The city of Brampton in Ontario Canada had an owner place a vicious dog tag on his dog. This tag is highly visible and hangs from the collar. The dog, a German Shepherd's Dog, came to our public class and within a few short minutes was completely under control around other dogs and handlers. The dog came here fully capable of being calm and stable. We have the ability to communicate to the handler and they then communicate to the dog.

The dog was wrongly judged simply because those in places of authority are ignorant to the simple truths of canine abilities and behaviors. They, like the dogs handler, must be open to learn the truth and not continue to deny it or throw balls and bits of dried liver treats at it.

A trainer who advertises on the internet his abilities and well trained dogs comes to learn how to handle here. He has a four year old male German Shepherds dog that fails to do a simple track of about thirty feet. The trainer ignores the fact that young pups are doing much longer tracks. He gets confrontational regarding the difficulty of the track. He never once considers that his web page represents him as a learned well balanced trainer competent and able. People have purchased dogs from him yet he has a dog that is four years of age and barks continuously showing that both dog and handler have little or no communication together. He imports dogs trained by someone else and the dogs are not really what he represents on his page. Instead of learning or attempting to learn, he looks for excuses.

The first dog suffers from this same type of ignorance as he wears a sign that declares his instability to a sleeping world. It is these same types that want to be someone or something but refuse to take the time to learn or study the truth that are the dogs biggest enemy. Our dogs are quickly disappearing into their ignorance at a rapidly growing rate. As I see the hind legs of an imported pup and its obvious dull out look on the surrounding world, I see the real garbage that is being imported and resold by these types of dog jockey trainers. It seems that the public falls deeper and deeper into the abyss of ignorance that awaits them simply because they have forgotten how to use their God given common sense.

Dogs suffer at the hands and the minds of these ones that ever struggle to maintain their positions of authority. These positions are man given or self proclaimed and cannot withstand the harvesting hand of the truth. Dogs cringe at the reflection of the human soul for the same reason that they respond positively to it. It is the human soul which reflects in them and our society proclaiming "Vicious dogs and Things" that hold no more truth in them than those souls who enact them.

©Mike McConnery/Baden K9 Incorporated, 01/25/08

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