A campaign to promote awarness of humane alternatives to dog collars designed to hurt, startle, or punish started today and they have an awesome message, I'd encourage everyone to check out the website. They're also trying to raise money for Humane Society of Boulder's No Choke Challenge which will offer free dog collars and harnesses to people who turn in their choke, prong, or shock collars.
Both are awesome projects, and I'm so glad to see more and more opposition to pain and force based training. Where we live people are a little behind when it comes to dog training (and a lot of other things too) but almost weekly I have new people enrolling in my training classes, people who are willing and will learn about recognizing communication from their dogs and how to use that information in their training, easy, effective, and humane ways to get their dogs to do the things they want, and the potential negative consequences of training that's all about "dominance" or "letting the dog know what they're doing wrong".
I'm starting to feel more like a cause than a person but I really believe in this stuff, and I think that Never Shock a Puppy really says it all when they say "Learning shouldn't hurt." We all have the potential to create better lives for our pets and people just by remembering that fear, intimidation, and pain are not the only ways to change behavior, and they're never the best way.
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