THE IMPORTANCE OF A BOND BETWEEN MAN & DOG (Yes / No)

[Officially Retired]

A bond is a emotion. Although dogs can sense emotion only humans can comprehend and control it to the fullest. In animals emotion reverts back into a animals INSTINCTS because its all genetically bred into them.

We humans have our emotions/instincts bred into us as well ... and psychiatric institutions all over the world prove that very few humans can really control their emotions well at all either ...

I do not consider love intangible. Love does not affect the dog in his performance , its just that the dog seems to love you that's it as a dogs concept of love is very limited.

We fundamentally disagree. There is nothing on earth more "intangible" than love and the formation of a bond. And if you don't think "how you feel" that day can affect your performance, then your beliefs are in polar opposition to most coaches/athletic experts on earth.

Things like calling the right weight and feed etc. is what I call intangibles as they are scientific facts that have been proven to actually affect/enhance a dogs physical performance to some degree.

Your understanding of the word "intangible" needs revision. Scientific facts are not intangibles. Intangible means "there, but hard to quantify," while a scientific fact is absolutely certain and unambiguous.

Plus what does everyone consider a BOND? To me a bond is when you take in and care for and raise that dog and treat it properly , that's a bond right there. Even if you spend only 5 min. a day with each dog when feeding or picking up dog shit and giving him a good pat on his head that's enough bond right there IMO. Unless some of you feel you need to cuddle with a dog for hours at a time to accomplish that bond? LOL

The bond a man gets from tossing food at his dog is the bare minimal, at best. It is the lazy man's bond.

The bond a man gets from hand-raising his dogs from puppyhood, from schooling and socializing them, from basic training so the dog learns to "pay attention" when the man points to something, to (in many cases) sleeping with that man ... is going to be FAR greater than the bond a man receives from an idiot/unsocialized dog who just gets food thrown at it and put on a mill.

Jack