Come When Dragged
Today’s new-run of For Better or For Worse continues on with the theme of training Farley, which appears to be occupying the week. Oddly enough, I was able to find on-line advice about training a dog which did not, for maybe the first time in the history of this comic strip, say that what one of the Pattersons was doing with Farley the dog was completely wrong-headed and the exact opposite of what any decent or normal pet owner would do. I was shocked. This is the reference and this is what it says:
Begin with the dog on a long leash. It's absolutely important that you are able to enforce your command should the dog refuse to obey. Don't allow your dog to ignore you. If you call a couple of times and the dog ignores you, use the long leash to make the dog come. It will take many repetitions of "Come Here, go play" before the dog is convinced that its freedom is not going to end just because the owner has called.
Not only that website, but this website and this website also agree on this method. Shocking! How could this possibly happen? Lynn has been so consistent about portraying the Pattersons as always doing the wrong thing. I think the only redeeming aspect of it is that by the use of Farley the dog’s “?” response to John and setting the strip up in a humorous light, Lynn Johnston appears to be mocking this style of training. Consequently, it makes perfect sense to me that the method Lynn would mock, would be a worthy and recommended method.
Begin with the dog on a long leash. It's absolutely important that you are able to enforce your command should the dog refuse to obey. Don't allow your dog to ignore you. If you call a couple of times and the dog ignores you, use the long leash to make the dog come. It will take many repetitions of "Come Here, go play" before the dog is convinced that its freedom is not going to end just because the owner has called.
Not only that website, but this website and this website also agree on this method. Shocking! How could this possibly happen? Lynn has been so consistent about portraying the Pattersons as always doing the wrong thing. I think the only redeeming aspect of it is that by the use of Farley the dog’s “?” response to John and setting the strip up in a humorous light, Lynn Johnston appears to be mocking this style of training. Consequently, it makes perfect sense to me that the method Lynn would mock, would be a worthy and recommended method.
posted by howard at 9:47 PM
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I think the only redeeming aspect of it is that by the use of Farley the dog’s “?” response to John and setting the strip up in a humorous light, Lynn Johnston appears to be mocking this style of training. Consequently, it makes perfect sense to me that the method Lynn would mock, would be a worthy and recommended method.
That it does; Lynn has never made any secret of the fact that she will not, under any circumstances. learn things that contradict what she grew up believing. To admit that other people might know more or be right would mean that she is, after all, wrong and we cannot have that.
I think the only redeeming aspect of it is that by the use of Farley the dog’s “?” response to John and setting the strip up in a humorous light, Lynn Johnston appears to be mocking this style of training.
It also allows her to mock John for using this method. If Lynn agreed with this training style, Elly would be the one outside with Farley. Since we know that Farley never really managed to master any training, it's OK for Lynn to show John attempting this training because, ultimately, John failed.
DreadedCandiru2,’
That it does; Lynn has never made any secret of the fact that she will not, under any circumstances. learn things that contradict what she grew up believing.
You’re too hard on Lynn. She learned you can travel with carry-on luggage and take a vacation which doesn’t involve buying things. Those are big steps for her.
forworse,
Since we know that Farley never really managed to master any training, it's OK for Lynn to show John attempting this training because, ultimately, John failed.
That does seem to be the recurring theme. In this strip, Elly says Farley hasn’t been trained properly. In this strip, John’s training is mocked. Ultimately it doesn’t matter, because in this strip, Elly has decided to rewrite history so Farley was easy to train.
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