personally or had attended a class first, without their dogs, to evaluate the program before enrolling.
? Satisfied owners attended small classes, with fewer than 10 other students.
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