He says he is a dog behaviourist.

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Anybody can call themselves a trainer or behaviourist and as demonstrated in the video they don't have to have a clue about either training or behaviour.

It's just as well that the woman recording had better control of her Malinois than he had of his dogs or things could have been very messy.
 
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I'm confused by his comment of knowing what type of owner she is that she has s malanois??? I don't think I've ever met a numpty owner with one of them!
 

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A fair few comments saying she was at fault for taking her dog onto the field if she didn't want off lead dogs running up to her 🙄😡. You just can't fix stupid.

I do despair at those, and the ‘why would you take your nervous/aggressive/reactive dog to a dog walking area’ - as if it resolves them of all responsibility to train and control their dog, and the complete lack of awareness that the entire bloody world now appears to be a ‘dog walking area’. Dogs are walked off lead down my local high street, on country roads, allowed to roam the street in residential areas, there is no escaping them anywhere.
 

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I do despair at those, and the ‘why would you take your nervous/aggressive/reactive dog to a dog walking area’ - as if it resolves them of all responsibility to train and control their dog, and the complete lack of awareness that the entire bloody world now appears to be a ‘dog walking area’. Dogs are walked off lead down my local high street, on country roads, allowed to roam the street in residential areas, there is no escaping them anywhere.

The consensus among some of the simpletons we've run across is that anyone with a reactive dog should be shelling out £20+ a day to rent one of those god-awful "secure" fields that are pretty much always under a layer of mud/crap no matter the time of year.
 

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I have a reactive dog and I live on the edge of a green, so I have to run the gauntlet every time I leave the house, which is at least twice a day. I have noticed people are more respectful as my dog is a German Shepherd. The worst ones are the ones who spend the whole time scrolling their phones, so they don't even notice us (I always just stand and wait as I come out the door, to give people a fair chance of recalling their dog. This also sends a clear message that they need control their dog).
 

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I have one small reactive dog and one over friendly JRT they both have good, but not perfect recall (unless treats are involved). My over friendly JRT is simply called to my side and shown a treat which she has after passing a dog without running over, ditto the reactive one unless it is a large dog when I don't trust him so he goes immediately on lead before they come over. The number of times he is bothered (sniffing and nudging) by much larger dogs is amazing. "Don't worry he won't hurt him he's friendly" is my pet hate phrase. My boy is not always friendly and often pulls faces or growls when approached by unknown dogs. The owners then say "oh it will do my dog good to be told off!". Surely it is not my dogs job to instill manners in their dog. I usually just walk on by with Moti on his lead saying "yours may be friendly but mine is not'". My biggest fear is Moti will growl/snarl at a bigger interfering dog which may then retaliate.
 

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The way I look at it is, if you have so little control that your dog can make distance and come over to my dog, who will be on leash, by my side or between my legs by the time yours gets here, then you are being irresponsible and exposing it to danger, either from her (she will try to bite their face) or me, trying to protect her. For me, it's the same as not being willing or able to call them away from a road or a railway line or a live wire or a poisonous snake or a kicking horse. If you can't do that, keep them on a line (weirdly, shouty dude did have one on a line, how awful must that one be?!).

If you read this and recognise yourself/your dog, hi, you're the problem, it's you :)
 

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The consensus among some of the simpletons we've run across is that anyone with a reactive dog should be shelling out £20+ a day to rent one of those god-awful "secure" fields that are pretty much always under a layer of mud/crap no matter the time of year.

Even if you have your own secure land it's not a guarantee. I have the great privilege of being able to use my mum's place to run and train the dogs, sadly a bit too far away to be frequent but if I'm free at a weekend I know I can go up there and have a safe space to use. Except that I don't think she'd been there a month before encountering the first trespasser, who had climbed over a locked gate and lifted his dog over to enter. 🙄

The owners then say "oh it will do my dog good to be told off!". Surely it is not my dogs job to instill manners in their dog.

This one absolutely boils my piss, they think it's fine to wind up a strange dog to the point it retaliates, to a degree unknown. Absolutely no part of that is a fair transaction. And one day they'll do it to the wrong dog.
 

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This one absolutely boils my piss, they think it's fine to wind up a strange dog to the point it retaliates, to a degree unknown. Absolutely no part of that is a fair transaction. And one day they'll do it to the wrong dog.

Then, of course, it will be someone else's fault. Never their fault. When if only they had they had their rude and pushy dog under control in the first place there wouldn't be a problem.

And it really isn't fair for an on lead dog to be harassed and stressed because of some entitled pr*ck letting their dog get up close and personal with dog who is clearly not inviting contact.
 
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