I never assumed you were asking about MY dog, but my dog happened to be one of those dogs which are not traditionally trained as you insulted and alluded to in your post that would not do as well as a traditionally trained dog. Obviously, if I am directly being insulted on a message board -- and yes, I was directly insulted as per your "spitting cookies" comments that you pulled directly from my post -- I am going to speak up for myself. I was commenting and agreeing on aspects of the article, in which the author referenced many a dog in the HT world as "robotic". I did not make up the term or pull it out of this air. Is that NOT what the thread was about -- discussing the article? The thread was not about discussing the training techniques of specific people on this board.