Yesterday, Dog Daddy Augusto DeOliveira failed to appear at his own scheduled meetup. However those who care deeply about the ethical training of dogs showed up and represented!
We continue to remain focused on raising public awareness about the significant issues associated with the methods Augusto uses with the dogs he trains.
As of now, his next planned stop is Toronto, Canada. If anyone has information on his specific Toronto location, we urge you to share it so that we can alert the venue in advance of the risks involved with the practices Augusto regularly conducts during his training sessions.
Canadian Border Services has opened a case file (after independently looking into Augusto’s practices and having their own concerns). They have asked anyone with additional information to submit an anonymous tip – there is a link with instructions for how to do this if you would like: https://Linktr.ee/zakgeorge
Moreover, it appears that @Peerspace is facilitating his venue bookings. We have reached out to them several times without a reply and it appears as though they have no intention of stopping these bookings from continuing which is deeply disturbing given the public safety risk his methods promote. We’ve publicly called on them to request a statement clarifying why they find it acceptable to support someone with a problematic history in both dog training and breeding practices. If you want to reach out to Peerspace, their website for submitting inquiries is available here: https://Linktr.ee/zakgeorge
Augusto has also announced a world tour. Visit the link in my bio to sign petitions and reach out to local media outlets in your area to alert them about this cause, as well as organizations committed to advocating for humane dog training practices.
Together we can continue to make it clear that outdated, harmful dog training practices will not go unchallenged.
For those looking to help us in raising awareness about the methods that are being promoted to the public by this contentious trainer, additional resources and links are available here: https://linktr.ee/zakgeorge
Thank you so much to everyone who continues to stand up for dogs and their people ❤️
Together we can continue to make it clear that outdated, harmful dog training practices will not go unchallenged. More links and info: https://linktr.ee/zakgeorge
Are you going to accept Robert Cabral’s invitation to discuss PR Vs balanced on his podcast? It isn’t fair for your viewers to only hear your views and opinions without proper debate. You fall back on scientific consensus which, in the studies they cite, is weak evidence at best and is inherently flawed with different types of bias (in a lot of cases, response bias). Guidelines also don’t take into account the outlier cases. The outliers I speak of are cases of severe aggression, as well as others such as, well, the highest performing dogs in the world (police and military dogs – which are exclusively trained in a balanced method). Balanced training consists of 95% PR for the most part. It’s not like the dog is getting corrected a million times a day.
Anyways, I think if you really want to support your position, you’d be willing to have a healthy debate. I think Cabral is the perfect person to do that with.
@LilytheRescuePitty they should debate on a neutral forum, ideally live. There’s no point listening to a debate thats edited and presented by a party with a horse in the race.
But more importantly to the specific case in hand: would you call DD’s methods balanced? If you do I think that’s the very problem with balanced training, it’s not definitive enough. Plenty self professed balanced trainers are also against DD’s methods. And he certainly does not seem to be employing 95% PR from what he shows us. Are you implying he’s editing out the rewards? What motivation would he have for that? Sensationalism? Either way it doesn’t seem a helpful way to promote dog handling.
“We scared Dog Daddy away.” Bully for you. Fear free dog trainers proud to be persecutors. Oh the hypocrisy.
@Amy Shaw Yeah, Daniel Audet from Sigma Dogs made videos about how ‘balanced trainers’ are not balanced at all. Daniel uses prongs and ecollars, and work with aggressive and dangerous dogs and he has issues with how compulsion trainers represent themselves on social media
@Amy Shaw No I wouldn’t call his methods balanced. I won’t pretend to know anything about DD”s methods. As I just stated in my reply, balanced training is 95% PR and 5% correction. I’ve never owned a dog or seen a dog with the type of behaviours that DD deals with and we only generally see very few of his videos. Definitely only the successes are shown on his videos (and there are some remarkable transformations, even if you think the methods are appalling, and I do find them hard to watch). We don’t see the failures, because why would he post that. Everyone, including Zak and any other YT trainer, is not going to post their failures.
I didn’t talk about DD at all in my reply, if you noticed. I was just trying to get Zak’s attention regarding the invitation. And Robert would do it as a live broadcast, so no editing.
