Re: Another Electric fence question

Amy Blankenship wrote:
Something new to be learned! is the reaction.

Or, if I stick my head inside this thing, I get to go outside the house and
see new sights, no matter how much I may not like getting my neck yanked.

She goes outside lots of times with no collar or leash. Only training
sessions get the training equipment.

Corrections have an elaborate grammar, too. There's a fetch correction that's
for fetch-like enforcement, and the collar correction for stay-like enforcement.

What the dog loses in comfort she gains in an interesting set of rules.

And of course the corrections don't teach what is to be done. That's shown
patiently and elaborately over a long period of time, well past what it takes
to learn, so that there's no question that it's understood. What corrections
show, after that period, is that yes, you do have to do it.

You do have to hold a stay next to flapping canvas, or next to a fence, or
on a driveway, and so forth.

Corrections answer questions directed at you by the dog.

Psych 101 isn't going to see any of this. The training there is in not seeing,
so that all animals are alike.
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