Re: Rooster battles?

Amy Blankenship wrote:
Psych 101 ruined more potential animal trainers than anything else. It
made
them genuinely stupid.

That's mainly because most Psych 101 courses are taught by grad students who
can't answer even simple questions on operant conditioning.

No, the problem is with operant conditioning. Its point is to prevent
you from seeing what is inconvenient for the theory of operant conditioning.

I can recommend Vicki Hearne _Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name_ as
good coverage for how good animal trainers and psychologists don't share
a language.

You will find a chapter in there that accounts for why I wound up with
serial Dobermans.

(More in her _Animal Happiness_ and _Bandit_ if you find it agreeable ;
most people, unaccountably to me, don't like her. She's a leftist who
winds up writing on the right a lot.)
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