Something every dog owner should read!!

**bckrazy** · 06-25-2009, 01:54 AM

Originally Posted by carrie

You are right and you will never get your clear, educated and helpful message across here.

If you have not already, you will be accused of stealing ideas off other behaviourists despite the many years of study and accreditation you have gone through.

The site is, as it says, for pet owners. They have little knowledge or interest in behaviour and do not understand the terminology that you use. You can see that by the responses to your post.

It is really great of you to try to help people who are actually asking for help, they do not understand what you are telling them. "My dog is just not like that!"

We both know that dogs are dogs and people are people but when you get responses that ask if wild dogs lie on comfy rocks?

First of all... old thread... troll alert...

Second of all... how can it be assumed that a member with 1 single post has gone through "many years of study and accreditation"? That assumption is just as presumptuous as the assumption that everyone with a different opinion has little knowledge or interest in behavior and does not understand the decades old and outdated terminology used.

Dogs are DOGS, not wolves. And people are PEOPLE, not dogs, or wolves, or badgers, etc. Dominance is used and abused to explain practically any behavioral problem by "dog psychologists"/negative-training/pack-themed trainers, when a small minority of dogs are truly dominant... they have, after all, been bred for thousands of years to be followers and puppyish for life. A dog who lacks manners, guidance, mental/physical stimulation and just some time from their owners is not automatically a dominant dog. I don't disagree with everything posted - crate training, timed feeding, basic NILIF - that's pretty much a given. But to suggest that my dogs are dominating me because they enjoy furniture, walk ahead of me on loose leashes, and eat at their normal time regardless of when I eat, is just close-minded.