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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Just to play devil's advocate here:
I think if you were dragging your cat out from under the couch routinely without the necessary vet treatments, some might think you're just being cruel.
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But it's not so much about how many times the animal gets pulled out of the couch, to stretch the analogy, it's about which cowboy is best at pulling cats out from under the couch, and how to reinforce positive behaviours amongst cowboys. In calf roping, the cowboys are penalized pretty heavily for unnecessarily jerking the calf to the point of the animals feet leaving the ground - much like my hypothetical cat wrangler getting docked points for pulling on the tail.