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Why do we get dogs, then try to prevent them from being dogs for the rest of their lives?
We get dogs, then start punishing them for doing things they are instinctually driven to do. They like pee and poop and use it for communication. But oh, if a dog potties somewhere a person objects to, we smash his face into it, spank him, whap him with a newspaper, yell, stomp, whatever.
Some breeds of dogs have been selected to carry things in their mouths, but oh! If you Golden Retriever starts stealing things, they get beaten, yelled at, kicked, Alpha Rolled, tssted, all kinds of things.
Dogs have been selected for thousands of years to be certain ways. We have selected for prey drive, but not kill drive to create the perfect herding dogs, for example.
But I see your point, I think. We want our dogs to not do certain things at certain times, and punish them to achieve those results? Is that what you were trying to say?
Such as: dogs being hardwired to check out new things in their environment, but when we take our dog to a new place (vet, store, dog trainer) we want them to lay quietly and not sniff, pull, try to visit, etc?
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