Help End Aversive & Repressive Training

Our friends at Fur And Fun Behaviour Training are running this campaign called Heart.

Here are some details below and please visit their website to find out more: https://www.furandfun.com/?page=heart

FIRST FRONT: DEPLETING THE EXISTING SUPPLY.

We are well aware that there is a great number of aversive tools in British homes : shock collars, prong collars, martingales, half-check collar, anti-bark devices, air horns and so on. In most cases people have been advised by ill-informed or downright incompetent professionals. We want to have them neutralized. Consequently:

We will buy any aversive tool from anyone who
1) surrenders such tools
2) commits fully to force-free dog training.

No questions will be asked - and no judgement made.

If the tool is not yours but you obtained it from a relative, a neighbour, a stranger that you convinced to surrender it, we will buy it all the same. The practical details can be found at the end of this page.

SECOND FRONT: CAMPAIGNING AND EDUCATING

1) We will fight attempts to block the legal ban of cruel tools such as e-collars
2) We will lobby for shops and chains of shops to pull these devices from their shelves.
3) Commitment to force-free training will be integrated in our T&Cs; we will no longer contract with dog owners who do not fully commit to force-free training.

What is the objective exactly?

Our aim is pretty obvious: even though we understand that the ban of electric shock collars is inevitable, and that the ban of other aversive tools such as prongs is bound to follow, we see two main issues. First, the cogs of law are too slow, and second, it will take a while for the law to be efficiently applied even after it has passed. By giving proper incentive to dog owners to ditch outdated tools, we want to put pressure on unethical professionals, so that they eventually need to change their methods in order to stay in business. You can't really make money promoting ecollars against prey drive, for instance, if your clients sell away their device and try force-free methods instead.

We are not delusional, some dog owners will not switch - however, if every Force-Free trainer could collect half a dozen tools, that would be huge numbers pulled from circulation, the beginnings of a REAL change. More importantly, that will put a huge economical pressure on unskilled trainers still promoting brutal methods coming from the alpha theory.
But even if no-one was to follow us in this initiative, we would still go on with it because each cruel tool taken away is a victory for a dog somewhere.