Why Dogs Chase Moving Objects - Lee Charles Kelley

[Jigsaw]

This is a blog from Lee Charles Kelley

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Some interesting ideas and thoughts about why our dogs chase moving objects.

[Aidan3]

I'm not often openly critical of people, but psychologytoday.com lost all credibility with me when they gave LCK a platform and unfortunately they lend credibility to LCK that is not deserved. He is a writer of fiction, and presenting fiction as non-fiction in what might be regarded by many as a credible publication only serves to confuse the reader.

[Jigsaw]

Like I said "some interesting ideas"!!! I occasionally run across his blog from other sources and he does seem to run off a little with his own "expertise" and opinions. It seems he gets most of his ideas though from Kevin Behan who espouses some very different ideas about dogs IMO :D such as this piece about YAWNING. I'm not sure that this article can purport to be much else than fiction IMO.

[Aidan3]

Fascinating, entertaining, waffle.

[corvus]

LCK had a short and volatile membership at another forum I'm on. I've been told he has done similar things with dog forums before: joins up, gets into a lot of arguments, talks a lot about things that are completely unfounded in science, gets some people very upset and then vanishes.

I'm going to make myself unpopular by saying I kind of like him. Once you get past the bluster and the more outrageous things he pulls out of nowhere, he's not so bad. I don't read the blog, though. I've found it to be far-fetched, even for him.

I think dog's chase moving objects because the sight of them stimulates the "chase" response - provided arousal is also at a helpful level.

[Jigsaw]

I believe LCK got a lot of people stirred up over comments he made regarding the death of the trainer at Seaworld. He seems to have a liking for waffle!!!! :D

[corvus]

I suspect the only thing to be learnt from that tragic death was to bloody well stop keeping orcas in captivity already. Didn't seem to be taken to heart. But that's a whole other story.

I think he has a liking for the sound of his own voice. But he was the only one at the time that took notice of what I said about hares and encouraged me to apply what my hare had taught me to rearing puppies. For that I will always be forgiving of him.

And I have always liked the "be the moose" analogy from Natural Dog Training. Social pressure is so often ignored in dog training. Of course, they have a kooky explanation for it all involving energy, but so does Cesar Milan. :D There are useful gems of truth in even the most unexpected places.

[Jigsaw]

There are useful gems of truth in even the most unexpected places. :D

And that is why I spend so much time reading and watching everything and anything because you never know what little bit of information you can take away for later! But geez sometimes it is hard to get through the waffle!