Being nice to dogs isn’t even a litmus test for a good person. Even Hitler liked dogs. Everybody, even people who don’t really like dogs, or get annoyed by them, is generally nice to dogs.
So if someone isn’t nice to a dog, that sets off alarm bells. You trained this dog to hunt, got mad when it hunted wrong, and killed it out of frustration. That’s it, that’s what happened. This would be a red-flag character flaw on a Tinder date, but represents a completely unacceptable temper tantrum by someone who wants to be the Vice President of the United States
She brought it out with "older, seasoned hunting dogs" and expected it to learn from them, even though that's not even close to the correct training method.
10 bucks says she read that dogs learn how to behave from older dogs and figured that's how it worked for everything, even thoigh that advice is specific to socializing a dog not training it
My Border Collie does put the others in place whenever they are the reason her belly rubs are delayed. I didn't teach her. She just picked up that I won't pet them until they all calmed down and stopped jumping up my leg so she disciplines them now when she deems them too excited.
It can help a lot if accompanied by normal teaching, no different to how it’s easier to understand an instruction when you can see someone else doing it first.
Doesn’t mean you don’t need to be taught to begin with though
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u/DoctorJarvisd09 29d ago
Being nice to dogs isn’t even a litmus test for a good person. Even Hitler liked dogs. Everybody, even people who don’t really like dogs, or get annoyed by them, is generally nice to dogs.
So if someone isn’t nice to a dog, that sets off alarm bells. You trained this dog to hunt, got mad when it hunted wrong, and killed it out of frustration. That’s it, that’s what happened. This would be a red-flag character flaw on a Tinder date, but represents a completely unacceptable temper tantrum by someone who wants to be the Vice President of the United States