That you wont 414 rafale bmp 1940s presented it factory big fail for me. Several months ago, dog started exhibiting aggressive behavior. I tried everything, but she had started to scare me. Several weeks after the behavior started, she went into heat. She went through her entire heat cycle growling at anyone who got near her. After her cycle was over, I had her spayed, I think too early. I should have allowed her hormones to level off before i had the surgery done, but no one told meeeee! the growling continued. Then, about two weeks ago, she was growling at me, I sat down on the couch right next to her and no matter how much she growled, I didnt move away. She moved away, and I moved closer. Finally she stopped growling and laid her head on thigh. I then gave her a treat Have no idea what this method would be called, or why I even thought to try it. But she has been fine since Being that the entire premise of the dominant dog was based off of wolf behavior, it's somewhat amazing to me that we have expert wolf researchers here commenting on this blog. But not a lot of the comments reflect what the published researchers have found, ironically. I wonder why that is... Also, the one thing you need to achieve, the most important part of having a relationship with your dog, is trust. It needs to trust you intuitively and completely. It must understand at the most basic of levels that you never cause it harm and that you protect it. Your dog do the same to you return without question because it wants to, basically, make you happy. It wants to please you because you make it happy return with praise or treats or just the emotion you emit. Still, I still think that a quick reminder that he's off track with a small and perfectly timed leash correction is not cruel or unusual punishment. Thanks for a very interesting article and point of view. I have watched The Dog Whisperer the past and have never seen Mr. mostly use the bite hand correction not a painful way, but to surprise the dog out of the unwanted behavior and get him back on track. A quick jerk of the leash to let your dog know he's not supposed to act a certain way during a walk does not seem to me to be a hurtful, dominant action. That being said most of the training I've done with dogs is basically positive Letting a dog know what it can and cannot do is basically a series of repetition until it gets it. experience, once the dog understands what it is you want, the desired behavior is achieved. The idea of the Male Dog cannot be attributed entirely to Schenkel it is actually common sense. Also the idea that for a human to be Dog requires force and intimidation is nonsense. All dog and dog-human packs have a hierarchy. This is established organically and does not require force or intimidation, though it be present. Dogs, and people too for that matter, can sense a hierarchy and their place it. Dogs can usually sense that they are lower the pecking order than all humans, including babies. Of course there are cases where foolish humans allow dogs to believe that they are charge I 't think anything was debunked here. To me it looks like a couple theories on positive reinforcement training were used to say a couple theories on training from the early 1900's are wrong. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I 't recall ever seeing a dog being drowned to teach it not to dig on dog whisperer. I