Clever dogs and crazy people with Wendy Graydon The Dog Trainer

There has been a little bit of a ‘ruckus' out there in the dog world lately about the programme ‘Last Chance Dogs'.

The contention lies in the methods used by the television's trainer Gina Voglar and the training that has been done with owners and their dogs.

Some say it is risky the training she uses, but what a brave girl she is!!

Maybe we should all be giving her a small round of applause, as there are not many trainers that will deal with these dogs is there?

The hard nut, aggressive, ball hanging, pit-something dogs that most trainers would avoid!

I do if I can help it.

Good on you Gina for at least having a go.

I also summarise that TV loves a little drama, so there might have been some really good training moments that were cut, as they were probably too good and not enough teeth, growling or dangerous things going on.

Sure I do not think I would grab the skin of a dog and create a biting, grabbing action to get its attention, Gina did and she has the heart of a Lion.

She really tried with the owners, and as I said we did not see everything that went on off camera.

There are so many ways to train a dog for any one thing and I try to get the training to match the owner rather than just sticking to one philosophy.

When you are dealing with a dog that does not even look at you in the first place it is a tough battle to get that first contact so you can start training. I do not think I am against pit ‘whatever', it is a mix of all the factors that ring all the warning bells for me such as usually owned by a young male, has all its reproductive's intact, is not exercised, is over humanised and allowed to do anything it wants adds up to explosive ingredients for something to go wrong.

I have trained a few pitbulls and had really good results, but it is definitely only when the owner comes on board and really knuckles down to treating their ‘wonder child' as if it is a dog.

One of the owners in the programme could not put her dog down no matter how badly behaved it was, and with a child in her household I can imagine what people would have thought of her.

It was a dangerous dog that was out of control. She could not change her thinking about the dog it was her baby/child/dog and you do not put your children down do you?

Well Gina Voglar good luck!

You are going to get alot of flack, but that is the way it is when you become a celebrity, or so I have heard and every one will want to have their opinion about what and how you train these dogs in particular. Nobody else is putting up their hand as far as I can see.