[crazywiggy]

By physical assault I am referring to every incidence of him causing pain to a dog. Prong collars, choke chains, shock collars and his ridiculous hand-nip thing are all forms of physical violence. Another "technique" he has used is hanging - suspending the dog on its collar until it uses consciousness.

Flooding is a behavioural technique. It basically means you take whatever the dog is reacting to and "flood" his senses with it until he no longer reacts. The human equivalent would be liking taking an arachnaphobic and locking them in a shed full of spiders and letting them scream themselves out until they emotionally shut down.

There is no excuse for abuse in the name of training. Modern, humane trainers have been working for decades to overcome the old "yank and stomp" brigade. They have proved, time and again, that the old methods caused pain, fear, injury, suffering etc - as well as fall out problems such as aggerssion and phobias. They have also shown that harsh techniques are unnecessary - humane methods are usually MORE effective! Now, thanks to Millan being shown all the time and being so popular, people are going to back to the yank and stomp methods.

Will post you a link when I have more time....