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Cruelty In Training Police Service Dogs
Shock collars, starvation, beatings, feeding drugs to dogs are some
of the methods used in training police service dogs in the United
States today. I was reading a post recently from a well known PSD
trainer and handler from the southwest that suggested the person
starve their dog to raise it's interest in the tug. He states that
hunger stimulates prey drive and also suggests do this every day
until the dog shows enthusiasum about the tug. Prey drive is a non-
serious drive which resembles a dog chasing a animal and playing with
it. Most trainers use this drive to train narcotic detection dogs
using a toy so that the dog will more willingly search for the
narcotics. The toy is their reward, their paycheck, for making the
find. What happens when the dog no longer wants to play and shows no
interest in the toy that is thrown when he "hits"? That is when they
are usually washed out of the training program because they are not
considered to be "good drug dogs". Or they are fed the drugs to make
them crave it so much they have to find them with an addict's
desparation. This is the lowest of the low of "trainers".
Only "people" without scruples or ethics will train a dog in this
manner. Sadly, the United States has no national standards for PSD
trainers, so there are many people that call themselves trainers.
There are methods to look for these "trainers". One is the way they
talk about different training methods as well as talking down about
other trainers. If they continually "put down" and derogatorily speak
of other trainers and their methods, this is not a trainer whom you
should go to. There are many humane methods of training and, as long
as it is not cruel methods such as the ones I am discussing in this
article, then there is no one right way to train a dog. I personally
have taken methods from many other trainers to use in my program. A
dog cannot be trained in a cookie cutter method. Each dog is an
individual with their own personality. Which brings me to the
electronic collar or as it is more commonly know, the shock collar.
This is best described as a collar with a little box and antenna on
it and it has a remote control. It is used to correct the dog, but
what it really does is break the dog into submission by affecting the
central nervous system. This is used to make the dog bite harder as
it drives him into a frenzy of pain and fear of the torment he is
going through. There was a PSD in Arkansas that was killed during a
drug raid because he "went berserk" and tried to attack an officer
while his handler was "correcting" him by shocking him. These collars
can also be set off by mobile phones and other devices.
In Great Britain last year, several K-9 handlers were accused and a
trainer and his superior were put in prison for using shock collars
containing 15,000 volts of electricity and other brutal and inhumane
training methods to "correct" any misbehavior in the dog. These same
handlers also hung the dogs over 6' fences and brutally kicked them
in the stomach as "corrections" for misbehavior. Some dogs were swung
by the ends of their chains around the handler's head in a helicopter
fashion or they were picked up by their necks and shaken when they
growled or "disobeyed" their handlers. The handlers were told that if
they did not do these brutal deeds to the dogs, then they would be
removed from the K-9 program and the dogs would be reassigned or
destroyed. One handler left the program and another was forced to
leave because they refused to "obey orders" from the head K-9
trainer. Many dogs died from this brutal training regime. This does
not only happen in Great Britain. It also happens in the United
States. One noted U.S. PSD trainer and handler in Wisconsin advises
to give a "level 10" correction as this will "make the dog think his
life is going to end". He also advises people in his Question and
Answer section to kick or shock their dogs if they show any
aggression towards people.
This is not the way to train Police Service Dogs as there are better,
more humane ways to do it. Some of these trainers that are mentioned
import an adult dog and then only spend up to 2 months training it
before they sell it. This method turns out the most amount of dogs in
the shortest time. Basically, it is a profit making venture as the
trainers hardly spend any time getting to know the dog's personality
and developing it. The proper method is to raise and develop the dog
from a puppy. It should be conditioned to it's work from puppyhood,
not all of a sudden thrown into training as an adult dog, after it
has developed all of it's habits and mannerisms. It is these dogs
that are imported and trained this way. Thrown into a country and
language that they do not understand and not being allowed to learn
to understand it before they are quickly sold to a department that
may or may not understand it as the handlers only get about the same
amount of time working with the dog. If the trainers would worry less
about the profit they get off the dog and worry more about spending
time acclimating the dog to it's surroundings before trying to work
with it, the dog would do better. A true working dog trainer will
take the time to communicate with the dog, learn it's language, and
does not need such inhumane training aids as a shock collar. These
cruel training methods are the tools of lazy people who do not care
about a living creature, but instead, only care about the almighty
dollar they get.
They are also the ones who dominate the dogs into accepting their
training by whatever means necessary, often at the expense of the
dog's mental soundness. Dogs trained by these methods are never truly
trustworthy around the very people they are supposedly trained to
serve and to protect and there will always be that element of doubt
as to the dog's willingness to rise to the occasion in a real
situation.
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