Anyone watching the one show?

I really cant understand why the bbc have allowed that man to teach a child to take away a bowl of food from a food aggresive jrt and get her to wear wellies to protect her feet! Words fail me!!
 
Caught the ending of it. He did come across as a bit of a muppet, particularly during the interview.

Congratulations, you're sat on the bed. You're the king of behaviour modification and quick fixes. Now please get off the bed before you do something that provokes the incredibly uncomfortable and tense JRT into a bite :confused:

To be fair I didn't see all of it, but that section did have me making my 'wtf r u doin?' face.

ETA- the part with the post made me laugh. All together now... "Tsshk! Tsshk!" Combined with the Cesar love during the interview, methinks the dude with the pearliest of whites has a mini-me :D
 
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I only caught the very end as I had been out battling with Pickle (it takes a hell of a long time to walk 100yards when you have to keep changing direction to get the little sod to walk to heel), but I agree the dog looked incredibly tense and unhappy. I suspect it would not have been beyond snapping when she was stroking it on the bed, but was too scared too while the bloke was there.
 
The bit that worried me most was when THE EXPERT was pushing the snarling, growling and biting jrt away from its food bowl with his feet. He was wearing baseball boot type trainers and how his feet were not bitten I dont know! He then showed the young girl how to do the same thing wearing wellies.,

He went on to talk about how he uses a mixture of method including dominance theory. He is a big fan of ceasar milan.
Just what we need. (NOT)
Have a look on iplayer and tell me its not just me that thinks this is very wrong and dangerous.
 
Have just watched it on iplayer and I'm just horrified. What on earth are the BBC doing having someone like this on this show !!! All these people have now is a ticking time bomb !!
 
Thanks, I was worried it was just me thinking that! I really think the BBC need a kick up the bum for showing that. the trainer was a complete idiot.
 
Think his name was Jorden someone? was so angry didnt catch his full name. Ive never heard of him before. Was on last nights one show about half way through. Cant seem to post link sorry.
 
ditto link please, I saw a brief bit of it the day before, where they were explaining the problems but have to confess I wasnt really watching as was using the dogs on the tv as a training exercise :o Shhhhhhhhhh DG dont tell :p :D WOuld be interested to watch it.
 
christ Id like to see him try that technique with a large breed doing the same, he'd loose his leg!
 
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Yes I thought that. How did he get on tv? I have never heard of him and nothing comes up on google so wher has he come from and why did they put him on tv.
Great way to teach a kid how to get bitten
 
God knows, I dont actually think his training was that bad, he was clearly teaching the owner to be firmer and not let the dog rule the roost, and the dog responded well but the food taking scene made me cringe a lot, thats not a way to deal with food aggression unless you want to end up hurt!
 
My main worry is that he was showing a child how to do it. I really can not understand how the BBC thought it was ok to show it.
I bet hes a friend of someone who works on the one show or something.
Wonder what experience or qualifications hes got.
A cm wanabee.
 
padderpaws said:
Don't rate Ceaser Milan either.
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Nor do I at all! However some people on here do but thats beside the point. This person on the one show was showing a child a very dangerous technique if you can call it that.
As said before if he tried that with a bigger dog he would get hurt and it only takes someone whos seen the show to have a go at themself and disaster could occur.
 
Apparently there have been a lot of complaints about this on the one show facebook page. I have not seen it but im glad its not just me that thinks its wrong.
 
I haven't seen it yet, but everything I've read about it is united in the opinion that this man is a muppet. Most unusual when you consider what a wide range of opinions there normally are on dog training techniques!
 
I've just watched it, or at least up to the bit where the girl went up to the dog in wellies. Hmmm. I didn't have sound, but what 'training' took place there? It seems to me that the dog had the bowl, he seemed to be saying leave, then using his feet to push to dog away. Well, what does 'leave' mean to that dog if no one has taught that command? And what reward does the dog get for leaving? Nothing - it goes back to the bowl, then gets booted off again. So what, from that dog's point of view, is the desired reaction? What does it have to do to get to the food - the reward? It's never made clear to the dog - so what you have, is one confused little dog - who, you notice, takes herself off to an enclosed space - under the table, rather than to her bed - where she feels safer from this stranger who to her is behaving quite inexplicably. I very much doubt that dog is any happier about people approaching her bowl, because nothing of that actually taught her that people approaching her bowl is a good and happy thing to happen, in fact if anything I would expect this issue to resurface in time.

I am still learning about training, and if a client asked me about this my reaction would be to take them straight over to the boss to ask her advice - but surely it would have been better to teach a solid 'leave' well away from the bowl before doing anything else? And then to look at alternate ways of dealing with the food bowl related issues. For example, approaching at a greater distance - too great for her to react - and calling her to you for a high-value treat then allowing her to return to the bowl, and gradually closing that distance down until you are approaching the bowl and putting the high-value treat in. She learns that people going to her bowl are a good thing as a result.

Henry is not a resource-guarder, but this is a similar technique to the one I used to get him to have his bowl taken away (only I didn't have to start from far away) - handy if, for example, I need to add medication and I forget to add it before I give him his food.

That's what I'd try on my own dog, but I wouldn't advise that for a client, I'd want to see what a more experienced person said about it. I sure as hell wouldn't be putting my wellies on though - good grief!
 
If someone kept shoving their foot in my dog's face I'd encourage the dog to bloody bite him. At one point she wasn't even near the bowl or growling and he pushed his foot at her! What an idiot, all he did there was force her into submission no training at all. He should have told them not to let the dog on the bed full stop instead of upsetting the dog then chucking her out the room - confusion or what?

Think the BBC have done enough damage to the dog world without adding to it with this "trainer"
 
I think that the one show still intends to show more of this " trainer " tonight and tomorrow.
This is dispite hundreds of complaints and statements from people like the dogs trust and the kennel club and even the rspca are investigating.
 
echodomino said:
Think the BBC have done enough damage to the dog world without adding to it with this "trainer"
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Amen to that.
The dog looks to have learned begger all,but after a flooding session been forced to supress the problem behaviour.
I wonder if we will ever hear about it attacking the owners over one of the points "adressed" in the show......

Kindness is IMO very underrated, but then firm but fair handling paired with kindnedd and understanding takes time and won't "fix" a dog in a 30 min show.
 
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