bellasmomok
Not sure what you have behind you for training nor what books you have read. Your talking to someone with 26 years in with human childern, full time packing a school education to do so, and at least looking at 7 years in part time and full time with dogs. Packing running now 60 books and seninars and classes in dog training and education. Your talking with someone that gets dogs and works and talks with those that are writing the books you and I are a reading on a daily bases.
I ask not rule. All my kids furry or not. They have a right unkless it a saftey concern to complie or not unless we have a dog working and truly aggressive.
So I tend to try and keep it simple in the language cause I can talk over ones head really fast with the education level I have. Now I can start tossing out learning theroy and postive reiforcement and negative reinforcement and postive punishment and negative punishment a whole bunch more if you need me too.
Dogs do what dogs do cause it is in their gene pool and works. It is to make life easy and simple for them and we need rules not them to keep them safe.
Here are a few articles.
DogTown Versus The Dog Whisperer | Dog Star Daily The Alpha Fallacy | Dog Star Daily Establishing Dominance | Dog Star Daily Dog Communication | Dog Star Daily http://www.clickersolutions.com/arti...yth%201-05.doc ClickerSolutions Training Articles -- The History and Misconceptions of Dominance Theory
JL