I find that Zak leans on guidelines/evidence as an absolute and I think that is very misleading to the public he seeks to educate. I’m a physician, and there is a solid mountain of evidence and several guidelines for literally everything i do. And this evidence is of much higher quality – RCT’s, multi-center trials, systemic reviews. Do I follow every single guideline 100% of the time? Absolutely not. Probably about 95% of the time. Critical thinking in separate cases allows me to evaluate that sometimes following the guidelines might not be appropriate, and sometimes will even be harmful to a patient. But when I do veer, I have solid clinical reasons to do so. The same concept can (and should) be translated across to dog training. And that’s what I want to hear these two talk about and discuss. I think both of them owe it to the community they seek to educate.
Thank goodness we finally have someone calling him out for his unethical dog training, and actually doing something about it!!
☕ forgot your drink btw
Well done!
Even if you do not agree with someone, you don’t bully them, the right thing to do would be to sit down and have an adult/civil conversation with that person. I am disappointed…..
Most people have no interest in having a civil conversation with an abuser
@itsonlysoundwe are being loose with the word abuse
Protesting is not bullying.
DOG trainer in Norway here.. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WHAT ALL OF YOU DO!!! Wonderful group there <3 We need to stop these abusers.. And we are watching - from the other side of the world.. MUCH LOVE 🙂
400k dogs a year put down in the US. Worrying about other trainers is for the weak.
@Ryan Robersonso why are you worried?
@Ivy DragonbreathI’m not…zak and others are free to train as they please.
@Ryan Roberson90% of shelter dogs are given up for financial reasons. Vets have already uploaded videos explaining tgry don’t want to euthanize dogs.
If compulsion trainers are so concerned about the welfare of the dogs why are they not talking about housing discrimination, inaccessible healthcare, food insecurities, long work hours, no breaks at work and the myriad of reasons why comes guardians feel compelled to give up. Hmmmm?
@Ryan Roberson Rather weak than abusive..
Thank you for your service young lady
His people showed up….HERE!!! faceless!!!
Bravo!!! 👍👍👍
He probably knew that someone who bought one of his byb dogs was going to be there
❤thankyou❤thankyou❤thankyou❤ for all that you do to END horrible, outdated, abusive, methods used on dogs, that are mislabeled as “training”!!!
Worthy cause. Dont become karens.
That’s what I’m talking about. Taking the fight to them. Love it. You’ve been tight lipped when it comes to those “alpha” trainers and I understand the approach, if anything, this proves that you follow the SCIENCE!! provided by animal experts.
Not hard to identify the “good guy” is in this situation and folks deserve the truth when dealing with these misguided opportunists. You have my sword.
@Lemon LadyGuessing it’s a TikTok thing because it’s difficult to avoid Dog Daddy on TikTok no matter how many times someone swipe away
It’s not, DD put out a video claiming that Zak tried POISON HIS DOGS WITHOUT PROOF Zak is finally fighting back, sorry about the rhyme.@Zarya the Laika
Thanks to all who are protesting Dog Daddy! If he comes to our area, I’ll be right there protesting with the best of ’em.
If Dog Daddy was AT ALL being genuine in supporting his training methods, he needs to look at his community first and find what I have found. A vast number of his followers are animal abuse fetishists and members of forums that are actively working to keep Dog Daddy doing this. The problem is, and why I am being vocal, I believe he is already aware of that. There has been no denouncing of these forums some of his followers are on. None. Just childish retorts and “challenges” and blah blah blah.
The lack of true advocacy for the dogs’ safety and calling out abuses in his own community. As well as lack of careful explanation on why he believes his methods should somehow be acceptable (because he knows he can’t) speaks volumes.
I was there! Yay good job team
This is such a great outcome!! Go protesters and Zak!!
I’m not much for any protests …. I support yours! 100%
Awesome !! M so happy. Well done all of you. Thank you so much for making it possible 💗
Aversive stimulus in the environment and he allowed himself to flee/escape instead of “facing his fears”? If only his dogs were allowed the same courtesy 😔
He doesn’t yell in dog’s faces and act like a lunatic.
Even though it’s not illegal, DD’s extreme training methods are still unethical and wrong. And even though Zak’s reason’s for protest are righteous, harrassing/bullying a single targeted individual is also unethical and wrong.
How about Zak tells DD to take his $50,000 offer and instead donate it to a dog charity of their choosing. He will even match that $50,000. But instead of training reactive dogs in DD’s stressful environment, they will both have a sincere face-to-face discussion about this issue on video, no edits. Zak will no longer be teased for simply hiding behind the camera. And DD will gain more respect for taking a challenge he is not favored to succeed. Who knows, what if Zak actually convinces him to reform and become a much better trainer afterwards?
All viewers will end up being better informed, and will have the freedom to have their own takeaways. At the end of the day, we all just want dogs to have better lives.
Peace.