Dogs And Hagridden Newbies

The great debates over the ethics of human and animal welfare go back millennia. But many newbies to the dog training world think they are the only hagridden ones who have wrestled over these issues. 

They should crack open some history books and discover that they haven't invented the debate over these issues. 

I was recently reviewing the history of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and Mao. What a shameful era. What might have sounded good to their followers turned into a horror, yet newbies to their philosophies are unaware of what has happened over the past couple hundred years. Their sordid history isn't taught in school. Thus, history is already repeating itself. 

The same can happen with the dog world. Those who study the history of animal science experiments are aware of what went wrong along the way. There is no need to repeat those lessons, and newbies don't even understand that even their "new" ways are old ways, and were proven to cause harm or not work. They don't know the history, and that history isn't taught in school. So, here we go again. 

You don't want to repeat the nightmares of the past? Then study the past and get an authoritative view on the present. That is, of course, if you really do value human and animal welfare. 

Plan accordingly.