The ticket from the expired parking meter, the levy from the tax board, the lack of promotion due to tardiness, the crazy interest rate because you messed up on some credit cards.
These are all punishments, and they’re all designed to change behavior. By making you uncomfortable, the goal is to get you to make better, or more desired choices.
If you look around with a discerning eye, you’ll see there’s incentives and de-incentives everywhere. Once again, all with the goal of modifying behavior.
We see this in our own lives and accept it as part of life. But for some reason, we’ve lost the plot with our dogs. We’ve been told they should experience only pleasant things. Life should only be fun, fascinating, and playful.
The nasty punishment stuff, that’s not only unnecessary, but according to “studies” and learned professionals, it’s highly detrimental. It will ruin your dog and your relationship.
It’s funny that what we accept as a universal life principle for ourselves, one that we rely on as a daily guide and teacher for life navigation, we’ve decided is inapplicable to our dogs.
How did something so obvious and so commonplace...and so helpful...become so taboo for the canine ones we love and care so much about?
I think it’s high time we looked at reality, and then took an exceptionally close look at our motivations for eschewing the reality all of nature abides by.
The one without punishment for poor choices, continues the poor choices.
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