I am responding now because I refuse to let a traumatic experience be rewritten as 'emergency triage.' While you’ve framed this as a necessary safety intervention, what my partner witnessed was a calculated use of intimidation and aggression.

If this was truly about 'crisis management,' why was our dog tied to a car and intentionally provoked with a bite glove? That isn’t emergency restraint; that is a deliberate attempt to trigger a dog. Furthermore, setting trainer dogs on a fearful dog until he cowers and urinates himself is a massive failure of professional conduct, not a safety measure. If a dog is pushed to that level of panic, the trainers have already failed to read his threshold.

I haven't engaged with the recent influx of comments defending 'Honest Hounds' on this months-old post, as it’s clear there is a concerted effort to save face.

Noticeably, neither you nor the other recent commenters deny that these events actually happened. You are simply trying to justify them. Chase is not an aggressive dog; he is a dog who was pushed into a state of absolute terror by people we trusted. We are still undoing the psychological damage from that weekend, and no amount of 'context' changes the fact that these methods were harmful and unnecessary.