How do you destroy an amazing breed of dog? We’ve all met the crazy Miniature Pinschers and this is mainly what this post is about. However, across all the breed specific facebook groups, we see the same ideology.
Imagine if you will that you are a first time owner of a Miniature Pinscher, puppy or adult. Join the few groups on facebook, just got this breed, what do I expect. And all you get is negative.
They are escape artists, don’t ever let them off leash. They are stubborn. They are hard to house break, they are going to pee all over the house. They bark all the time, get used to it. They nip, they bite. They can be aggressive. They are the boss! Let them bite, they are going to anyway! They are going to destroy your stuff. The list goes on and on and on. It’s the way the breed is!!! Welcome to life with a Miniature Pinscher! It’s my baby, my child!
Can you imagine the fear and terror that the new owner is now going to feel? Just got this puppy, and this is what I’m facing? Now I have to control this demonic dog?
So they quarantine the dog, and raise it like a cat because other Minpin owners made them to be afraid. So the new owner ends up with the same problems that everyone else has – because they listened to all the negative. Anyone new that joins up, they gladly join in scaring the crap out of new owners, beat the new owners into submission, put them in the same boat.
Post a video of your dog being a dog, running around a dog park – I’ve had people demand that I post his papers – prove that you have a Miniature Pinscher! This is how deeply set the mentality has become, it amazes me how much the human mind can normalize. Other people have been given the same attitude when they post videos of their dog running dog parks. It’s insane.
When people really want help, they get beaten back into submission by the same crowd that put them in the situation in the first place. They get vindicated instead of helped.
Just the way things are done around here…
Read the 5 monkeys and a ladder, yes it’s a joke, but does it ever apply. You have a dog, raise the dog, nourish the breed.
A researcher puts five monkeys in a cage. There’s a bunch of bananas hanging from a string, with a ladder leading to the bananas. When the first monkey goes for the bananas, the researcher sprays all five monkeys with freezing water for five minutes. Some time later, when a second monkey inevitably tries to go for the bananas, the researcher once again sprays all five monkeys with the cold water for five minutes. The researcher then puts the hose away and never touches it again. But, when a third monkey tries to go for the bananas, the other four attack him to prevent him from climbing that ladder. They are afraid of the punishment that may come.
Then, the researcher replaces one of the monkeys with a new monkey who wasn’t part of the original experiment and was never sprayed with water. And, as soon as he touches the ladder to go for the bananas, the other four monkeys attack him to keep him from doing so. If he tries again, they attack him again. Thus, the new monkey learns not to go after the bananas because he’ll get attacked if he does.
The researcher replaces a second monkey with another new monkey. When this monkey goes for the bananas, the other four attack him, including the new monkey who was never sprayed with water. The researcher then continues to replace all the monkeys one at a time, until all five of the original monkeys are removed from the cage. Each time the newcomer goes for the bananas, the others attack, even when they, as new monkeys, have never received punishment for going after the bananas. And thus, the new monkeys, who have never been sprayed with cold water, learn not to go after the temptation of the bananas.
The researchers hypothesize that, if they were to ask the monkeys why they don’t go for the bananas, they’d answer “because that’s the way it’s always been done”.
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