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I remember a Lab I worked with many years ago. He was laying in the yard, and the owner called him inside. Instead of going, he just stayed there. She went over, reached for his collar to get him moving, and he attacked her. Her arm was torn up and required stitches. A neighbor was a "German Shepherd trainer" who told her if one of his dogs had done that, he would have "beaten the hell" out of the dog. She found me in the Yellow Pages and called me. I reviewed the entire situation, and told her that her dog wasn't well. Sure enough, after a visit to the veterinarian, the dog's entire body was riddled with cancer. It wasn't a behavioral problem, it was a reaction to a medical problem. Beating a dog isn't training, it is abuse.
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