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So, yeah, regulation could help reduce misleading marketing, fake credentials, fake authority. We cannot pretend that every board and train facility is professional. Some places are great and some places are absolutely disgusting. Dogs sitting in crates all day, not being fed regularly, no supervision, unacceptable training methods, sometimes even poor hygiene or not to mention the medical neglect. Many dogs die in such facilities.

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handler aggression, resource guarding, and they're doing it with no actual expertise, no safety protocols, no liability planning. So I think we all agree here this is dangerous for everybody. Regulation could require basic things. Again, like I said, like safety standards, risk disclosure, insurance requirements, maybe for high-risk cases. So far, it sounds great. Now, here is where I'm going to say the part that nobody either wants to hear or talk about. Most regulations won't stay competency-based. Instead, it will become, eventually, if not immediately, ideology-based. And if you don't understand what I'm saying, let me try to explain. Dog training today is not just about training dogs. It's also about politics. It's about identity. Of course, it's about ideology. And in that environment, regulation will become nothing else but a weapon. Because once regulation is in place, the people who influence it will try to control what's allowed. And what's allowed will not be based on results or realism. It will be based on what someone believes is morally superior. So, instead of regulating, instead of regulation being about competence and welfare standards, it's going to become about banning tools, banning methods, punishment bans. Basically, real training becomes illegal. And that's the danger. And it's very legit danger. My biggest problem with method-based regulation is that it automatically assumes that one training ideology is always enough. It assumes that positive reinforcement alone is always sufficient. It's all we need. However, we know that the belief collapses the moment a trainer has to deal with high-conflict behavior in the real world. Especially when we're talking about stuff like aggression and predation and uncontrolled arousal, dangerous impulsivity. Those that are willing to fight through different positive reinforcement schedules. Those that are genetically designed to go all in whenever the situation presents itself. And I can go on and on on this. When tools or consequences are removed, we don't magically create ethical training. We create dogs who cannot be reliably controlled in situations where control matters. And that leads not to better welfare, but instead endless management, constant restriction, passing dogs from home to home to rescue to shelter. And yeah, eventually being euthanized is on the table.

So, in many cases, the people who push for humane-only regulations end up creating outcomes that are far less humane. And that's the unfortunate irony here. Another problem with regulation is this. Regulation, most of the time, rewards someone doing proper paperwork and not the skill or the expertise of the trainer. It creates a world where the people who succeed are the ones who can fill out forms, check boxes, and, of course, play the politics. Not the trainers who actually can read dog, handle conflicts, build control, build confidence, stop dangerous behaviors, keep dogs stable and accountable and functional. So, yeah, what are we going to end up with? Licensed trainers who still don't know what they're doing. Because being legal doesn't mean being competent. So, yeah, the industry could become safer on paper while actually, actual competence becomes harder to find. Since you're listening to this and you still may believe regulation could help, here is the only model I can support. Regulation must be outcome-based and competency-based, not method-based. What do I mean? Let's regulate safety, let's regulate facility standards, regulate transparency and accountability, regulate public risk. But we cannot legislate ideology. the dog industry doesn't need a government-approved religion. We need real training, real trainers. That's what's about. And here is my answer. If regulation means stopping abuse, stopping frauds, stopping the negligent facilities, requiring safety protocols, holding the trainers accountable for real harm, then yeah, that regulation would be good for dogs, owners, trainers, everybody. But if regulation means let's ban tools, let's ban consequences, let's outlaw effective training because it makes some people uncomfortable, then no. Like, absolutely not. Because that won't protect dogs. That will actually do the opposite. It will sacrifice dogs. In another recent podcast, I challenged the AVSAB and their ridiculous position statement on this with real dogs that were going to be euthanized and now live happy lives. Dogs deserve to be given a chance to succeed instead of being ridden off because an ideology failed to help them. the dog

industry doesn't need more of ideology. We need honesty, we need competence, we need accountability, that's for sure. And it needs people who actually have the ability to take a dog with real serious issues and bring it back into control, quality, stability, that's my position. So, if you agree, share that. If you don't agree, that's fine too, but at least now you know exactly where I stand on regulations. Take care. management management ! management Thank you.