Oh my. An alert reader sent me an blog from Psychology Today's website. The essay is by Lee Charles Kelly, and argues that "dog training is no longer working that well" because we start "obedience" training too soon. The quote is actually attributed to Ian Dunbar, and Kelly uses that comment, and suggestions from psychologists that we shouldn't push young children into cognitive tasks too soon, to argue that we have no business training puppies until they are adolescents. Ironically, he suggests that Ian himself is responsible for the "problem," because he has encouraged people to take their pups to puppy socialization classes. Could I disagree more? It would be hard ... at least, if you define "training" the way I do. I'm talking about teaching a pup to associate coming when called to Read More
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