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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
For one. He's not my brother(please read!) and 2, I think he has trained over 600 dogs so unless you have some real stats that prove his 35 + years experience is BS I simply can't buy your stats. I'm not sorry to say but I'll take his word over your "science" of dogs twice on Sundays.
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Your brother in law, good lord what a strange thing to nit pick.
Cool he's trained over 600 dogs majority of which according to your post are for RCMP and Military type organizations. Which use certain dogs trained for certain things. I wouldn't let a motorcycle mechanic work on my transmission even though he's a mechanic.
Your brother in law made statements that are factually not true and actually go against almost all information out there, he's wrong. It doesn't matter how much you believe him the statements he made are just not correct and clearly show a bias towards certain breeds. There are people that can make compelling arguments for a flat earth but it doesn't change the fact that they're wrong.
It's clear he's used to training certain dogs for certain things and there are definitely breeds that are more trainable for specific uses.
If a trainer comes out and says that certain breeds, that we've seen trained by amateurs (because let's face it 99% of these dogs are fine) and he says they aren't trainable, they're stupid and useless, he's not a good trainer. Case closed. It doesn't mean he isn't good at training police dogs or dogs for a specific purpose but being an all around dog trainer isn't the job for him.
Pitbulls are considered to be very smart, if I ever heard a trainer say anything like that about a breed I certainly wouldn't hire them. If you're trying to train a bulldog to behave like a police dog of course you would think they are untrainable and not so bright. I don't even own a Pitbull, but I've owned 4 English Bulldogs and I've managed to do everything your brother in law has said isn't possible, and I'm no expert.
They aren't my stats please read! It's a study from Florida.