Unusual and Cruel Ways To Train Dogs

Training dogs for a fight isn’t just some good old fashioned take your dog for a walk kind of thing. In fact, it is nothing like that all and the training methods for these dogs is just cruel and unheard of. Most dogs as one would think begin their training at an earlier age so that their mind is trained as well as their body. Some trainers are different than others to where some go to the absolute extreme and some may just do what they feel is enough. Depending on how much experience the dog trainer has, some dogs are trained more viciously and cruel than others, but nonetheless no dog should go through what some of these trainers put them through. Here are some common methods of training before a dog enters the cage to battle his or her opponent: “Treadmill: Dogs are run on the treadmills to increase cardiovascular fitness and endurance.
Catmill/Jenny: Apparatus that looks like a carnival horse walker with several beams jetting out from a central rotating pole. The dogs are chained to one beam and another small animal like a cat, small dog, or rabbit, is harnessed to or hung from another beam. The dogs run in circles, chasing the bait. Once the exercise sessions are over, the dogs are usually rewarded with the bait they had been pursuing.
Weights: Weights are often affixed to chains and dangled from the dogs’ necks. This builds neck and upper body strength. Generally, dogs are permanently chained this way. However, sometimes the trainers run them with their weights attached.
Bait: Animals are tied up while the dogs tear them apart or sometimes they are confined in an area to be chased and mauled by the dogs.
Drugs/Vitamins/Supplements: Dogs are given vitamins, supplements and drugs to condition them for or to incite them to fight. Commonly utilized vitamins, supplements, and drugs include: iron/liver extract; vitamin B-12; Provim; Magnum supplement; hormones (testosterone, Propionate, Repotest, Probolic Oil); weight-gain supplements; creatine monohydrate; speed; steroids (Winstrol V, Dinabol, Equipose); and cocaine.” (Hanna Gibson)
If you read from the list above it is just crazy and horrifying to read some of the methods of training that these dogs are put through. The trainers will get another live animal and throw it in the cage with the trained fighting dog and at that pointy the animal which is the bait is mauled and usually brutally killed by the trained dog. There are many other kinds of training tactics also for the dogs to learn how to attack one another. The trainers will have a leash on two dogs and they will let them lunge toward each other as if they were going to engage in a fight, but they don’t let them touch one another so it is almost like teasing them and angering the dog even more. The most cruel form of training I read about was giving the dog drugs to enhance their size, speed, and endurance all aspects of what will make a dog a so called champion dog fighter. You don't train any dogs to fight, it is an ability stores in their genes to be enhanced by owners like bird dogs, they have it in them, most will, but some won't, all must be treated with respect and trained to enhance abilities.”

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