Is it racist to train a GSD to take commands in German,
Unless you’re German, it’s at least weird and notable, because why? The dog doesn’t speak German, any more than the average USian who calls themself German-American because of that one ancestor who immigrated from Germany 300 years ago.
That’s exactly the point, dog trainers do quite often use commands in other languages so that the dog doesn’t hear the command words in everyday life and gets desensitized to it.
Unless you’re German, it’s at least weird and notable, because why? The dog doesn’t speak German, any more than the average USian who calls themself German-American because of that one ancestor who immigrated from Germany 300 years ago.
That’s exactly the point, dog trainers do quite often use commands in other languages so that the dog doesn’t hear the command words in everyday life and gets desensitized to it.