In the current issue of Wildfowl mag. it has a very interesting article pertaining to dog training in the US. It seems that the Humane Society of the United States and some off shoot organizations are really trying to get bills passed in state legislation's that would end dog training for hunt! Apparently anything that causes a dog discomfort, stress, and pain would be illegal, and how they judge whether the dog is experiencing pain, stress, discomfort is if a human would feel pain, stress, or discomfort. So anything that would cause this would be outlawed, so e-collars, choke chains, underground fences and more. Force fetching would be outlawed. What their doing is basically trying to whittle a way at hunting, one of the many ways that their trying to end hunting.