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Tafia	Feb 7 2006, 04:54 PM
Total Gas Bag! Posts: 5,819 Group: Full Members Member #134 Joined: November 17, 2005	RJL Feb 7 2006, 01:05 PM I think the best thing about owning a terrier is their fantastic personalities and zest for life. Why curb that if you can work with it?! Besides- anyone who feels the need to dominate something that doesn't come up to their knee!!!!! :x: I use methods similiar to JF, I also realise that she has, amongst many, become "persona non grata". It also strikes me that those who particularly dislike these methods, by and large don't have a background in terriers. I have no wish to dominate my, or anyone elses dog, infact the results would be disasterous if I did. If using variations of those techniques works, whats your problem if my dogs don't have a problem with it? The normal answer to this question is that because I use similar techniques then I have no way of comparing exactly how distressed my dogs are by it, well bunkum. I'm neither so stupid or near sighted that I can't see the dogs in my house are happy, healthy, well adjusted, jolly individuals. These methods have been described as dangerous, unkind, infact down right foolish when by and large variations have been successfully used (by terrier folk) who've never even heard of JF. I've seen folks condeming JF whilst recommending NILIF - well for the life of me I can't see any great difference between the two. Everything is open to interpretation - you can choose can call it "domination" because thats how "you" choose to interpret it - I call it mutual cooperation. My dogs are neither subsurvient or unhappy, perhaps the least neurotic dogs you could wish to meet - certainly they'd never win an obedience competition but are pleasure to be with.


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