Training

There are certain things that people do when training their animals that might seem cruel to someone who has never trained an animal. We yell at them, shove their noses in shit, and sometimes even hit them, or cause them harm in other ways. This should not be mistaken for abuse. In their natural world, the world that we have destroyed, that they will never live in, inappropriate behavior was met with physical harm. You wander into a strange territory, you'd better not get caught. You try to take someone else's food, and you'd better not get caught. This is all part of the language that you need to learn in order to interact with your pet. They won't know what the word "no" means until you translate it into something that they can understand, and then build an association.

Train"ing, n.

The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education.

Fan training Hort., the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training Hort., the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall spread out laterally in a horizontal direction. -- Training college. See Normal school, under Normal, a. -- Training day, a day on which a military company assembles for drill or parade. [U. S.] -- Training ship, a vessel on board of which boys are trained as sailors.

Syn. -- See Education.

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