Thread: A new way ahead perhaps?

But I will share one paragraph from the initial article to give some idea of where I am going...
"I realised a few years back that the basic thought process usually applied to training a dog is at odds with the basic composition of a dogs’ thinking. The majority of methods are premised on the belief the dog wants to do things at odds to its handler. However, I knew a dog is pre-programmed by its very nature to want to hunt in a pack collectively for a collectively successful result. I asked the question... “Why can’t we tap into that and have the dog want to hunt with us and for us for a mutually successful result”? It also dawned on me at that time that the very best handlers, whether they would have put in these terms or not... Jim Clarke, Bob Whitehead, Leon Mortenson and more, actually achieved this with their dogs. The best handlers’ dogs were not the most disciplined, not the most drilled or over trained. They simply seemed to have a disposition that lead them hunt with their handler... It seemed almost mythical to me that this could be done, you had to be able to be the second coming of Canis lupus in your DNA to do so and dogs just naturally did this for some people... Rubbish, anyone can do it. It simply requires changing the focus from trying to get the dog to understand us (Impossible) to having us understand the dog!"