An "Insult to Stupid"

At the right you'll see the result of, as the content says, suggesting in a Facebook "dog forum" that, in fact, the female dog that birthed the puppies knows best how to raise them.  A violation of the rules.  

Wolves, and their successors dogs, have been around for a few hundred thousand years (see this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_wolf). Humans, and dogs specifically, have been around for twenty (20,000) or more years.

Hundreds of thousands of generations without human help.  My guess is they probably have some idea what they are doing, or they would have gone the way of the Dodo.

If someone struggles to control their dog I suggested they should observe the dogs behavior in the same situation where the mother is involved.  Mother has a mouth, teeth and paws.  That's it.  No smartphone, no computer.  Yet mom, if raised in a normal environment (without human abuse) knows perfectly well how to manage the little cuties.

Is this "adverse"?  Of course not.  It's reality.

Here’s my personal research and background: thirty five years of un-neutered males and females (some but not all).  At least two dozen dogs - many puppies and many liters - dog shows (a hundred or so) up to Westminster (invitation only) - professional (only income) dog handlers including a Westminster winner.  Travels across the eastern US. National specialty shows.

Dogs fights: yes, males, now and then.   All dogs fight if not controlled.  Misbehaving puppies, of course.  All dogs raised by their mothers unless there is some specific reason not too.

No one we’ve encountered along the way, and I mean no one, not even little kids at a dog show would ever believe the no-alpha/alpha disproven stories or the "pandering to the dog" nonsense like this you find on Facebook.  

It’s not the dogs behavior that’s an issue.

Unfortunately, on Facebook, suggesting the dog's familial parents actually know what is going on is considered an "adverse method."

The problem, of course, is that these nimrods people believe that they know better than the dogs how to raise a dog.

Additionally in the same forum, we see the extensive promotion of drugs and spaying/neutering as a way to control dogs.  Not discipline, not you, the human, as the alpha (because the's been "disproven" supposedly).

Academia, the fount of all knowledge, clearly knows best and we should blindly follow.

Though I never seem to have run across any of these academics at dog events over the last four decades. 

I also must confess to laughing at idiots who can't control for these reasons.

(see this older post: https://lwgat.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-parable-of-dog.html)