So, you think there's absolutely NOTHING wrong with the situation? Not how it started in the first place, not what happened during, and not the explanation given afterwards?
That's pretty ignorant to me.
no, what's ignorant is seeing a dog that is going coming back up a leash to eat the guy on the other end, and rushing to proclaim, "i hate cesar, he chokes dogs to the point of unconciousness to traing them" that is ignorant, dramatic and crap. That's not at all what happened.
and No, I don't think how it started was bad at all. I have seen a dog just pulling on a leash, not locked on to another dog that it definitely wanted a piece of, but on me, with a tug toy. The dog turned immediately and went back up the leash at the handler and bit her up pretty good before I could get her off.
The handler did nothing but stand there. Dog's do this, and if it ever happens to you, you better be ready to do exactly as he did, or enjoy your trip to the ER afterwards.
you may not think a dog should be in that position, but even after desensitizing, playing with thresholds, working into a zone while playing or focus with food and all sorts of good things, there may come a time in training or on the street where something just like this can happen. Things aren't always pretty in real life like we can make them sound while trying to train dogs on the internet. and if it does, what are YOU going to do?
wanna debate that a dog shouldn't be in that position, fine, but to take something that happened as a matter of safety and turn it into something else to "prove" your point of view, well sell it to someone else.