Losing power and dominance through training? - Page 3

Or I train sport and "real" dogs and am not talking out of my ass like some that do neither.  Just some truthful statements :)  you're funny.  Good dogs are good dogs and I can take any dog worth a shit and make it at a minimum a single purpose "real" working dog or trial it in a sport and do well.  Give me an exceptional dog and I can make it an exceptional "sport" or "street" dog.  Give me a sleeve and stick and I can tell you what dogs I'd like a puppy out of and which ones I wouldn't.

 

In reference to power and dominance, it's not a matter of sport decreasing power and dominance, it's more about how the dog is able to express their power and dominance. Measuring power and dominance in a FAMILAR situation for the "DOG" is much different than measuring power and dominance in something unfamiliar. The boundaries and constraints alters this expression in some dogs, in some dogs it doesn't, familiarity brings power and confidence to many dogs, the lack of familiarity often decreases these traits in many of our breed today. 
So, I really don't thing sport training brings down power and dominance, I think sport today is an exhibition of training skill and depending on the dog as HD tried to explain, can highlight power and dominance or decrease it in bad hands. Jmo.

zdog said;

"Right or wrong, it is, and if it's not your dog you get no say :) "


i find this a deep an intriguing statement on a socio-legal/moral philosophical level.

the only other person i have heard say this was a guy justifying dog matching. not saying zdog condones this but it poses an interesting question of where the limitations and boundaries of one's moral judgments on another lay.

does anyone have the right to judge what others do with their own "property" regardless of how much we disagree???

interested what others think of this in general terms.