And there are those who consider training with treats “lazy”.
You can’t win.
It’s like training dogs by committee.
If you had spent 24 years with sight hound rescue like I have, there are a LOT of grieving owners who wish they’d had a “lazy” e-collar on their [former] dog.
Life or death situations arise in a millisecond with those breeds.
I don’t care if you’ve trained a sight hound to a CDX or not...when a squirrel runs, they -will- chase it.
It’s wet-wired into them.
On this, we’ll just have to disagree.
I can only state what I have experienced personally.
Anything else is a theory, until I have lived it.
I much prefer Dobe rescue.
*Most* of the time, they stop and come back.
Makes life a lot less stressful.
ha. This made me laugh. You are correct of course.
I don't think of it as training though, more like reinforcing the desired behaviors until they emerge more often.