We sometimes think of dogs who are difficult to train and ignore us as being either dumb or impossibly stubborn. Nothing could be further from the truth. Thousands of years have gone into training dogs to willingly and happiily obey our commands. Different breeds have been used for different jobs, but obedience has been bred […]
Pet Wiki contributor, Arie Menachem, alerted me regarding Leah Roberts of the Orlando Dog Training and Behavior Examiner, who wrote a thought-provoking article on the subject of Dog Training and its relation to the Milgram Experiment. I would like to share some of the highlights of the article with you. After World War II, Nazi […]
The words “low” or “moderate” referring to trainability are used to indicate dogs that may be willful or stubborn. It is not an indication of a dog’s intelligence, but rather its desire to follow instructions. Herding and retrieving breeds are more likely to be highly trainable because those jobs require the ability to follow human […]
