holygodjesus
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I am genuinely curious as to whether crate training could be the next generation after dominance training. I am neither for or against anyones personal belief, please don’t assume I am an anti anything, I just am curious as to peoples thoughts.
15 years ago or so, people believed in the dominance theory. You had to be the pack leader over your dog to achieve manners and good behaviour. This has now been disproven and positive only training has been brought forward. Fantastic for dog welfare everywhere.
Now we are encouraged to believe that dogs are den animals and they need the security of a crate to fullfill peace and harmony in the home.
Could this, in the future be seen as misinformation and detriment to a dogs wellbeing?
Should we be training acceptance of an enclosed environment to be only a part of training, for vets visits, boarding and transportation? But also training as a major aspect, that dogs are apart of the family home and they are welcome and trained to be free roaming wherever they wish to be alongside us?
15 years ago or so, people believed in the dominance theory. You had to be the pack leader over your dog to achieve manners and good behaviour. This has now been disproven and positive only training has been brought forward. Fantastic for dog welfare everywhere.
Now we are encouraged to believe that dogs are den animals and they need the security of a crate to fullfill peace and harmony in the home.
Could this, in the future be seen as misinformation and detriment to a dogs wellbeing?
Should we be training acceptance of an enclosed environment to be only a part of training, for vets visits, boarding and transportation? But also training as a major aspect, that dogs are apart of the family home and they are welcome and trained to be free roaming wherever they wish to be alongside us?