Hey??? Are you speaking from me?

How true! I think I once mentioned we had a trainer in the beginning, a self styled one, for 3 months. I had only a vague idea from dog training and believed him almost everything. They learned nothing more than sit, down, a bit of stay (off leash!) and walking on leash with being tuggend a lot, (not strong, but almost constantly.

I though was reading a lot about training and asked him things about sozialisation and relationship. He didn't understand what I was talking about. I also thought, the dogs should learn something more than only sit and down and he said:"What do you want? Teach her giving the paw?"

It all ended when one of my pits didn't want to continue walking and he dragged her on her belly along the street, cursing over "that bloody stubborn biest".

That was for me the point of breaking immediately with him. I walked my Pit home, she followed me in thousends of tiny and slow steps. I don't know what it was, I guess she had been bitten from some insect, though I couldn't see anything on her paw or perhaps the asphalt had already been too hot.

Yes Trainer is not = Trainer. And for a beginner's naivity the poor animal has to pay.