Dog training: The solidarity of hundreds of dog trainers
Plusieurs centaines de professionnels de l'éducation canine soutiennent notre dénonciation de pratiques violentes de dressage des chiens.
For these hundreds of professionals, our investigation into dog training and the violent techniques used in this type of education is a relief for them. Professional trainers join with us to denounce “these heinous acts described and proven by (our) videos”, encouraging us to persevere in our actions! They oppose those who have attacked us in court: they do not represent these people. Their solidarity touches our hearts and strengthens our determination to help the dogs who suffer at the hands of these violent dog trainers.
Contrary
to the claims of the thirty or so trainers who have brought us to
court, we have not been denounced by the dog training world, rather
the opposite “the integrity of real professionals”. As proof, the
solidarity of three hundred and fifty-seven professionals (to date)
who along with individuals have been moved by our undercover investigation. These people were able to have their say, those who
speak very rarely in public.
Enough is enough!
Several
recent publications by those who claim to be spokespersons on social
networks have put light to the powder keg. Those in the dog training
industry and who have nothing to hide support us and want to say it
loud and clear: they do not feel ” unfairly criticize” or
“accused” by our investigations. On the contrary, they have
mixed feelings, our survey has never questioned the practices or
values of dog educators as a whole, far from what has been targeted.
United against the violence!
To put an end to these
barbaric methods, we will always call for a ban on training dogs to
bite and the training of so-called defence dogs, transforming them
into weapons by means of violent training methods. We repeat, every
dog deserves to live in a loving home. A good communication and
complicity between human and dog cannot be based on shouting, hitting
and nor the pain caused by collars with sharp spikes or collars that
discharge electric shocks… And in this venture, we are all united,
associations, professionals and individuals, against a minority who
practice this harmful method of training towards our companions of
more than 30,000 years, dogs!