How you train your dog was once a fairly innocuous decision — to leash or not, to reward with treats or not.
Now, training styles and methods can be as much about identity as efficacy: Are you imposing colonial concepts on your dog?
Are you harming their mental health?
Is your style of training “woke?”In this audio essay, Alicia Wittmeyer shares her journey into the online rabbit hole of dog training and explains why dogs have become the next recruits in America’s culture wars.
(A full transcript of this audio essay will be available midday on the Times website.)
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