There are strong opinions for and against different dog training methods because people project their own feelings about their own upbringings, both positive an

There are strong opinions for and against different dog training methods because people project their own feelings about their own upbringings, both positive and negative, onto their dogs and their own chosen methods for training their dog. Dog training is a proxy for parenting. Our psychological need to convince others to follow our own preferred methods of dog training is a proxy fight for the battle to parent ourselves in a way that is preferable to the way our parents parented us. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.