(VICT) Re: dogs in public question
- From: "Ann Edie" <annedie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vi-clicker-trainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:47:39 -0400
Thanks, Sandy. As always, your comments are firmly grounded in good clicker
science and philosophy.
Ann
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Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 8:51 AM
Subject: (VICT) Re: dogs in public question
>
> In a message dated 9/13/2007 10:26:35 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
> annedie@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> If anyone has positively oriented, clicker-thought-based suggestions or
> solutions for Martha's story, please go ahead and post them to the list.
> Otherwise, focusing negatively on what other people or their dogs do in
> public is definitely off-topic and not in the spirit of this list, so
> please
> take the discussion off list.
>
>
>
>
> I am choosing not to respond to her request as it seems very
> confrontational
> in her choice of questions plus we have nothing to go on but her word.
> She
> also states that she already knows the answers. Not very open-minded
> IMHO.
>
> Kind of clicker training in action.. ignore what you dont like and
> encourage
> what you do.. smiling wicked grin..
>
> Please folks, lets be careful and prudent in our correspondence on the
> net.
> None of us really knows each other, although I have met some of the folks
> on
> the lists in person,and starting a flame-war against the general public
> and
> their training/lack of training wont change that. Education might.
>
> Focusing on the few folks who abuse a law designed to help us uphold our
> civil rights and use our choice of assistive device (lord I hate calling
> Alex
> that, even if it is true)won't help. Education might. People still speed
> and
> kill other people, even with a law prohibiting it. Heck, people still
> commit
> murder, even with the serious, life threatening penalties.. In my
> opinion,
> that alone is proof that punishment doesn't work.
>
> Sandy Foushee
> Infinite Paws-Abilities Training and Service Dogs
> Teamed with Alexandra Guide/Service Dog
> Colorado Service/Assistance Dog Club - Trainer.-
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