I was born in ‘74 and yesterday‘s shock collar kerfuffle has shown me that I’m not built for this. Back to arguing with other paper zine pub via the us mail for me.
Less exciting but absolutely in play are the legion of aggrieved middle aged guys whose motivation is fury at their local board of selectmen or city managers, such as Killdozer Guy
I’ve been in the dog training industry for almost three decades and my extremely neutral description of what I saw (eg what behavior the dog was performing and the specific brand of dog bed he was on) made his simps lose. their. shit. Hasan is basically a millenial, center-left Bob Avakian.
I’m not trying to argue with you, but I’m trying to understand your objection. A leash isn’t autonomy either. If there’s a way that I can give my dog the freedom to sniff, explore and romp in a dog-safe area instead of keeping them on-leash, where the harm?
I like them because the stimulus is consistent - it always feels the same and means the same thing. I also like being able to communicate with the dog when they’re not in arm’s reach. Deaf dogs deserve as much autonomy and as little stress as we can manage.
Most dogs would jump out of their skin if you just strapped one on and pressed the button! But clickers can scare the bejeezus out of some sensitive hearing dogs when they’re not introduced correctly.
If that’s them as your banner image, they were beautiful, btw. If you’re interested in learning more about training dogs without using auditory cues, thi is an amazing resource: deafdogsrock.com
