@yazzy I do think this can only really work if a person really understands training.
I did reactive dog pack walks with a trainer and she was really my first exposure to dog training professionally. She used a lot of leash corrections and really encouraged people to yank the leash any time the dog acted up on the leash.
To somebody who doesn't know this is a potential problem, you could see it as fully humane. We get a lot of people who come on these subs who are like "oh, my trainer recommended using a martingale collar for corrections" or "my trainer says I need a shock collar to get my 4 month old dog to stop chasing my cat" and these people legitimately have no real basis to work off of because they don't really know what training should look like.
When TyCal K9 ended up having their footage leaked, they had a lot of people defending it in the sports side of things, specifically within PSA and several popular bitesport decoys, one of whom has his own TV show. So, in all reality, people don't know what good training looks like and when people have authority say it's fine, it's likely you're going to believe it. Of course, TyCal is an extreme, but in all reality, when you send your dog to a board and train you're trusting that person is who you think they are even when they know people aren't watching.
