Patricia McConnell & How Behavioral Science Is Failing Our Dogs Discussions
from Lee Charles Kelley
on Thursday September 2nd, 2010 at 06:14 AM
Dog behavior and training expert, Patricia McConnell, a vocal champion of "the science of how animals learn," recently learned a hard lesson in how ineffective behavioral science techniques really are. The following is comment I attempted to post in reply to her most recent blog, in which she revealed she couldn't solve the behavioral problems of two of her dogs, Will and Hope. I had previously posted links to "The Pushing Exercise" and some of my PsychologyToday.com articles, in the hope that McConnell would read them and apply the exercise, which could very well solve, or at least put a serious dent in the problem. Instead, she chose to give up one of the dogs. Since McConnell has refused to approve my comment for publication, I'm posting it here, verbatim. Patricia McConnell with One...
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