The Dominance Myth in Dog Traning Explained

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Often which is walking without pulling a movie featuring the very hyper Zeus. The German Shepherd also updated my step-by-step guide to teaching your dog.

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 I don't even know the said never seen anything like this before. So thank you very much, you know, I'm often asked questions about resolving unwanted behaviors with people's dogs, often from new personnel get the question about how to be a better leader, or how I show my dog that I am the dominant one.

It's important to understand that these terms pack leader dominance alpha all all of that are not really based in science but rather pop culture.

I like to think of things in pre-Internet versus post-Internet and in the pre-Internet age, niche information, like information about dog behavior, like many other things was very limited.

For the average person, and so these terms have more to do with the myths that have survived rather than real science.

 The term output can be traced back to studies on captive walls. Now what we do see instances of what some behaviorists might call dominance and scenarios werewolves are in an unnatural captive environment.

It's a far cry from how a human being with an evolved intelligence unlike any other known species should base their interactions with a domestic dog's dogs and wolves are very very different.

Behaviorally speaking and I'll just that more in the second well first understand that wolves in their natural environment do not expressly alpha traits that many think they do. Rather, their family structure is actually quite similar to ours.

While it may feel like a sound philosophy for some in dog training to explain how the domestic dog listens to the outlet of the fact is, there is no modern science that substantiates these claims.

Furthermore, there is no science to indicate that a domestic dog is dominant, cross species, and in my 11 year career, I've not seen a pattern that would indicate to me of any cross species dominance.

 There are much simpler and more logical explanations for the multitude of behaviors formally attributed to dominance in rare instances where dogs do bite or attack people. This is usually associated with fear or mental illness.

But there's nothing to lead us down the road of attributing this to dominance. If our dog is out of control pulling us down the block, jumping, chewing it has nothing to do with dominance.

These types of dogs are simply high-energy and need an outlet. Remember, dogs or domestic animals bred for thousands of years to work with people we've refined their genetics to favor endless stamina and energy.

As you know, I recommend teaching a polished fluid that in structured exercise as a way to satisfy these dogs is not realistic to expect the super high-energy dog with lots of energy to understand new concepts until you've gotten their energy out on a regular basis.

Not honestly, I think, what many people mean when they say you have to be the pack leader or so your dominance is that you need to be a good leader and teacher is no doubt that you need to be in charge of your dog and your house just as you would with a young child and I have no objection to a person using any language they want.

But here's where the problem lies old-school dog trainers who subscribe to this outdated nonscientific approach with this logic may be unknowingly to use unnecessary force.

After all, the alpha wolf in the wild, will demonstrate through force their alpha status when putting another wolf and check she goes.

So a simple form pop on a leash with a metal or shock collar is just simulating how nature works, they'll say, our dogs may learn at a basic level from force, but they do not drive, at least from a learning perspective.

 Under these conditions. Special collars always address the symptom never address the cause.

 There is no faster way to undermine the intelligence of the dog and to motivate them to learn by teaching them to avoid discomfort.

Wolves are the product of natural selection and dogs are the product of very purposeful artificial selection as a general rule, humans breathe the dogs that are good at taking direction from us, people we are human beings.

 Why would we try and imitate the ancestral wolf traits of the domestic dog who specifically bred to interact with people to train from this mindset is to ignore the entire purpose why the dog even exists if a professional wants to believe in dominance theory for teaching dogs mind, but no matter how much you want to believe.

This does not make it true. It gives us an excuse to undermine the capabilities of our dogs and take a behavior rather than teach a behavior any method that does not directly promote a bond between a person and a dog will have, at best, very mediocre results shocking at all with any collar or popping them with upon collars will promote learning at a very basic level.

For example, you'll notice that those who train with metal colors usually have them on at all times because they work when they're on largely speaking, but because the dog is smart.

The dog understands that the moment you take the collar off they can go back and behave differently non-science that science and for ethics have no place in our industry in the 21st-century.

The deeper we look, the more we are constantly discovering how truly complex and sophisticated dogs are.

If we have it all figured out and reduce our entire ideology on dominant versus submissive, particularly when very smart people and scientists have gone through tremendous efforts over the last half-century to understand dogs at a deeper level than were not doing ourselves or our dogs a good service.

They sure you get excited about training. Don't confuse your dog. Getting excited for getting out of the house and going on a walk for them somehow liking being popped with a choke chain dogs are willing to endure this type of training at the benefit is great enough, as in the case of going for a walk.

That doesn't make a sound approach for a real training strategy rather for these dogs is simply a patch, not a meaningful effective solution.

 I want to be clear, if you bought into this logic and implemented it into your life. I am not saying that you do not love your dog.

 I am not saying that your abusive. My goal is not to insult anybody but to enlighten you and educate. I'm saying that you've been misled.

 The lack of ethical scientific practice in our industry is appalling. Science means nothing unless we share our data and now more than ever we can share our knowledge and that to me is very exciting and all the more reason to be very optimistic.