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I think the dog whisperer should host all the crazy dog adoption shows on animal planet does anyone else agree

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I was watching yet another dog adoption show, this one on a black and white dog named rocky and I couldn’t believe how they acted around the dog, anyone whos seen the dog whisperer will know what I mean, the first family kept talking to him in that high pitched baby vioce which is not good for dogs! He seemed scared of them, in his head he was probably going "Now why should I listen to them, they’re not being calm-assertive." The next family imedialty pet the dog the second they daw him, another no-no, whereever that dog goes he’s going to wind up ruling the house, I hate stuff like that. I think Cesar Millan should host the dog adoption shows.

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1 Response to "I think the dog whisperer should host all the crazy dog adoption shows on animal planet does anyone else agree"

  • A M says:
    January 17, 2010 at 4:50 pm

    I don’t know… I suppose he COULD host the dog adoption shows, but most the times the host isn’t really involved in any show beyond making statements, so why’s it matter? I doubt they’d want him to sit there and critique the potential owners every movement anyway.

    ‘Talking to the dog in high-pitched baby voices’. This can be benificial to getting a dog to listen to you, though it depends on a dog, because they pay more attention to higher noises, and it CAN make them really happy and a good reward tool. Probably works less in a situation where the animals already a bit frightened, but I doubt he was considering how they wouldn’t be calm-assertive. Dogs don’t work that way- they don’t have the logical thinking to even consider that these people were going to adopt him. All he knew was that they were bugging him. He was probably thinking that he was already kind of freaked out and now people were shoving there faces and babbling at him and it scared him more.

    Oh, yeah and ‘immediately pet the dog the second they saw him’. I did that. I petted all the dogs in the pound right off, unless they were obviously scared, then I just talked to them. I’m not below my dog on the pecking order; I can steal his food without a sound, I can make him lay down, I can pet his belly, etc. He has never been dominating towards me or anyone else. He respects all people, even those who he knows he could dominate in an instant. (He sees the mentally disabled and is so good around them). It’s instinct for a lot of people to just pet the dog in adoption situations because they feel bad for the pooch.

    So the moral of this story is:

    You can’t always tell how people are going to treat their dog by them talking to/petting them for a minute. Especially on TV. And even if you could, there are always other, just as successful ways to own or train a dog; not just your way. All dogs and all people are different. Either of these techniques could have worked on the dog.

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