[YorkieMother]

Originally Posted by Ladymom

Please don't tell people to do that to their dogs! It can cause a dog to become aggressive and fearful!

"Veterinarians and shelters are seeing the results of this misapplied dominance. As one veterinary behaviorist put it to me at a recent scientific meeting, "A puppy has to submit to whatever the owner does; it has no choice. Then around the age of two comes just one Alpha roll too many, and the dog defends itself at last and tries to take the owner's face off."

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You are absolutely correct in the info you have posted.
It will increase aggression do to causing fear and it will as the pup is so young damage the wiring of the brain and affect the puppy for life as it will go through several fear periods while young.

I would even thin young get the pup on nothing in life is free protocol and also the protocol for relaxation by Karen Overall.

JL