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None Mac cmcgovern 9-22-2015 11:16 AM BY SIGNING YOUR INITIALS ABOVE, YOU ARE STATING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND APPRO Publications None VED THIS WORK. Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 22 No. 893 • October 15 - 28, 2015 3 GUEST COMMENTARY By Jean Regenwether WORDS FROM THE EDITOR by Kathleen McCarthy [email protected] [email protected] It’s Just a Dog … but … Educate Yourself on Four Need-to-Know ow many times have you heard the training and behavior work. Subjects While They Still Matter phrase “It’s just a dog”? But time Karen Pryor was a marine-mammal His certainly changing our opinions trainer who brought her operant skills fter 21 years of publishing, the ancestors, after all, sacrificed their lives. and treatment toward – and our lives with and positive, reward-based methods to depth and breadth of civic disen- First, we must reaffirm that we are – our furry companions. “A dog is a family the dog-training world. Pryor introduced Agagement continues to befuddle created with inherent rights that are ours member” is a good way to describe the dog trainers to clicker-training in the early me, confirming that people get the govern- whether government exists or not. The evolution taking place. 1990s, and showed how positive methods ment they deserve. Everyone senses the United States Constitution protects rights Focusing on “It’s just a dog” suggests of training are highly effective, and far undercurrent of serious trouble afoot in we already have by limiting government’s that dogs are creatures with no ability to more enjoyable, for both dog and owner. this country. But no amount of leaderships’ ability to interfere with those inherent think; they just follow humans around for These are just two individuals among disgraceful conduct, criminal enterprise, rights. That is a core principle that must food and shelter. Consequently, dogs must many who advanced the understanding or wholesale injustice – all of which cause be internalized before we can correct our have no feelings. No joy, no anger, no love, of dog behavior into the science of dog profound suffering for our families, friends, course as a nation. no loss. training. neighbors, co-workers, and community at Each individual has enormous, albeit We are lucky to live in a time in which We have learned that dogs do think. large – rises to a level that produces mean- mostly unused, power in our form of such viewpoints are changing, and huge (Sorry to disappoint those who think ingful activism. Why is that? bottom-up governance; a constitutional kudos must be given to early dog trainers they just love you for the food.) They can Mostly it is because of denial, lack Republic under the rule of law, including, and animal behaviorists for realizing that even think analytically – dogs are very of imagination, laziness, inertia, and but not limited to, the power of the vote, the “dogs have no feelings” argument is good at solving problems – and can be an absurd amount of self-absorption. the power of the purse, and the power of clearly wrong. quite independent in their thinking. Any Ignorance plays a part, but most people the jury. The Bill of Rights secures free Over the past several decades, studies observant person also knows they can are intelligent enough to grasp problems. speech and the press, worship, assembly, have been conducted to determine how count; just take out three treats, give the Instead, they choose to ignore such matters petitions for redress of grievances, due dogs think, learn, and feel, and their dog two treats, and try to get away with it. as a means to absolve themselves from process, and the right to bear arms, to results have been amazing. In the 1980s, Such knowledge has helped dog responsibility head-in-the-sand style. name a few. Read the Bill of Rights and you veterinarian and animal behaviorist Ian training evolve into a practice that Clearly, this is not the American way. Or at will find that it states very clearly, without Dunbar worked extensively with puppies employs more positive methods, with least it didn’t used to be. ambiguity, “Congress shall make no law” under the age of six months, and initiated methods that reward correct behavior No matter how much civic impotence that interferes with the above. off-leash training with great success. His now more commonplace. The days of we claim, there is still plenty we can Is anyone surprised when politicians and pioneering studies on the social lives physical force, punishment, and other individually affect if we are willing bureaucrats readily step in and usurp more and hierarchies of dogs are used today in Continued On Page 13 to sacrifice a bit of convenience.