Dogs trainers literally have you doing the same abusive experiments on your dog as B.F Skinner was doing in a lab. Do you understand what the joke is? Skinner wasn’t just an animal behaviourist – he was moreso a human psychologist. He did cruel experiments on animals – so he wouldn’t have to do it to you.
Skinner did experiments in a lab environment in order to understand how to use Negative and Positive reinforcement on humans without needing to shock or treat train them. He didn’t bring the experiments into his human practice – he brought what he learned about positive and negative reinforcement to his human practice. Instead of using that understanding on your dog – they have you doing the same experiments on your dog that he was doing. Yeah, Skinner screwed up alot of animals with food reward. He was shocking dogs 100 years ago – and low and behold – trainers are declaring this to be “new science”! Excuse me while I go puke.
I hate what dog training has become – owners are being tossed into an veritable ocean of lies. I am amazed at how many owers that use “positive reinforcement” have never heard of the quadrants or Skinner himself. I see this as a huge issue – people are being told to use a system and they aren’t being given any reality of the history of it all. Owners have no clue.
Trainers only pull out Skinner when it works for them. When it comes to training – it’s all Skinner’s quadrants! When it comes to behaviour – throw Skinner in the garbage. LAT – Look at that! Focus on me, focus on what I’m saying. Don’t look over there, you might find truth.
No, a human child is not a dog. On that we agree. However – Skinner proved that the human child is an animal – just like the childs parents. Skinner proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that humans are animals – and they share the same behaviours as our dogs. And we can be trained with abusive techniques as well.
What pisses you off? What makes you angry? What makes you show aggression? Does that make you an “aggressive” person? No. What makes you scared? What makes you reactive? Does that make you a reactive person? No. How are you when you’re completely calm? Now look at your dog.
Not aggressive or reactive eh? Funny how that works. But get the brain excited and all bets are off.
Skinner didn’t shock people, and he damned well didn’t food train them – but he knew it would work. Why? Because you are an animal – and you share behaviours with ALL animals.
I don’t use treats or tools of any kind. But people bash me for that.
At what point did it become normal for a dog to have a toy box? At what point did people declare that dogs are denning animals – but we need to lock them in a crate? There are no “dens” with a door and a lock. At what point did it become normal to shock your dog cause it won’t listen? At what point did it become normal for a human to be carrying around a treat bag to feed your dog at random for the rest of the dogs life?
And we dare have the nerve to call this “dog training”? Lets call it what it is – legalized animal abuse.
You are outright being lied to by the dog training community at large – they are training you to be scared of what your dog is going to do.
They are applying “Negative Reinforcement” on you. And what is “positive reinforcement”? The removal of “negative reinforcement”
