[YorkieMother]

I just remember what I wanted to say and it has been rolling around my brain for a little bit.

Alpha rolling and rough training only teaches learned helplessness and is not a way to bridge the gap betwen you and the dog it teaches it to never think for it self.

'Learned helplessness as a technical term in animal psychology and related human psychology means a condition of a human being or an animal in which it has learned to behave helplessly, even when the opportunity is restored for it to help itself by avoiding an unpleasant or harmful circumstance to which it has been subjected. Learned helplessness theory is the view that clinical depression and related mental illnesses result from a perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation (Seligman, 1975).'

JL