My brother in law is an exotic animal trainer for show business, and the animals are all trained using just positive reinforcement. The guy who wrote the book says you can't get birds, rats, ostriches, dolphins, killer whales, etc to work for you using force. The animal either won't work or will turn on you.
Marine mammals will drag the trainer underwater if they don't like the training.
So, is the only reason we still use techniques like helicoptering (lifting a dog's front feet off the ground until the dog either passes out or submits), beating (as described by the Koehler method), Alpha rolling, (as performed by the egotistical Cesar Millan,)
on dogs is that dogs will forgive us and still work?
And if a husband hits his wife, and the wife forgives him, does it make it right for the husband to have hit his wife to start with?
2007-01-06
20:54:25
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