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Originally Posted by JoeyP  The reason why "dominance" reduction training is bad is because if you train your dog with aggression you're going to GET aggression back
But to understand how a dog socializes with other dogs and interacts with humans and not understand that they are trying to understand their Place
in a dominance heirarchy is missing a huge chunk of their innate behavior |
Right on the first part you get what you put out.
Dogs interaction with dogs is one thing and it is a family and familys are not heirarchy based.
Niether should healthy human families either.
one day, dad may take the lead and say we are all going to the park but mum decides supper and the kids decide the tv shows. Next day kids decide to go swimming. Dad decides supper and Mum takes the day off. Next day things switch again...
that is fluid, changing and should be flexable control.
in domiacnce training you are the boss. the dog does as it is told or else... the or else is what ever from time out to a beating. But it is not allowed to ask for its needs to be meet.
it does not allowing that dog a bad day for being sick or not comfortable with something or just not wanting to or not able to.
Other thing is if you read a dogs body language wrong you can hurt a dog mentally faster on domince training then postive as you do not give them an out. Ceser does not read body language well enough to be using that kind of training.
There is a great deal of inmate behaviour but if you alway chalk it up to oh he out to take over then you loose a great deal in what is really going on.
with postive you go slow enough to make changes as the dog needs and you do not plow throough them just to get a job done.
You tend to get a dog that is happier and more willing to work and lives longer.
JL